Hi Toby. Could you have the motherboard RAM voltages running too high for the 1Gb RAM to handle? Compare the BIOS RAM voltage settings for the two boards and ensure that the Zotac board is not running higher voltages. Is the RAM one of the brands and part numbers shown as supported in the motherboard documentation? Regards, Morrie. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Toby Corkindale" <toby.corkindale@strategicdata.com.au> To: "luv-main" <luv-main@luv.asn.au> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 2:49 PM Subject: [luv-main] Stumped - memory compatibility issue?
hey all, I have an issue with some memory that has me stumped.
Due to an upgrade, I had 4x1GB sticks of RAM spare, so I figured I'd put these into another machine of mine that currently only has 1 GB total. (It's a little ITX board for media playback)
However, after putting the new RAM in, the machine won't boot Ubuntu reliably, and memtest+ on the Ubuntu install disc shows up lots of memory errors. The memory was also *extremely* hot when I removed it from the machine. I tried the memory in pairs of two matched sticks at a time.
Returning the memory to original machine, it runs memtest+ with no errors.
Is there some kind of memory incompatibility that I'm unaware of going on here?
The specs:
Machine A, working combination: Motherboard: Intel P35 chipset RAM: 4x 1GB of DDR2-800
Machine B, working combination: Motherboard: Zotac nForce 630i RAM: 2x 512MB of DDR2-667
The latter motherboard says it supports DDR2-800 memory. I moved the CPU over from machine A to B, but that didn't help. I was especially bothered by the RAM getting very hot - I'm pretty sure that's not normal - although that machine is in a very small case without brilliant ventilation. But it was hot after just a few minutes of run time.
I wondered if you had any thoughts?
Thanks, Toby _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list luv-main@lists.luv.asn.au http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main