AB9 Pro DDR2 Problems

External Since: Sep 08, 2007 Posts: 1

Okay I give up, what's the trick? What ddr2 800 memory is compatible with
my AB9 Pro?

I assembled the system a few months ago, used two Corsair ddr2 800 XMS2
512 Mg sticks in DIMM 1 and 2. It ran like a charm, very stable. Then last
week I bought a Corsair 1 gig DDR2 800 stick, put it in DIMM 3. Ran great
for 3 days, then I was plagued by system freezes. Also, when turning the
system on, there would be no post, no video, just a power on light on the
cpu. It would take several tries to get the pc to come up.
I poked around the web for answers, tried upping the DDR2 voltage - that
seemed to work for a while, then back to system freezes. I upgraded the
bios to the latest and greatest from ABIT, but that didn't help either.

I ended up taking the new 1 gig stick out, and returning the bios
settings back to default by resetting the jumper on the mobo. I'd rather
have a stable system with 1 gig of ram than an unstable system with 2 gigs,
although that does tic me off.

Okay, what ddr2 800 sticks of ram do you guys use? Did you do anything to
get it to work? Should I try a second Corsair 1 gig DDR2 800 stick, and put
them in DIMM 1 and 2 and take the 512's out? Buy some slower ram, like ddr2
533, or ddr2 800 from another manufacturor?

External Since: Feb 01, 2006 Posts: 61

The choice is yours..................buy another 1gig of the same ram and
use it with the 1gig stick you have..leaving the 2x512 out
or buy 2 more 512 sticks and leave the 1gig out
the board has problems with different sized ram
peter
"Glenn" <noemail.DeleteThis@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Okay I give up, what's the trick? What ddr2 800 memory is compatible with
> my AB9 Pro?
>
> I assembled the system a few months ago, used two Corsair ddr2 800 XMS2
> 512 Mg sticks in DIMM 1 and 2. It ran like a charm, very stable. Then last
> week I bought a Corsair 1 gig DDR2 800 stick, put it in DIMM 3. Ran great
> for 3 days, then I was plagued by system freezes. Also, when turning the
> system on, there would be no post, no video, just a power on light on the
> cpu. It would take several tries to get the pc to come up.
> I poked around the web for answers, tried upping the DDR2 voltage - that
> seemed to work for a while, then back to system freezes. I upgraded the
> bios to the latest and greatest from ABIT, but that didn't help either.
>
> I ended up taking the new 1 gig stick out, and returning the bios
> settings back to default by resetting the jumper on the mobo. I'd rather
> have a stable system with 1 gig of ram than an unstable system with 2
> gigs,
> although that does tic me off.
>
> Okay, what ddr2 800 sticks of ram do you guys use? Did you do anything to
> get it to work? Should I try a second Corsair 1 gig DDR2 800 stick, and
> put
> them in DIMM 1 and 2 and take the 512's out? Buy some slower ram, like
> ddr2
> 533, or ddr2 800 from another manufacturor?