Motherboard playing up?

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Schonza

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Ok, Dad's comp is continously rebooting before it gets into windows.

First, here are the system specs:

His comp specs are:
P4 3.0 ghz.
Gigabyte 8IPE1000P2 motherboard.
512mb (2X256 mb) kingston pc3200 @ 2-2-2-6.
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro 256 mb graphics card.
13 GB Seagate HD in IDE.
160 GB Western Digital in SATA1.
Lite-On DVD Burner.

Now, when it does the memory testing it reads 768432k OK and running in single channel. It always ran Dual Channel, and only came up as 524,288K. Is this a memory fault or motherboard fault? I told him to try one RAM stick then the other, but he wouldn't listen.

Any thoughts?
 
schoning16 said:
Ok, Dad's comp is continously rebooting before it gets into windows.

First, here are the system specs:

His comp specs are:
P4 3.0 ghz.
Gigabyte 8IPE1000P2 motherboard.
512mb (2X256 mb) kingston pc3200 @ 2-2-2-6.
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro 256 mb graphics card.
13 GB Seagate HD in IDE.
160 GB Western Digital in SATA1.
Lite-On DVD Burner.

Now, when it does the memory testing it reads 768432k OK and running in single channel. It always ran Dual Channel, and only came up as 524,288K. Is this a memory fault or motherboard fault? I told him to try one RAM stick then the other, but he wouldn't listen.

Any thoughts?
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Sounds like someone added another 256 mb of memory to me. Which is why its running in single channel now instead of dual channel which requires memory to be in pairs.
 
johnb35 said:
Sounds like someone added another 256 mb of memory to me. Which is why its running in single channel now instead of dual channel which requires memory to be in pairs.
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That's what we originally thought but for some reason, there is only two sticks. It is a 512 kit as well..
 
Lock this, or move this thread. I found the problem, one of the RAM sticks kicked the bucket. :S Don't know what Dad is going to do with only 256 mb of RAM... I'll make him buy more. :P
 
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