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This is for my HTPC:
Gigabyte GA-8IRXP
Intel P4 1.8Ghz
Crucial 512MB (2x256)
PVR-150MCE
Various NVidia cards
I've been using this box for nearly two years now. After some software updates of my DVR software (SageTV), 512MB wasn't enough. I couldn't watch shows while it was recording. So, I picked up a 1GB Kingston chip and replaced the two Crucials with it.
Everything was fine for about a month and then it started freezing on it. The computer would freeze completely up and I'd have to hard restart it constantly. There was no rhyme or reason, sometimes it would be up for 2 minutes, sometimes for 20 hours, but it eventually froze over and over. No errors in the syslog.
I checked temps, but it never got over 110*F, not even the CPU. I ran memtest86 for 3 hours and everything checked out perfect.
While testing RAM weird things started happening. The CMOS boot screen would be garbled sometimes. It would show an error, but the error message was interlaced with the normal text. And I would occasionally get screens like this:
If I went back to my old Crucial RAM, I would get STOP errors:
So, old RAM consistently gives me that error, new RAM consistently freezes the computer. I'm pulling my hair out and have never been this pissed off at a computer before in my very long career. I'm tempted to just buy an Apple TV
Gigabyte GA-8IRXP
Intel P4 1.8Ghz
Crucial 512MB (2x256)
PVR-150MCE
Various NVidia cards
I've been using this box for nearly two years now. After some software updates of my DVR software (SageTV), 512MB wasn't enough. I couldn't watch shows while it was recording. So, I picked up a 1GB Kingston chip and replaced the two Crucials with it.
Everything was fine for about a month and then it started freezing on it. The computer would freeze completely up and I'd have to hard restart it constantly. There was no rhyme or reason, sometimes it would be up for 2 minutes, sometimes for 20 hours, but it eventually froze over and over. No errors in the syslog.
I checked temps, but it never got over 110*F, not even the CPU. I ran memtest86 for 3 hours and everything checked out perfect.
While testing RAM weird things started happening. The CMOS boot screen would be garbled sometimes. It would show an error, but the error message was interlaced with the normal text. And I would occasionally get screens like this:
If I went back to my old Crucial RAM, I would get STOP errors:
So, old RAM consistently gives me that error, new RAM consistently freezes the computer. I'm pulling my hair out and have never been this pissed off at a computer before in my very long career. I'm tempted to just buy an Apple TV