N force II - what gives!!

[tommo666]

I upgraded to a DFI nfi II ultra infinity board because i was having issues with my old one(long story)

Once i got it working it kept blue screening with page faults. The mem i have is twinmos pc3200 cl2.5 and i had it dual banked. i changed it to normal and i had to dropped the men speed from the default of 200 to 150mhz. ( seems to work)

The cpu is an xp2500 barton core, golden sample i call it, runs at 3200 by default. Set the clock speed to 200 and the multiplier to default.

I've had no exposure to n force boards are they a pain in the butt, i have used via chipset boards in the past and had no prob. Whatever i thrown in them worked.

[Ruslan]

I would rather suspect cheap (read = bad) memory... Cheap memory (never heard of Twinmos memory, by the way) can work fine in one system and give memory errors in another... Brandname memory sticks with Samsung, Infineon, Hyundai and MT chips are usually working fine in any system...
Try to test memory sticks using memory tester (like memtest86.com ,for example) to be sure...

[Silverman]

I agree with Ruslan: TwinMos memory and Nforce2 work well if they are matched pairs (Dual Channel Kit AKATwister) All it takes is for one stick to be off in timings to throw the whole thing in the murky depths of "what the heck is going on here"

[Ferrit]

Agreed cheap or inferior memory is bad news in any Athlon system really.
Quick test would be run on 1 mem stick and see what happens
Nforce was a little buggy but they seem to have that well under control and it wasnt in the mem dept it was the ide controllers that really bit

[tommo666]

Thanks guys,

I've had no problems since turning the speed down and and not dual banking.

I'm not going to buy memory yet, just for those few mhz

http://www.twinmos.com/dram_info.htm