Hi, I had posted about this problem earlier in the Windows OS section. I figured out it's more of a hardware problem. So I have put it here:
I have a MSI motherboard (nforce2 chipset) with an Athlon XP2400+ processor. It was running with 1 GB RAM (2 x 256MB@266MHz + 1 x 512MB@333MHz) till one of the 256MB RAMs died. Now the problem is that XP won't boot with any RAM greater than 256 MB (tried with fresh RAM chips too).
Also setting memory timings by SPD (2.5 3 3 6) causes XP to fail even with 256MB RAM, so have set it to auto (2 2 2 5). I even had to reduce FSB to 100MHz. Memtest passed all tests on 256MB RAM.
Some people have suggested it's a memory controller issue. But I can't pin point it exactly. Could anybody please suggest some way to find out the exact cause. It would be a huge help..
Thanks
I have a MSI motherboard (nforce2 chipset) with an Athlon XP2400+ processor. It was running with 1 GB RAM (2 x 256MB@266MHz + 1 x 512MB@333MHz) till one of the 256MB RAMs died. Now the problem is that XP won't boot with any RAM greater than 256 MB (tried with fresh RAM chips too).
Also setting memory timings by SPD (2.5 3 3 6) causes XP to fail even with 256MB RAM, so have set it to auto (2 2 2 5). I even had to reduce FSB to 100MHz. Memtest passed all tests on 256MB RAM.
Some people have suggested it's a memory controller issue. But I can't pin point it exactly. Could anybody please suggest some way to find out the exact cause. It would be a huge help..
Thanks