P4C800-ED Memory Problem

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I've been suffering spontaneous reboots for a while whenever I have intense
disk activity, either transferring between disks (I have four Western
Digital Raptor 36.7GB SATA drives connected to the ICH5 and Promise
controllers, both configured as RAID 0) or across the network.

I've discovered that the system becomes stable if I remove one of my matched
pairs of Corsair CMX512-3200LL DIMMs, reducing the total RAM from two gig to
one gig.

These DIMMs appear on the qualified vendor list for the board, but it does
specify "Max DIMMs 2", so I guess this is probably my problem.

Does anyone else have four DIMMs (2 gig) functioning succesfully on this
board, Corsair or other brand?
 
4 x Corsair TWINX 3700 512 MB (matched pairs) runs fine on mine.

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Are you running disk arrays on both Intel and Promise controllers? That
seems to be linked to the problem. Are there any particular settings you
have made in bios?

Thanks for your comments.
 
Yes on RAID 0 arrays on both controllers. Each port (4) has a Raptor hanging
off it. BIOS settings for memory is "auto" SPD. I have PAT turned on.
Everything else is default. No overclocking.

system specs:
CASE: ENERMAX|12BSERV CS-10181-B
POWER SUPPLY: ANTEC TRUE550
MB: P4C800-E DELUXE CANTERWOOD
CPU: P4/3.0CGHz, 800M 478P/512K
CPU FAN: ZALMAN CNPS7000-CU
DDRAM: 2 x 1GB TWINX1024-3700 (4 x 512 sticks)
VGA: EVGA|FX5900 ULTRA 256-A8-N328
FD: 1.44MB|MITSUMI #D359M3D BLACK
HD: 4 x 36GB|WD 10,000 WD360GD 8MB
DVD+RW: 2 x PLEXTOR PX-504A-SW-B IDE
MULTI-SLOT FLASH 3.5" USB2.0
SOUND BLASTER|AUDIGY 2 PCI

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Thanks for the feedback...

Scott March - InterWeb Technologies said:
Yes on RAID 0 arrays on both controllers. Each port (4) has a Raptor hanging
off it. BIOS settings for memory is "auto" SPD. I have PAT turned on.
Everything else is default. No overclocking.

system specs:
CASE: ENERMAX|12BSERV CS-10181-B
POWER SUPPLY: ANTEC TRUE550
MB: P4C800-E DELUXE CANTERWOOD
CPU: P4/3.0CGHz, 800M 478P/512K
CPU FAN: ZALMAN CNPS7000-CU
DDRAM: 2 x 1GB TWINX1024-3700 (4 x 512 sticks)
VGA: EVGA|FX5900 ULTRA 256-A8-N328
FD: 1.44MB|MITSUMI #D359M3D BLACK
HD: 4 x 36GB|WD 10,000 WD360GD 8MB
DVD+RW: 2 x PLEXTOR PX-504A-SW-B IDE
MULTI-SLOT FLASH 3.5" USB2.0
SOUND BLASTER|AUDIGY 2 PCI

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