miku 0 Posted November 28, 2000 Hi, I have an old computer Intel Pentium 200 MMX with a i430TX motherboard. I dont know the manufacturer. Tried to look inside but no go. The bios is American Megatrends. The problem is: When I use both simm and dimm slots of the moterboard windows 2000 crashes on bootup and gives me the erorr "ntdll.dll corrupted" The system shows 64RAM on Startup (32 simm and 32 dimm) When I use each alone, they work perfectly fine. So I was thinking maybe it needeed a biso upgrade. I also tried reinstalling windows. but i can't install it again. It gives me the error "PROCESS_INTIIALIZATION_FAILED" In the DOS part of the setup. Please Help! ARC Share this post Link to post
Widow 0 Posted November 28, 2000 Most boards will not allow you to mix memory like that and run reliably. Personnaly if you really want to use that board just pick up some more dimm memory and be done with it; though win2k will not run that great on a 200 mhz processor, you're better off running win98 or better yet 98lite;(see www.98lite.net), it a stripped down version of 98 runs reasonably well on slower processors........ Share this post Link to post
BladeRunner 0 Posted November 28, 2000 Hiya, I remember this issue well. I used to work for a company here in the UK who manufacturered their own PC's. They used a Chaintech board which had both SIMM & DIMM slots on. After some carefull investigation we found that when both memory systems were used at the same time, the voltage was the same over both banks. MIght not sound like a problem. Except, SIMM's require 5v and DIMM's require 3.3v, the end result is that you are pumping too much voltage through your DIMM's. The advice we had from Chaintech was to never mix the two types of memory. Windows 2000 didn't exist when we sold these motherboards, but it wouldn't suprise me if Win98 wouldn't have any problems, Win2k is just detecting the potential problems and reporting it. Share this post Link to post
