This is a post that my friend asked me to list on a forum that "you know is good at hardware stuff". Where better than here?
He will be signing up here later, but he wanted me to get the post on here quickly.
Here goes:
Got my system up and running (amd 3000, 2x256mb OR 2x1gb GeiL value dual chan)
Anyway, when it was running it was sitting with 1 of the 1gb sticks in, but it was refusing to go dual chan with that (it gets kinda confusing after this).
I re-flashed the bios, and after post it failed, no error message. I panic, it won't even read from floppy.
Finally some how it randomly boots and I get into the bios, have a look and everything seems fine, reboot.... uhm, dead again...
Re-boot a few other times and finally manage to get it to boot off the floppy, so I re-flash with a slightly older bios... no change, system still just randomly hanging when I try to boot or to enter the bios settings.
now for the extra weird stuff, with 1x256mb chip the system won't get past post, with 2x256mb chips in dual chan it'll get past post and sometimes (although almost never boot)
Various other memory configurations seem to have completely random effects as to whether or not it'll post or boot.
My thoughts are that perhaps the memory is stuffed, but I can't see how all four chips could go down like that?
Anyone got ANY suggestions?
I think I'm going to head over to a friends and try my ram on his box later on just to see if that's definitely what's fallen over.... I'm at a complete loss and very frustrated!
Ohh, the motherboard is a KN8 Neo2 probably a good thing to mention that! ;D