KT600 Dragon Plus v2.0 memory problem

I recently built a system with a KT600 Dragon Plus v2.0 and an AMD
Sempron 2500+ CPU. I used a single 512MB stick of Kingston PC3200 RAM
for several days, with no problems. I bought and installed a second
(identical) stick of RAM. The PC booted and Windows XP (Control
Panel/System) acknowledged the 1024MB of memory. Soon afterwards, I
got a blue screen of death (PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA). Each time I
would re-boot, this failure would occur again. I then tried all
possible one & two stick combinations in the two available DIMM sockets
and found the following:

(1) I can use either of the 512MB sticks alone and everything is fine.
(2) If I fill both sockets, I either can't boot or crash shortly after
booting.

I tested the two sticks separately with memtest86 and discovered no
errors.
Any ideas?

Look at your memory settings in the BIOS. There are sometimes settings that
determine how multiple sticks of ram are handled.

"Paul26134" <> wrote in message
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>I recently built a system with a KT600 Dragon Plus v2.0 and an AMD
> Sempron 2500+ CPU. I used a single 512MB stick of Kingston PC3200 RAM
> for several days, with no problems. I bought and installed a second
> (identical) stick of RAM. The PC booted and Windows XP (Control
> Panel/System) acknowledged the 1024MB of memory. Soon afterwards, I
> got a blue screen of death (PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA). Each time I
> would re-boot, this failure would occur again. I then tried all
> possible one & two stick combinations in the two available DIMM sockets
> and found the following:
>
> (1) I can use either of the 512MB sticks alone and everything is fine.
> (2) If I fill both sockets, I either can't boot or crash shortly after
> booting.
>
> I tested the two sticks separately with memtest86 and discovered no
> errors.
> Any ideas?
>

I had the exact same problem. I changed some bios settings on Tuesday
and haven't had a crash since.

Here's what I changed:
SDRAM Timing by SPD: changed from Enabled to Disabled
SDRAM CAS# Latency: changed from 2.5 to 3.0
SDRAM Bank Interleave: changed from 2-way to 4-way

Hopefully this will work for you.


Paul26134 wrote:
> I recently built a system with a KT600 Dragon Plus v2.0 and an AMD
> Sempron 2500+ CPU. I used a single 512MB stick of Kingston PC3200 RAM
> for several days, with no problems. I bought and installed a second
> (identical) stick of RAM. The PC booted and Windows XP (Control
> Panel/System) acknowledged the 1024MB of memory. Soon afterwards, I
> got a blue screen of death (PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA). Each time I
> would re-boot, this failure would occur again. I then tried all
> possible one & two stick combinations in the two available DIMM sockets
> and found the following:
>
> (1) I can use either of the 512MB sticks alone and everything is fine.
> (2) If I fill both sockets, I either can't boot or crash shortly after
> booting.
>
> I tested the two sticks separately with memtest86 and discovered no
> errors.
> Any ideas?

The thing that Soyo doesn't advertise about that kt600 Dragon board is that if you buy the cheap Kingston memory which is has a latency of 3.0, you will have to slow your memory timings down. Of course, Kingston doesn't see fit to list on the box of said cheap memory that it is crappy 3.0 ram.

Both of these companies have seen better days--ethically and morally speaking. I know I never got my rebate.