I did this and was just about to proclaim you the winner, as the machine booted up with 8 gigs! But then I noticed the video card was forcing things to a lower resolution (power saving maybe?)...and when I plugged in a couple of things that hadn't been hooked up yet (speakers and network cable), the machine locked up.
Dang.
Well, 4 gigs is 4 times better than the 1 gig I had before. The computer is now comfortable to use. Anybody wanna buy the 4 gigs I won't be using? I'll throw in a set of two 512 meg sticks as well. :-) $20 for all...they're all confirmed to work if your machine can pump up the power.
Kendric Beachey
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Roger Heflin rogerheflin@gmail.com wrote:
Try using that screen from our post and setting the speed down to as low as possible (probably 533/400), set all of the counts to as high as possible and see if that passes....if the slowest won't work you likely are out of luck to get all of the memory working.
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Kendric Beachey kendric.beachey@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all, thanks for all the feedback.
I hoped to devote some time to this over the weekend but I didn't get enough time to solve it. However, I did manage to pull some more info.
These are the memory modules in question... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820178164 (I ordered two sets of two.)
Also I've attached a photograph of the memory config page in my BIOS. If you take it off of "automatic" there are two manual options. One of them just lets you make changes, while the other, called "aggressive", assigns some values but lets you change them.
I couldn't find any settings for memory voltage, but is that implicit in these settings?
I did toy around with changing some of the settings, mainly forcing it to 667 MHz as that's what the memory is really supposed to be rated for. For the others I tried a few changes but not much as I didn't know what was plausible. Nothing allowed all four sticks to work at once.
If I'd had more time to spend, I'd have done better research on what the settings mean, etc...sorry not to have done so yet.
Kendric Beachey
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Kendric Beachey kendric.beachey@gmail.com wrote:
I just got four 2GB memory modules for my computer (running on 1 GB was starting to try my patience). These were destined for the four slots on my motherboard (Intel DG965RY).
These combinations produce a happily working machine:
any one DIMM in any slot any two DIMMs in any two slots any three DIMMs in any three slots
This combination produces a machine that can't get as far as the BIOS power-on self test:
all four DIMMs in all four slots
It fires up the fans and stuff for about five seconds, then shuts off. Then it waits about five seconds, and fires up again...and it repeats the cycle, endlessly, until I pull the plug.
Has anyone seen this sort of thing before? All of the DIMMs and all of the slots have been proven to work in isolation or combinations up to three...it's just when I try to use all four at once that it conks out.
Kendric Beachey
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