Hello.
I had to upgrade the ram on this Socket A motherboard based on Nvidia Nforce2 400 Ultra chipset, the Epox 8RDA6+ Pro with already the latest bios available installed, so I bought a pair of F1-3200PHU1-1GBNT sticks, thinking it would be fine since they are ddr1 400, 1 gb size.
I'm a nice skilled pc technician so I know about most of the issues hardware could get, so I normally try memory sticks alone and in every slot to be sure they are fine, prior to install all of the sticks and/or just the dual channel slots: so I tried to install one stick at a time and the motherboard doesn't even P.O.S.T., either with only one stick and with both in every possible configuration (i.e. two sticks in single and dual channel).
The motherboard were running fine with either a Kingston dimm and a Crucial one, both ddr400 1 gb, alone and even mixed (but not in dual channel, naturally).
The CPU installed is a Athlon XP 2500+ Barton core 333 MHz FSB, the motherboard were set to run CPU at his FSB and the RAM following the SPD parameters that set them to 400 MHz, so it were async between them, but I recall to have tried even to set the ram to Auto that syncronize fsb and ram freq. all to no avail, so no POST again (naturally the setting I did, was with the working ram before changing it!).
Luckily the shop where I purchased them refunded me partially (half in money and the other half on a bonus note) so I went to another shop and purchased another Crucial 1gb sitck, that went fine in dual channel with his sibling stick I got weeks ago, but I'm still wondering if this is a known issue so to say if this model isn't compatible with this chipset or even only with this motherboard.
Can anyone answer and maybe explain me?
Thank you in advance.
I had to upgrade the ram on this Socket A motherboard based on Nvidia Nforce2 400 Ultra chipset, the Epox 8RDA6+ Pro with already the latest bios available installed, so I bought a pair of F1-3200PHU1-1GBNT sticks, thinking it would be fine since they are ddr1 400, 1 gb size.
I'm a nice skilled pc technician so I know about most of the issues hardware could get, so I normally try memory sticks alone and in every slot to be sure they are fine, prior to install all of the sticks and/or just the dual channel slots: so I tried to install one stick at a time and the motherboard doesn't even P.O.S.T., either with only one stick and with both in every possible configuration (i.e. two sticks in single and dual channel).
The motherboard were running fine with either a Kingston dimm and a Crucial one, both ddr400 1 gb, alone and even mixed (but not in dual channel, naturally).
The CPU installed is a Athlon XP 2500+ Barton core 333 MHz FSB, the motherboard were set to run CPU at his FSB and the RAM following the SPD parameters that set them to 400 MHz, so it were async between them, but I recall to have tried even to set the ram to Auto that syncronize fsb and ram freq. all to no avail, so no POST again (naturally the setting I did, was with the working ram before changing it!).
Luckily the shop where I purchased them refunded me partially (half in money and the other half on a bonus note) so I went to another shop and purchased another Crucial 1gb sitck, that went fine in dual channel with his sibling stick I got weeks ago, but I'm still wondering if this is a known issue so to say if this model isn't compatible with this chipset or even only with this motherboard.
Can anyone answer and maybe explain me?
Thank you in advance.
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