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Old 08-16-2007   #2 (permalink)
Rick Rogers


 
 

Re: RAM associated blue-screen on boot.

Hi,

I've found on some Asus boards that manually setting the memory timings is
necessary with 4GB or better of memory installed.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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"CaptainJeff" <CaptainJeff@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello all.
>
> Having a little trouble that I hope you can help with. The problem is
> that
> Vista bluescreens with an "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" Stop error code
> 0x0000000A.
>
> The problem is definitely something to do with the RAM, though it is not a
> faulty board. The system boots successfully with three out of the four
> 1GB
> RAM boards installed, though inserting any fourth RAM board causes the
> above
> problem.
>
> My system setup is as follows:
>
> AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 6000+ running at 3.0 GHz
> 4GB of PC4200 RAM across four DDR2 modules
> ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard with BIOS updated to the latest non-beta release
> nVidia GeForce 8800 GTS
>
> Two 500GB SATA drives in a RAID 1 configuration using the motherboard's
> onboard RAID controller
> Two SATA DVD RW drives.
>
> Running Vista Ultimate x64 Version
>
> Any suggestions are welcome. Thank you.


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