Re: [SLE] Cannot install 9.3 or 10.0 with 4GB ram, 2GB fine

On Sun February 19 2006 5:02 pm, Mike Coan wrote:
I have the following setup

Motherboard Epox 9NPA Ultra (nforce4 chiopset)
CPU Athlon 64 3200 Venice Core (Socket 939)
Memory 4 1GB sticks of Rosewill DDR 400
Lite-On DVD-RW
4 Hitachi 80GB SATA II drives
nvidia Geforce 6200 video card.


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Mike, I had similar problems about 4-5 months ago (well documented in
the archives) trying to install my "old" memory on a new MB with Athlon
64 3200.

Would not allow me to install SuSE 9.3 or 10.0 no matter what I did.
Would start the install and then computer would lock.

I could install if I used only 1 of the 2 memory sticks, but those 2
sticks would not work together . They had been purchased months apart,
and from different retailers.

Ran memory tests and nothing showed up wrong.

Sent back the MB and got another, but same problems.

Sent back again and got a different manufacturer's MB and same problems.
Would not install all the way through.

Finally solved the problem by ordering a matched pair of 1 GB memory
sticks. They worked like a charm.

I would suggest that you get 4 matched sticks if you can, or perhaps 2
sets of 2 matched sticks.

As Carl wrote to you memory and MBs seem to be very particular --
sometimes the make nice together and sometimes they won't cooperate.

Good luck!
Gil

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