[obscuredhavoc]

Well, I don't even know if it's possible without some extreme knowledge in programming/technical skills, or some kind of jimmy rigging which I got no clue how to accomplish. My motherboard, a K8v-X SE from asustek, does not support ECC ram... Pity me, I bought two Hynix Pc3200 DDR 400MHZ CL3 ECC 1Gig sticks, for my mother board to max out my ram, and improve my system performance... WELL Apparently my main board doesn't support the ECC...

EVEN THOUGH I have one of the chips currently in my computer, and it's running friggen perfectly fine, like a dream even... I can put both of them in, but it'll boot past the BIOS Post, ask me what system startup options I want... (Safemode, recovery mode normal blahblah ) ...And when I select one. It'll reboot. it does this in a loop, with BOTH of the sticks in there. But with just one, as I said, it'll run fine, and dandy.


My question to all you geniuses, and friggen awesome tech guru's out there... CAN ANYONE HELP ME to make BOTH of them work. I really don't feel like knowing I just wasted 20 some odd dollars down the friggen drain, because of some retarded *** mistake, that the stupid "Memory Optimizer" site told me that the friggen memory would work fine in it...

I'm wondering... If possible, is there way for me to edit the bios for me to get this to work with both sticks? Maybe some tweaks in it already? I'm running the latest bios ASUStek gots for the k8v-x SE motherboard... Is there one I should downgrade to? I'm not too worried about demolishing the computer, as it has a BIOS flash option.. Alt F2 or something... so if I screw the bios over... I can easily revert it back to something else...

Or is there some simple thing I'm overlooking? I seriously just want my friggen 2 GIG! Any of you out there with whatever skills it takes to create whatever needs to be done to make this work... Let me know. Hell, push me in the right direction.. I'll friggen learn architecture if I got to for this crap.


Please, rise to the challenge, help a very broke soul try to turn this oooold system into awesomeness... (Maybe not awesome to ya'll. but to me... best rig i've ever had. )

[obscuredhavoc]

noticed 20 views, no replies. i'm just bumping it pretty much. i saw the post got knocked back to the third page.. This forum is great, I've solved most of my computer issues that have arisen using this place, even without ever posting, this time it required that I did... thanks.

[bigbear]

Your mobo supports ECC ram so no problem there.
Do you have a none ECC stick installed as well as the two ECC sticks?

[obscuredhavoc]

it supports it? No I don't, not anymore. Whenever I do that, install one of my old sticks into it, either an Infineon , or Nspire mixed with the new Hynix chip it will fail to post at all.

[bigbear]

You can not mix ECC with non ECC
http://www.crucial.com/store/listpar...%20SE%20Deluxe

[obscuredhavoc]

I'm not, both of the Hynix chips are 1gb DDR 400MHZ CL3 ECC chips, a matching set to my knowledge. I'm trying to get both of them to work. When I put both of the ECC chips in, the computer will pass the BIOS post, and start to boot... but won't get to the boot screen, it'll just reboot itself constantly... pass bios post, two seconds later, reboot, go through bios post again... pass, reboot.