AMD Opteron 240 on MSI K8T Master2

carlito · n00b Joined: 29 May 2003 Posts: 51 Location: Puerto Rico

Hi to all guys recently i received my AMD Opteron 240 and MSI K8T Master2 motherboard, but i testing it with an 512MB DIMM DDR PC3200 normal not ECC, and the board does not power and give me a couple of beeps. I like to know if someone of you have this board and what type of memory do you recomend or what i'm doing wrong

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d_adams · Apprentice Joined: 20 Oct 2003 Posts: 223

nepenthe · Guru Joined: 14 Jul 2002 Posts: 317 Location: Sanford, ME

yea you have to have ECC ram in there =)

get sirius · Guru Joined: 27 Apr 2002 Posts: 316 Location: Madison, WI

You do need registered memory; whether the registered memory also supports ECC is moot because ECC can always be turned off in BIOS. When shopping for memory, "registered" is the keyword you must look for - this pertains to the actual construction/configuration of the memory stick.

I'm using Corsair PC3200 Registered Low-latency memory, 4x512MB.

carlito · n00b Joined: 29 May 2003 Posts: 51 Location: Puerto Rico

Hi again people i like to know if i can use this kind of memory for my MSI K8T Master2 and the Opteron 240, here are the specifications of the memory:

OCZ Enhanced Latency Series 184 Pin 512MB ECC Registered DDR PC-3200 - Retail

Manufacturer: OCZ
Speed: DDR400(PC3200)
Type: 184 Pin DDR SDRAM
Error Checking: ECC
Registered/Unbuffered: Registered
Cas Latency: 2-2-3-6
Support Voltage: 2.6V
Bandwidth: 3.2GB/s
Organization: 64M x 72 -Bit
Special Features: Specially Engineered and Optimized for the AMD Athlon64 FX platform
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dweigert · Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 7:24 pm Post subject:

Yes, that is fine, you probably want a pair of the dimms to have the best memory access.

Dan
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d_adams · Apprentice Joined: 20 Oct 2003 Posts: 223

I found that I had to separate the ram and put it in slots 1 and 3 to avoid crash errors. Seems to have stopped all my install problems I had before, after moving the second stick into slot 3 instead of 2. I was experiencing lots of fatal errors and kernel panics until I changed it to that config. Even windows wouldn't install correctly at first. Current setup is Win2k, WinXP 64 EE, Gentoo 64 and Suse 9 64 bit. Win2k is for HL2 whenever it gets here (got the ATI 9600 just for it) and WinXP is just for playing/experimenting.
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carlito · n00b Joined: 29 May 2003 Posts: 51 Location: Puerto Rico

Hi guys, im already runing my new Opteron system with the specs i told up here, the gentoo 2004.0 is really fast at 64bit. if someone need advice or questions about the system that i already setup here im to help

Im using ext3 as my file-system and one Nvidia video card with kernel 2.6.3-r2.
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