dogubit

I know it's old by the standards of what most here are using, but it's a new system for me because I'm in a low income range. Not a gamer or heavy user so to speak, just lots of web pages open, music and a dvd to play or burn. Not wanting to overclock just wanting some knowledgeable info from someone and the group here seem to know a lot about memory.

I have a ESC K8M800-M2 v 2.0 motherboard with an AMD Athlon64 3200+ socket 754 CPU, I also have 2 GB of RAM, two sticks @ 1GB each of no name PC3200 400MHz DDR (high density) that was said to work with the MB chipset(VIA) the board supports up to 2GB of RAM.

If I put in the two sticks (and they are the same, no name, 1GB size, sticker ID and look the same) I get BSD most ofthe time at start up and sometimes after booting to dasktop (WinXP Pro) with a string of error that Google tells me is memory related, but offers little insite as to cause other than Memory related. (I have gone down to a bear bones set up also and still happens). I have also reset BIOS, and selected the stable settings and the performance settings and I still get the BSD's

I can put in just one stick and the system runs fine, can do anything with it. I have run Memtest86 v 1.65 with one stick and let it run 24 hours and no errors on ether stick and or slot(only two slots with this MB), but if I put in the two sticks and run Memtest86 It will throw errors at 98% of test 5 every time.

Is there anything I can do to try and get this system to run the two sticks or am I just out of luck?

I've read a lot and see timing and voltages referred to to make unstable RAM, stable, but I have no idea how or what to look for in BIOS to do so , if it can even be done with this MB.

I did flash the BIOS with the latest BIOS upgrade thats offered, but I still get the BSD's.

Thanks for whatever you can offer and I know the risk of cheep RAM, but why would 1 stick work, but with the two it not?

Thanks for reading this novel and any advice you wish to offer.

Proxors

RMA the bad stick and get a new one?

superk

Sounds like something with a dual channel problem. Maybe the chips will only run in single channel mode, or single chips. Certain older boards would run ddr400, but only if there was one chip installed... aside from that it would run 2xddr333 fine and whatnot. Try verifying compatibility.

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