Another SOYO SUcker

[my-republic]

I know, I know... About 9 months ago i bought two motherboards, a SOYO KT-333 dragon ultra and a P4X400 dragon ultra. THe p4x400 works fine. However, as my primary box, the soyo kt-333 recently needed a memory upgrade. I replaced the kingston value ram pc2700 256mb stick with three Mushkin pc2700 512mb sticks and got a slew of bsod. So as an expert (i am being sarcastic) i verified the viability of the memory in my a newer Epox MB machine that is in the making. Much to my happiness, the memory checked out ok. The kt-333 dragon seems to boot well enough and XP seems to see it (in between bsod). When i execute a program or try to open a webpage i get a stop 0x0000050 paging error. WE know that is somewhat consistent with a bad stick of ram, but i checked that out already. Here's the rub. I would say reliability is about 5% when all three sticks are in. When i take out the last one, based on mean time between bsod, it is about 50% reliable. Now when i had the one little 256 stick in it is very happy at about 95% reliabillity with no bsod and the occasional program drop. I would like to know if there is an elephant in the room that maybe i overlooked? Of course the elephant is undoubtedly the decision to puchase a SOYO board. If you care to, please comment or try to help. THanks to all. Glad to be a new member!

[mobo57]

Welcome to Sysopt my-republic. Try running a memory checker such as Memtest86, get it here:
http://majorgeeks.com/downloads26.html
Have you determined if there is an update for your bios? If there is and your memory checks out ok try that.
Kingston is recommend for the KT-333. Don't know if that could be anything. I had problems with Mushkin in my MSI mobo, ended up with Corsair, recommended by MSI.

[my-republic]

Thank you... Glad to be a part of the forum.

I will try the memtest. So far i have gotten the system to work with only two banks of 512. That third bank really f's things up. I did some reversing and swapping of ram in the first two banks. That kinda indicated that the ram was ok. It is just that third slot. Or so it seems.

Later

[mobo57]

I don't know what your using the system for, but you will rarely need over a gig of memory. Right now I am compiling a dvd from a video capture, have M$ Word, Seti, Exporer, I.E 6.0 and a pile of tsr's running in the background and according to task manager my memory usage is running at 320 meg. I don't think I have ever seen it get over 350 or 360. My system is a AMD 3200 @ 12*200 and a gig of Corsair XMS 3200. That much memory comes in handy for video editing etc, but not for much else.

[my-republic]

So far the 1 gig does suffice. But i run a series of programs that all run together. But so far so good.

[causticVapor]

Check the specs... a lot of motherboards don't work well at all with all RAM slots populated, or will only work with them at the lowest speed.

I know, it's obscene.

If that truly is the case, nothing you can do about it.