It could be the motherboard.  I have an Abit bx6 that will only run with a
64MB stick in the first slot. I can put anything else in other slots but it
has to have that 64 in the first. Other BX6's aren't like that, just mine.
Try the 256 stick in all the memory slots.  You don't have to fill them in
order.  You can have just one stick in the 4th slot.

What power supply do you have?  Try tweaking the voltage a couple of 10th's.
AMD's really suck up the output of your power supply. It may be that you
don't have enough to drive the 256 MB memory.

If all that fails why don't you get your money back and by some other type
of ram or if they won't give you your money back try exchanging for two
128's.  Crucial has some good memory at great prices on the internet.  I've
been using Mushkin in my boards for a while.

Ben Moore



----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank R. Brown" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Bad memory? w2k fails to boot with new memory card


> Still having problems...  still looking for help...
>
> I exchanged the 256 MB dimm for the same kind from PNY.
>
> I have exactly the same problem.  The old 128 MB works,
> the 256 MB dimm works neither alone nor in combination
> with the 128 MB dimm.
>
> The failure is always the same.  POST succeeds; w2k blue-screens
> immediately after the screen switches from character-cell to
> graphics mode.
>
> A little more information:
>
> The machine has a creative nvidia geforce 2 video card.
> Why does it always fail right when the video card goes to
> graphics mode?  I'm pretty sure I tried disabling video
> bios shadowing.  Maybe the video card causes a voltage
> dip when it kicks in.
>
> Also, the new 256 MB dimm worked in another machine.
> I believe (not certain) that the second machine was set for
> pc133 memory.   I don't know what the motherboard was.
>
> Some people say that the motherboard just might not like
> that brand of memory.  Would anybody have suggestions
> for a brand of memory that the abit-ka7 might like better?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> I wrote:
>

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