coolio2008
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Hi. Yesterday I put in some 3 x 2gb DDR2 Hynix RAM 667mhz into my motherboard (Asus P5QL-E) and it really isn't working out well right now at all. All the 6gb is getting detected and that part seems to be okay.
Anyway, when I first put it in I was getting a lot of errors with my video (7600GS video card under Vista Business – 32bit) about "nvlddmkm stopped responding". I wasn't too annoyed with those error messages right then because I was just about to put XP-64 on the machine. I also noticed that my USB ports and even PS/2 ports were playing up in the sense that my keyboard + mouse "die" after 2-3 minutes into Vista. By "die" I mean I couldn't use them, nothing lit up on either of them. Another thing I noticed was that my video card was exceedingly hot so I put a fan there to cool it down. I have also checked the RAM with memtest86 and that tested fine.
OK so I tried installing XP-64 on my current Hitachi hard drive but the installation was saying that the hard drive is corrupted, even though Seatools detected it as fine. Just for the sake of it I then put in another hard drive which seems to have made things better (i.e. can install XP-64 on there). I still however think my Hitachi drive is fine because it has been going solid for around 4-5 years.
So I've installed XP and I'm in there but again the same thing, the keyboard + mouse stop responding. I tried both USB and PS/2 ports but to no avail. The machine itself doesn't seem frozen or anything because the screen saver is on and active, it's just nothing in terms of keyboard + mouse.
Right now I'm stuck completely as to what the problem could be, or what I could try to fix things. I'm a big fan of the motherboard, the CPU (E7200) and the 6gb of RAM so I hope nothing in terms of hardware is gone. The power supply in the machine is something crap, and I don't know if that matters? Does a lot of RAM require a more beasty power supply? Any suggestions?
I have also put the old RAM back in from slot 1 and 3 to 2 and 4 and it boots up now whereas when I put the old RAM into slots 1 and 2, I would get nothing in display.
Anyway, when I first put it in I was getting a lot of errors with my video (7600GS video card under Vista Business – 32bit) about "nvlddmkm stopped responding". I wasn't too annoyed with those error messages right then because I was just about to put XP-64 on the machine. I also noticed that my USB ports and even PS/2 ports were playing up in the sense that my keyboard + mouse "die" after 2-3 minutes into Vista. By "die" I mean I couldn't use them, nothing lit up on either of them. Another thing I noticed was that my video card was exceedingly hot so I put a fan there to cool it down. I have also checked the RAM with memtest86 and that tested fine.
OK so I tried installing XP-64 on my current Hitachi hard drive but the installation was saying that the hard drive is corrupted, even though Seatools detected it as fine. Just for the sake of it I then put in another hard drive which seems to have made things better (i.e. can install XP-64 on there). I still however think my Hitachi drive is fine because it has been going solid for around 4-5 years.
So I've installed XP and I'm in there but again the same thing, the keyboard + mouse stop responding. I tried both USB and PS/2 ports but to no avail. The machine itself doesn't seem frozen or anything because the screen saver is on and active, it's just nothing in terms of keyboard + mouse.
Right now I'm stuck completely as to what the problem could be, or what I could try to fix things. I'm a big fan of the motherboard, the CPU (E7200) and the 6gb of RAM so I hope nothing in terms of hardware is gone. The power supply in the machine is something crap, and I don't know if that matters? Does a lot of RAM require a more beasty power supply? Any suggestions?
I have also put the old RAM back in from slot 1 and 3 to 2 and 4 and it boots up now whereas when I put the old RAM into slots 1 and 2, I would get nothing in display.
