Re: looping reboot after 3gigs on dragon2 v2 and XP

On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:13:27 -0400, "a concerned member of the usenet
community" <> wrote:

>Soyo KT880 Dragon2 v.2, XP2900+
>
>The board has 4 slots and supports 4G of memory
>
>Windows XP Home
>
>I took out 2 512 sticks from DimA 1 and DimB 1(as per the manual) and
>replaced them with 3 GSkill PC3200 1G sticks in DimA 1, DimA 2 and DimB 1.
>The BIOS sees all three and reports them in POST. Windows gets past the dual
>boot selection but during the Windows startup splash (*not* the welcome
>screen) the back-and-forth bar halts after only two passes and a blue screen
>flashes faster than I can read (I *think* it says IRQ not less or Equal but
>not following that with any specifics, but I'm not sure and don't want to
>continually reboot it for fear of corrupting something) and the machine
>reboots all the way back to POST.
>
>I took out all but one stick and tried each one on it's own and each are
>good to go. I put only two in (DimA 1 and DimB 1) and she runs fine. I then
>put the two 512 sticks in the other slots and it POSTs OK reporting 3G in
>128bit mode, but XP failed as before.
>
>The three one gig sticks are these:
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>http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231047
>
>
>This machine is *not* set to automatically restart on errors, but it just
>flashes a blue screen too fast to read and reboots anyhow.
>
>I see nothing in the event viewer that is any different than any other day
>and *no* event log is created during the startup.
>
><SIGH>
>
>Suggestions or things I'm not thinking of????
>
Try putting 2 1gig sticks in the B slots and see if it boots, you may
have a mismatch and just either need another 1 gig stick or maybe even
put 2 512 sticks in the b slots and the 2 of the 1gig sticks in the a
slots. I'm thinking paired memory in each slot, currently you have 2
1gig sticks in the a slots and only 1 of the b slots used.
Just because the board sees it correctly does not mean Windows will.
Another option would be to take a different hard drive and with the 3
1gig sticks in load windows from scratch onto the new drive, if it
works than it was Windows giving you the troubles.