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I820 (Camino) with 3x RDRAM

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First post, by ApostolCV

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Hello guys!
I'm happy owner of motherboard with sadly known i820 chipset (revision B1).
It's has only two rimm slots for memory.
System are stable and solid . The one issue were found by me in 3DMark2003. System go to reboot in test "Nature". And looks like the problem is at hardware level.
I found old topic from Anandtech where they test many i820 motherboards and noted that motherboard with i820 and 3x slots for RDRAM were enough stable and solid.

Anyway. We know that Intel cancelled mobos with 3x rimms because of bug of data corruption.
I know that boards with i820 are quite rare. And with 3x RDRAM are even more hard to find.
But hope some of you can give to us some feedback. And approve do it have problems or no

Reply 1 of 6, by PcBytes

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What GPU are you using? Could be an issue with the drivers for the GPU you use - I have had 3dMark crash in such a way with some ATI cards (anything in the 7500-9800 range) and usually had to find the right driver for the GPU I was using.

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Reply 2 of 6, by ApostolCV

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PcBytes wrote on 2025-02-08, 12:26:

What GPU are you using? Could be an issue with the drivers for the GPU you use - I have had 3dMark crash in such a way with some ATI cards (anything in the 7500-9800 range) and usually had to find the right driver for the GPU I was using.

I use NVidia FX-series like Quadro FX1100 , FX5900....it couldn't pass this 3DMark test in monent with turtle. Switching to ATI 9800 series do not helps.
No matter Windows 2k or XP

Reply 3 of 6, by PcBytes

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For Radeon 9 series, try Catalyst 6.2 and check if it crashes. I recall having issues with a 9600 crashing on a dual-370 machine and using Catalyst 6.2 fixed all my problems.

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Reply 4 of 6, by ApostolCV

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PcBytes wrote on 2025-02-08, 13:05:

For Radeon 9 series, try Catalyst 6.2 and check if it crashes. I recall having issues with a 9600 crashing on a dual-370 machine and using Catalyst 6.2 fixed all my problems.

Actually i used Catalyst 6.2 like use said.)

Reply 5 of 6, by dionb

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I have an Asus P3C-D that still has three RIMM slots, but the third one is reserved for an "SDRAM memory expansion" card, a riser with an MTH on it and two 168p DIMM slots. According to the manual, you can't put three RIMMs in the board and will get an error message. Of course I tried it, and I got the error message. You also can't combine MTH riser with RIMMs. Tried that too, board wouldn't boot. My only other RDRAM board have 2 (P3C-E) or 4 (2x2, Compaq AP550 with i840) so not able to test there (and the P3C-E isn't booting at all).

Reply 6 of 6, by ApostolCV

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dionb wrote on 2025-02-08, 13:27:

I have an Asus P3C-D that still has three RIMM slots, but the third one is reserved for an "SDRAM memory expansion" card, a riser with an MTH on it and two 168p DIMM slots. According to the manual, you can't put three RIMMs in the board and will get an error message. Of course I tried it, and I got the error message. You also can't combine MTH riser with RIMMs. Tried that too, board wouldn't boot. My only other RDRAM board have 2 (P3C-E) or 4 (2x2, Compaq AP550 with i840) so not able to test there (and the P3C-E isn't booting at all).

Ho-ho-ho, that's interesting that asus had designed board with program limitations.)

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