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nrh62

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:D i just bult a new gaming pc im runing in crossfire moad and my motherbord says it can have 8gb of ram i have 4 gb of pc2 8500 but can only use just two of them thay are one gb a pice i put a 3rd in and my puter crases
my windows is 7-64bit my cpu is a amd+2 q-core 2.5 mhz i have to grafics cards radeon hd 4870 512mb in crossfire moad:eek:
 
What mobo do you have? How many channels? Are you installing it when the comp is powered on? Also I don't want to be rude but please use the spell check. I know for a fact if it is easy to read then alot more people are going to read it, thus getting you more help with your problem.
 
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nrh62 said:
:D i just bult a new gaming pc im runing in crossfire moad and my motherbord says it can have 8gb of ram i have 4 gb of pc2 8500 but can only use just two of them thay are one gb a pice i put a 3rd in and my puter crases
my windows is 7-64bit my cpu is a amd+2 q-core 2.5 mhz i have to grafics cards radeon hd 4870 512mb in crossfire moad:eek:
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Hi nrh62

From what i gather the situation is this, you have a motherboard with 2 sticks of 1 gb ram each making 2 gig in total and when you add a third stick of ram your computer crashes.

First what motherboard are you using as that would give anyone trying to help a start to finding out what the problem is.

Second how long does it take before the computer crashes, and is it always the same length of time after you turn the computer on or is it to do with a program you are trying to run and it only happens when you try to run the program.

For a start it could be(and i stress "could be" as we don't have a lot of information to work with here at the moment)a faulty stick of ram which only comes into play after a program has been activated which requires a decent amount of ram to work. The first thing you want to check is to replace the two sticks of good ram with the third to see if this is the problem(try taking out all the ram remembering which two are the good two and just putting the third one in on its own to see if its faulty). Another thing to consider is are all the ram the same capacity and speed as this can cause the computer to crash if they are different.

Without more information it would be difficult to diagnose the problem.
 
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:eek: Specifications

CPU

AMD® Phenom/Athlon/Sempron in the Socket AM2+ package.
FSB

HyperTransport 3.0 supporting speed up to 2600MHz
Chipset

AMD® 790FX and SB600 Chipset
Main Memory

Supports Dual DDR II 533/667/800/1066
4 DDRII DIMMs (240pin / 1.8V)
Supports a maximum memory size up to 8GB.
Slots

2 mazarine PCI Express x16 slots (PCI Express Bus SPEC V2.0 compliant; supports CrossFire Technology)
2 light-blue PCI Express x16 slots with x8 operations (PCI Express Bus SPEC V2.0 compliant; supports CrossFire Technology)
When 4 PCI Express x16 slots are all installed, the PCIE x 16 lanes will auto arrange form x16/ x0/ x16/ x0 to x8/ x8/ x8/ x8
1 PCI Express x1 slots
2 PCI slots, support 3.3V/ 5V PCI bus Interface.
On-Board IDE

One IDE port by AMD® SB600
Supports Ultra DMA 66/100/133 mode
Supports PIO, Bus Master operation mode
Can connect up to two IDE devices
On-Board SATA

4 SATA II (1~4) ports by AMD® SB600
2 SATA II (5~6) ports by Promise® T3, support SAS ready devices, for storage devices only
2 eSATA ports by Promise® T3, for storage devices only
Supports storage and data transfers at up to 300 MB/s
RAID Function

SATA II 1~4 support RAID 0, 1 and 0+1 mode by AMD® SB600
SATA II 5~6 & 2 eSATA ports support RAID 0, 1 and 0+1 mode by Promise® T3
RAID setup floppy disk is optional depending on the districts. You can download the files from the website to make the setup disk.
Audio

Chipset integrated by Realtek® ALC888/ALC888T
Flexible 8-channel audio with jack sensing
Compliant with Azalia 1.0 Spec
LAN

Realtek PCI-E GbLAN controller 8111B
Integrated Fast Ethernet MAC and PHY in single chip
Supports 10Mb/s, 100Mb/s and 1000Mb/s
Compliance with PCI-Express Bus specification v1.0a
IEEE1394

Chipset integrated by VIA® VT6308P
Transfer rate is up to 400Mbps
Internal I/O Connectors

ATX 24-pin power connector
ATX 4-pin 12V CPU power connector
ATX 4-pin VGA power connector
CPU / System x 4 FAN connectors
CD-in connector
Front panel audio connector
Front panel connector
3 x USB 2.0 connector support additional 6 ports
1 x Floppy disk drive connector
6 x Serial ATA II connectors
1 x ATA133 HD connectors
1 x SPDIF-out header
1 x IEEE1394 connector support additional 1 ports (optional)
1 x Serial port header (optional)
1 x VoIP card header (optional)
1 x floppy disk cable (optional)
Back Panel I/O Ports

1 x PS/2 keyboard
1 x PS/2 mouse
1 x Optical SPDIF out
1 x IEEE1394 Port (optional)
1 x 6 in 1 audio jack
4 x USB 2.0 ports
1 x RJ45 LAN jack
2 x eSATA ports
Dimension

30.5cm(L) x 24.5cm(W) ATX Form Factor
Mounting

9 mounting holes.
Includes

IDE cable
2 x SATA power cable
4 x SATA cable
1 x IEEE1394 bracket
1 x eSATA to SATA cable

my ram is pc2 8500 cross fire certified [email protected] 1066mz all same ram i shut down computer install first stick boot up runs good shut down install #2 stick boots up runs good shut down and install #3 stick boot back up whean windows start screen comes up crass blue screen comes up wath lots of nubers and a memory dump thins trys to re boot now i did nowtus whean i install the two sticks in the same coloer slots it whont do nuthing but can install them side by side and two will run good
:cool::cool:
 
nrh62 said:
:eek: Specifications

CPU

AMD® Phenom/Athlon/Sempron in the Socket AM2+ package.
FSB

HyperTransport 3.0 supporting speed up to 2600MHz
Chipset

AMD® 790FX and SB600 Chipset
Main Memory

Supports Dual DDR II 533/667/800/1066
4 DDRII DIMMs (240pin / 1.8V)
Supports a maximum memory size up to 8GB.
Slots

2 mazarine PCI Express x16 slots (PCI Express Bus SPEC V2.0 compliant; supports CrossFire Technology)
2 light-blue PCI Express x16 slots with x8 operations (PCI Express Bus SPEC V2.0 compliant; supports CrossFire Technology)
When 4 PCI Express x16 slots are all installed, the PCIE x 16 lanes will auto arrange form x16/ x0/ x16/ x0 to x8/ x8/ x8/ x8
1 PCI Express x1 slots
2 PCI slots, support 3.3V/ 5V PCI bus Interface.
On-Board IDE

One IDE port by AMD® SB600
Supports Ultra DMA 66/100/133 mode
Supports PIO, Bus Master operation mode
Can connect up to two IDE devices
On-Board SATA

4 SATA II (1~4) ports by AMD® SB600
2 SATA II (5~6) ports by Promise® T3, support SAS ready devices, for storage devices only
2 eSATA ports by Promise® T3, for storage devices only
Supports storage and data transfers at up to 300 MB/s
RAID Function

SATA II 1~4 support RAID 0, 1 and 0+1 mode by AMD® SB600
SATA II 5~6 & 2 eSATA ports support RAID 0, 1 and 0+1 mode by Promise® T3
RAID setup floppy disk is optional depending on the districts. You can download the files from the website to make the setup disk.
Audio

Chipset integrated by Realtek® ALC888/ALC888T
Flexible 8-channel audio with jack sensing
Compliant with Azalia 1.0 Spec
LAN

Realtek PCI-E GbLAN controller 8111B
Integrated Fast Ethernet MAC and PHY in single chip
Supports 10Mb/s, 100Mb/s and 1000Mb/s
Compliance with PCI-Express Bus specification v1.0a
IEEE1394

Chipset integrated by VIA® VT6308P
Transfer rate is up to 400Mbps
Internal I/O Connectors

ATX 24-pin power connector
ATX 4-pin 12V CPU power connector
ATX 4-pin VGA power connector
CPU / System x 4 FAN connectors
CD-in connector
Front panel audio connector
Front panel connector
3 x USB 2.0 connector support additional 6 ports
1 x Floppy disk drive connector
6 x Serial ATA II connectors
1 x ATA133 HD connectors
1 x SPDIF-out header
1 x IEEE1394 connector support additional 1 ports (optional)
1 x Serial port header (optional)
1 x VoIP card header (optional)
1 x floppy disk cable (optional)
Back Panel I/O Ports

1 x PS/2 keyboard
1 x PS/2 mouse
1 x Optical SPDIF out
1 x IEEE1394 Port (optional)
1 x 6 in 1 audio jack
4 x USB 2.0 ports
1 x RJ45 LAN jack
2 x eSATA ports
Dimension

30.5cm(L) x 24.5cm(W) ATX Form Factor
Mounting

9 mounting holes.
Includes

IDE cable
2 x SATA power cable
4 x SATA cable
1 x IEEE1394 bracket
1 x eSATA to SATA cable

my ram is pc2 8500 cross fire certified [email protected] 1066mz all same ram i shut down computer install first stick boot up runs good shut down install #2 stick boots up runs good shut down and install #3 stick boot back up whean windows start screen comes up crass blue screen comes up wath lots of nubers and a memory dump thins trys to re boot now i did nowtus whean i install the two sticks in the same coloer slots it whont do nuthing but can install them side by side and two will run good
:cool::cool:
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This could be a case of the motherboard requiring 4 sticks of ram to work well, i'm still not sure by what you are saying if you actually took all the ram out and only booted the computer up each time with only 1 stick of ram to find if one is faulty if any. If you are adding a stick each time you boot until the third one is added then this could be tricky to find out, only boot with one stick of ram at a time for now and see if any of them are faulty.

Ram has to be put into the correct slot to work well if at all, if you have got your motherboard book this will say where the ram goes for how many sticks you have. It is strange to hear of 3 sticks of ram as usually you have 2 or 4. If you have got another stick try adding that to see if the system works with 4 sticks of ram in it.

Let me know how you do.

P.S The blue screen with the white writing is know as a blue screen of death or BSOD.

:)
 
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