Crashing to desktop

[wedge22]

Why oh why does my comp crash to the desktop when i install another 512Mb stick of ram giving a total of 1Gb. I have tried 2 different sticks now and still it crashes.I have an SS51G with a 2.26B cpu and 2 sticks of 512mb Samsung DDR PC2700. If i set the mem to safe mode in bios it works fine but as son as i put it in normal mode it crashes.

[wedge22]

has anyone here got any ideas what this could be at all

[Gubbage]

try a windows re-instal ? check the memory voltage make sure it's set the to the right thing

[Ultim8pc]

The SS51G can exhibit this behaviour is running two sticks of RAM with RAM speed @ 333MHz & if using an ATI Radeon GFX card.

[wedge22]

Thats exactly what i have m8 2 sticks of ram,an ati card and it runs at 333mhz, whats the cure???

[BluE-WinG]

FFS I have that too

2 sticks of 512 DDR 333Mhz and Radeon 9700 Pro, I get crashing to desktop all the time. Please tell me there is a fix??

[wedge22]

I am guessing that the fix is to buy one stick of ram mate at 1GB

[Ultim8pc]

Originally posted by wedge22
I am guessing that the fix is to buy one stick of ram mate at 1GB

Depends on your luck - go to one stick & you might be able to run @ 333MHz. I've seen sticks of the same make give differing results.
If you use 266MHz RAM then I've found you can run really agressive memory timings & CAS2.
I have found that the difference in performance in the real world, between 266MHz & 333MHz is undetectable. Even with benchmarks such as 3D Mark 2003 - I get a difference of less than 100 points (3%) when running @266MHz compared to 333MHz. (With both RAM set at the same memory speeds). With aggressive timings @ 266MHz, you can often get better results than 333MHz at 'normal' memory timings.

Hope this helps.

[wedge22]

My comp has now started to crash to desktop even in SAFE mode aAAAArgh