So I built the High End July Gamer's system and... 8(

Well put it together... and had to update the bios to support the 3.6 d 960 so its lil diff but everythin else the same specs. and well I had to take it into a local pc shop which was hell took it up there 3 times... and everytime they gave me a diff reason why it would randomly reset... and the 3rd time I actually got into an arguement with one of them over him not know anything about computers. Well they figured out that it was the ram the 2 one gig sticks clashing on the nforce board was their reasoning saying they just dont like big sticks and that i should go with 4 512 sticks... so atm im stuck with 1 gig of the ram ( just using 1 stick it works with just 1 for some reason but not 2 running together ) anyone else had this prob? I couldnt believe that was what was wrong 8(... I may try to send ram back and swap or just be out the money i guess...

screw that. i'd send the sticks back first.

ya I may... just hate to wait who knows how long 6 weeks b.s. lol ya I may and just hook up old comp till then.

What kind of ram? Post your specs.

kind didnt matter... i have corsair they tried 2 ocz one gig sticks and it did same thing so they tried 4 512's and it ran fine... my quesion is does anyone succesfully run 2 one gig sticks on those nforce boards or whatever.






Intel® Pentium® D Processor 960 3.60GHz, 800MHz FSB, Socket 775, 2x2MB Cache, Dual Core


Asus P5N32-SLI Deluxe nForce4 SLI Intel Edition P4/ Pentium Processor Extreme Edition/ Pentium D 1066FSB LGA775 DDR ATX Motherboard w/Audio, Dual Gigabit LAN, RAID/Serial ATA


Asus EN7900GT TOP GeForce 7900 GT PCI Express 256MB DDR3 Video Card w/Dual DVI-I, VGA & HDTV


Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400 2GB Kit DDR2-800 XMS2-6400 Xtreme Performance Memory


CoolerMaster TAC-T01-EK Wave Master Aluminum Case


Antec TruePower 2.0 EPS12V 550W Power Supply


Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS 320GB Serial ATA 7200RPM Hard Drive w/16MB Buffer

they were putting ram in the right slots when using the gig sticks right? i know usually when using two sticks (or dual chanel) you can't occupy say slot 1 and 2 (or 3 and 4)unless you're using all four slots. it's either using 1 and 3 or 2 and 4. when using two sticks only i know its usually a bad idea to try two slots right next to one another.

n.. we had em right .. dual channelled in slots 1 and 3 ( matchin colors )

most overclockers in Nforce4 MB use 2 1gig chips.

so why would mine reboot all the time with 2 diff brands and same specs 8(

I just dont get it hehe.

if I do by 4 x 512's I wonder which of these I should buy... if the 100 bucks more is worth it really.

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I may just stick with my 1 gig for lil while... though I should send the pair back.

Sorry posted this on the end of the wrong thread!

So this is starting to look similar to Velturevo’s problem. I ran Memtest with two sticks of RAM in and there were 2K+ errors, but there are no errors when I run Memtest with just one 1GB stick.

I have 4 sticks total: 2 OCZ, and 2 Corsair. I had used the OCZ to replace the Corsair because I thought that the Corsair were bad. I tested each stick individually in slot A1, and they all passed Memtest.

When I get home tonight I plan to test a “good” stick in the RAM slots, one slot at a time.

Could this still be a Power Supply issue? It is starting to look to me like it may be a faulty CPU or MB.

It is hard for me to believe that the motherboard can not take 1GB sticks, as the computer experts told Velturevo. Also, I don’t want to have to end up putting in 4 512's.

so far so good... its working now! I posted on the corsair boards and the admin and another guy suggested I take the voltages up to 2.1 but not over and if both sticks worked individual but not together still then I had a slot or cpu issue... I did this and so far working great!

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so far so good... its working now! I posted on the corsair boards and the admin and another guy suggested I take the voltages up to 2.1 but not over and if both sticks worked individual but not together still then I had a slot or cpu issue... I did this and so far working great!

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Ahhh, so thats why. Simple problem really. Your using DDR2 800 sticks, didn't occur to us you could have been running at less than the rated voltage. DDR2-800 sticks need 2.1 volts to run stably, while lower speeds only need 1.8V, adding the second 1 gig stick just pushed the ram over the edge. Why it worked with 4x512mb sticks ? The smaller the capacity, the further you can push it usually. This is why its recommend for overclockers to use 2 sticks of ram instead of 1 stick of ram equivalent in capacity.

Thats the reason why DDR2-800 is becoming a standard, as it needs higher voltage to run let alone boot. Well all better, sorry we couldn't help you out much. Those Corsair board guys think of everything when it comes to memory. :p

At least we affirmed it definitely will work. Well I learned something in ram troubleshooting today.

hehe ya 8)