On Sat, 25 Sep 2010, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
What memory do you have ? Does it match the motherboard specification ?Memory was my first suspicion. I started with 2x2GB of Kingston memory: spdmem2: DDR3 SDRAM, no ECC, no temp-sensor, 2GB, 1333MHz (PC3-10666) spdmem2: 11 rows, 13 cols, 8 log. banks, 2 phys. banks, 1.500ns cycle time spdmem2: tAA-tRCD-tRP-tRAS: 9-9-9-24 When the problems first manifested, I replaced that with 2x2GB from Corsair: spdmem1: DDR3 SDRAM, no ECC, no temp-sensor, 2GB, 1333MHz (PC3-10666) spdmem1: 12 rows, 13 cols, 8 log. banks, 1 phys. banks, 1.500ns cycle time spdmem1: tAA-tRCD-tRP-tRAS: 8-8-8-24Hum, asus says for the M4A88T-M "AMD AM3 100 and 200 series CPU support up to DDR3 1066MHz" while for the M4A88TD-M EVO/USB3 "Due to CPU spec., AMD 100 and 200 series CPUs support up to DDR3 1066Mhz. With ASUS design, this motherboard can support up to DDR3 1333MHz" so there is a difference between the working and non-working motherboard in this area. Did you try with 1066MHz memory, or to lower the memory speed in the bios (if this is possible, I don't know) ?
I did see that note, but I just assumed that "100 and 200 series" would refer to older CPUs, and that the restriction wouldn't apply to newer, top-of-the-line models!
The BIOS does have a "DRAM Frequency" option, with values of 800, 1067, 1333, and 1600 MHz. I'll give it a try and see if it helps.
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