[Asmithey]

Anyone using an Intel S5000 XVN SATA Mobo? If yes, I have a few questions i'd like to ask you.

Thanks,

Aaron

[Bubbaloo]

Intel S5000 PSL here.

[Asmithey]

Same family. The board I have holds up to 32 gigs of ram. When I install 4 sticks of ram (2 gigs each) my machine will not boot. I know the ram is good. The board recognizes the 8 gigs of total ram in the BIOS. The machine boots to the page where it asks if I want to boot into safe mode. It won't boot into safe mode.

Anyway, I am just curious if anyone has had the same issue.

I have spent manyyyyyyyyyy hours on the phone with Intel. I got no where.

Aaron

[Prowler]

Hi,

I have a S5000 XVN here equiped with 4x 2GB. Did you place the RAM with one slot empty between them? Was the system running fine before the RAM Upgrade?

Prowler

[Prowler]

May I ask you also a question: Did you ever have a bluescreen with "Hardware malfunction"? I have this problem once in a while - but no idea why this happens.

Prowler

[Bubbaloo]

I have not had this problem. Mine has 16 GB in it, but it came pre-assembled and tested.

[Asmithey]

Brian,

Do you have (4) 4gig sticks or 8 2gig sticks? I did build this machine. Saved about 3g's. The ram issue is the only issue I have had with it. But if I can't figure out, it could come back to bite me in the end.

Prowler,

I never got a blue screen. I had the option turned off so the machine would just try and re-boot. After I sent back all the extra ram, Intel then suggested to turn the memory dump screen setting on. This would have given them a chance to figure out what was killing the boot up. A little to late. It may have been because of a hardware incompatibility. I know the extra ram was compatible. It was identical to the 4 gigs I have in the machine now. It is straight from the Intel compatibility list.

[Bubbaloo]

Brian, Do you have (4) 4gig sticks or 8 2gig sticks?

( 8 ) 2gb sticks.

[Asmithey]

May ask what brand of ram you are using.

Thanks,

Aaron

[Bubbaloo]

I'm fairly certain it's Corsair.

[Asmithey]

Can you run win xp pro x64 or Vista Ultimate on your board or do you have to run windows server operating systems?

Thanks.

[Asmithey]

Prowler,

Yes. I did install them in A1,B1,C1,D1 slots having a space in between each stick. The system was running perfectly with just 2 (2gig) sticks, as it now. Just not with 4 (2gig) sticks. I am going to try 2 (4 gig) sticks next.

[iker]

Does your BIOS has a "remap memory" feature?

[Asmithey]

It has an I/O memory map feature which was enabled. Not sure if it is the same thing.

[Becco_UK]

You may need to adjust some system voltages for the extra ram to work correctly - but don't mess unless you are sure what you are doing!