MSI K7N2 Delta ILSR Memory Problems, Help!!

[rotor]

Does anyone have this Mobo as I am doing a build and am trying to get
a stick of Twinmos 400 ddr to run But have sadly failed!
I tried Kingston 333 in two 256 sticks and that bombed out as well.
All that I can get working is A 256 stick of 266 Kingston,with this
the machine runs fine.
The specs are -
MSI K7N2 Delta ILSR Nforce 2 ultra 400 chipset
Athlon Barton 2500 cpu
80g maxtor Hd 100
G-Force 2 Mx 400 64mb Graphics card as the geezer aint playing games.
Any help would be greatly apreciated Thanks.

 

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could be 2 reasons why the twinmos dont work

1st - some mainboards dont like some types of ram - i`d of thought twinmos
would be fine, but it could be 1 of those non-compatability scenarios

2nd - bad twinmos ram.

in either case, can you test it on another pc, or goto the place you bought
from for a test (most decent pc shops sould test kit, they might charge you
a small fee though)

tim

 

[nemo]

could be 2 reasons why the twinmos dont work

1st - some mainboards dont like some types of ram - i`d of thought twinmos
would be fine, but it could be 1 of those non-compatability scenarios

2nd - bad twinmos ram.

in either case, can you test it on another pc, or goto the place you bought
from for a test (most decent pc shops sould test kit, they might charge you
a small fee though)

tim

I have 1.5 g of some strange named 333 in my machine and as a last
resort tried a stick of 512 in the msi board and it worked!!
Left it for a couple of hours for a stress test and all was ok.
I did a swap and stuck the 400 in with my 333 and that works fine but
of course came down to 333 speed,
My old gigabyte board had the same prob, wouldnt work with anything
other than 266 ram which was a pain,But since they upgraded the
northbridges on the latest boards,everything has become stable. Thanks
and yes, its a bad non-compatability prob so readers beware of the
aforementioned board.

 

[John]

Make sure it's not ECC or registered memory because MSI say that the
mboard doesn't like it. The only reason I know is because I'm getting
the same model mboard in a few weeks.

 

[Ric]

Make sure it's not ECC or registered memory because MSI say that the
mboard doesn't like it. The only reason I know is because I'm getting
the same model mboard in a few weeks.

these boards *are* fussy. geil ultra, corsair xms or crucial all work,
every other brand is iffy.
this is the result of buiding about 40 systems on this board with all memory
under the sun...

 

[nemo]

these boards *are* fussy. geil ultra, corsair xms or crucial all work,
every other brand is iffy.
this is the result of buiding about 40 systems on this board with all memory
under the sun...

Thanx Ric These boards are very fussy as you said,

I got some of that ram from pc world, The stuff in the white box and
that worked fine,