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[BSG]DirtyHarry
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+0|6901|France
Hi,

does anyone have a clue or a solution, why BF2 and BF2SF drops after having upgraded RAM from 1 to 2GB? In all other applications on the  box no problem...

Thanks!
AnarkyXtra
BF2s EU Server Admin
+67|7009|Hanging onto the UAV
Can we have the specs of your machine? Motherboard make and RAM brand would be good, specifically.
Zeibach
110% NOOBTUBE
+11|6945|Germany
What is your board?
NF4 boards have the problem, when all 4 banks are full it drops FSB to 333Mhz.
I say wrong timings, go to bios and set down your latency e.g. 2.0 -> 2.5
Or set up the command rate to 2T.
[BSG]DirtyHarry
Member
+0|6901|France
Hi,

My game machine is this one:

Case Shuttle FN45 ATX Flex Format

Mainboard: Shuttle Form Factor Mainboard FN45, Sockel A 400MHz FSB,
8x AGP Slot, 6x USB2, 2xATA133, 3xFirewire,
Chipsatz: nVidia nForce2 Ultra 400 (Southbridge: MCP-T), 6-Kanal AC97 2.2 Codec

CPU: AMD Athlon +3200

RAM: 2x 512 184 Pin DDR400 3200 CL3

Disk: Maxtor 120GB 7200 8MB Cache

Graphics: ATI Readon 9600XT 128MB

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/bizzarro63/photos/lara.htm

So I changed the 2 512MB to 2 1GB ...

thanks
[BSG]DirtyHarry
Member
+0|6901|France
This is what I bought:

OEM DDR-DIMM 1GB, PC-3200
184Pin, 400MHz, CL3

thanks
AnarkyXtra
BF2s EU Server Admin
+67|7009|Hanging onto the UAV
Have you tried it with just one of the 1gb sticks in? It could be faulty RAM, I suppose.
sparklet
Banned
+34|6969|stop corecting my grammer!!!!!
yes dirty slots?
uber73
Member
+188|6973|Brisbane
i love dirty slots... escpecially ones from street corners...

have you got the ram correctly bedded into the ram ports?  i mean, ram needs to be paired, its not simply a matter of filling all 4 (u have 4?) slots with whatever ram u have.  u need to pair them, usually into 2x2. your mobo manual should explain.. make sure that you havent inadvertently tinkered with any ram settings on bios also..


if u in doubt, reset to default and try that.
AnarkyXtra
BF2s EU Server Admin
+67|7009|Hanging onto the UAV
Actually you don't NEED to pair them unless you're intending to run them as dual channel. It does, however, help if all the sticks are the same make.
[BSG]DirtyHarry
Member
+0|6901|France
Thanks folks, the FN45 board has only 2 RAM slots... so not too much to do wrong... but I'll try one by one... could be one faulty.... hmmm?
-_{MoW}_-Assasin
Member
+13|6950|Australia

Zeibach wrote:

NF4 boards have the problem, when all 4 banks are full it drops FSB to 333Mhz.
I say wrong timings, go to bios and set down your latency e.g. 2.0 -> 2.5
No they dont, they stay at 400, and why raise CAS from 2.0 to 2.5? unless ur buying inferior ram

and the 2T command rate is needed no matter what when you have more than 2 stix, if you dont set to 2t it wont boot anyway

Last edited by -_{MoW}_-Assasin (2006-02-15 01:59:28)

Skruples
Mod Incarnate
+234|6922
As other people have mentioned, your memory timings are probably set incorrectly in the BIOS. Most motherboards will not detect the proper speed of ram, especially if you change from one type to another. Find out the timings on the RAM you put in (I'm assuming you put two identical sticks in).

There will be 5 important numbers. The speed of the ram, which should be something like pc3200/ddr400, and 4 numbers, IE: 3.3.3.8. The first number is the speed the ram will operate at, the other 4 are the internal timings in the ram itself.  The 4 numbers refer to: CAS/tRCD/tRP/tRAS. You dont actually need to know what that stands for, but its important the settings in the motherboard memory section are identical to whatever your RAM is designed to operate with.

If you've been overclocking, then your computer may be trying to operate the RAM at a faster speed than its designed to. The front side bus determines how fast your RAM will be, so if you've been pumping the FSB up and havent decreased the mhz speed on your ram, it will cause problems. I don't really need to get into that very much, suffice it to say if you've changed your FSB in any way, set it back to default and see if that works.

Also, have you tried running other programs? Do they have the same problem or do they run ok?
Nikola Bathory
Karkand T-90 0wnage
+163|7008|Bulgaria

[BSG]DirtyHarry wrote:

Thanks folks, the FN45 board has only 2 RAM slots... so not too much to do wrong... but I'll try one by one... could be one faulty.... hmmm?
off -topic: was it you that was on my team in ans Austrian 64 server several minutes ago? the map was Wake. We were both Chinese, I got the jet, u arrived and stood in front of it. u forced me to TK you, then u punished me !! How lame!
It it was you (and not another dirtyharry) then I just want to say: fuck you, n00b!!
[BSG]DirtyHarry
Member
+0|6901|France
Nikola... no... I'm working.... so not me ;-)

@Skruples... thanks for the hint.... I'll check this evening my bios settings and the number on the RAMs....

THANKS
Nikola Bathory
Karkand T-90 0wnage
+163|7008|Bulgaria
oh, OK, sorry then
[BSG]DirtyHarry
Member
+0|6901|France
@Skrupules... thanks for you infos. Now it's working about 1 hour... but then also dropping out just with a black-screen... ;-((( and rebooting.... buff.. So I've to review the speed settings another time... I've just adapted the 3rst number (CAS) which is 3 on the RAM. Of course I was in a "slight" overclocking mode... to get more out of the box... so yesterday I put it back to "optimal" mode... but obviously not good enough for these RAMs.

Yesterday I ripped the 2 RAMs off again... to get a few hours of game.... !!!! hehehehe...

Cheers
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