nammtar Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 Hi there... Since I'm using VMware a lot lately, I wanted to upgrade my systems memory from 1GB to 2GB. At the moment, I have 2 DIMMs of 512MB: 2x Corsair ValueRAM VS512MB400 Since my motherboard is a MSI KT6Delta LSR, I only have 3 DIMM slots. So I bought a Corsair ValueRAM VS1GB400C3 and tried to add that to my system. When I tried that, my system would barely boot into Windows XP, before it spontaneously resetted. It kept doing this consistently after about 1-2 minutes. Since the 1GB DIMM is CAS3 I checked my BIOS. It was indeed wrong, so I manually set it to CAS3. But to no avail, the system kept resetting spontaneously. I then tries swapping the DIMMs, so the 1GB DIMM was in the first slot. No results, the system just kept on resetting. I suspect this is an issue with the 512MB DIMMs being CAS2.5 and the 1GB DIMM being CAS3. Is that right? And if so, how can I set it up so it will work? Or, if this can't be done, what 1GB DIMM should I buy instead? I would appreciate a quick response, since I have 8 days left to return the DIMM and buy another if that is what should be done :) Thanks in advance! Tim Jansma. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabberwok Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 Well, your motherboard only supports 4 banks at 400MHz, And you're trying to force 6 banks. If you want to use all this ram you'll have to lower the speed to 333MHz, sorry... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nammtar Posted December 22, 2005 Author Share Posted December 22, 2005 Hmm, I hope that's not so... according to the tables from my motherboard manual (see the attachments, especially the clk_support_matrix.gif), 6 banks _should_ be supported. Not that I'm trying to be argumentative or something, but are you sure you're right about that? I mean, if that's what it takes to get it working, I'll be happy to do so, but just wanna make sure I'll be left with a stable system :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted December 22, 2005 Corsair Employee Share Posted December 22, 2005 That list or image loooks to show Single sided or ranked modules and all 512 Meg and larger moldules would be double sided. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabberwok Posted December 23, 2005 Share Posted December 23, 2005 http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=474 Scroll down to 'Main Memory';): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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