Re: Iwill DVD266u-RN Stability Fixes [UPDATED]
I thought that since I have put some time into getting a computer running with this board I would add a few lines of information as well.
My biggest problem was getting the memory to run. I have tried several brands of ECC Registered Ram such as Hynix, Samsung, Kingston but none of those worked so I gave up on ECC Registered ram and just installed 2GB of Low Density Ram of unknown brand and it works just fine.
This board received all new Rubycon Capacitors from Topcat and a couple of other mods such as...
kclamer
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Last Activity: 05-11-2009, 03:38 PM
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Re: DVD266U-RN Memory Issue
The capacitors on this board by the voltage regulators are Hermei. I got this thing started by eliminating some opens with my tears and then out of the grief I lapped and polished both of the Tualatins 1.4's and their heatsinks which were both like crap. Now the temps are 15 degrees lower on one CPU and 19 on the other. The board posted afterwords for unknown reasons but would still not recognize the full amount of memory installed. Now I will do a fresh install of xp and if the VGA card finally decides to work it will be good. For some reason it is very...Leave a comment:
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Re: DVD266U-RN Memory Issue
This is the flakies motherboard I ever worked with. After I got the keyboard problem out it wont post with any memory that I have. It used to work flawlessly with the samsung and now it wont even post. Does anyone else on this forum does recaps?Leave a comment:
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Re: DVD266U-RN Memory Issue
well i got a few memory sticks from a buddy of mine to try out. One is a kingston 512mb stick the other is a hynix 256mb stick, they didnt work together but when I took the kingston out the hynix worked but a keyboard erro kept coming up. Something like keyboard is locked, press key to unlock. I got the m/b manual out to check out where the pins are on the m/b for the keyboard lock and switched them to off and the computer wont post with neither of the sticks now. This is a pretty picky board. Any ideas what could have happened?Leave a comment:
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Re: DVD266U-RN Memory Issue
Thanks a bunch, now at least I know what kind of ram to look for. This board would not take any ram I threw at it except some ram made by Samsung that I borrowed from my brother inlaw. I have placed a service request from Topcat to get the board recapped a week ago but still havent gotten a response. As soon as the quote comes in, this board is going in for new capacitors.Leave a comment:
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Re: DVD266U-RN Memory Issue
Do you guys know if this motherboard will play nice with 2x1GB of Micron DDR? Or is it only good for 4x512MB? I apologize if I missed it in previous posts, but I wanted to know if it has worked for someone who has tried it.Leave a comment:
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Re: DVD266U-RN Memory Issue
Hello bgavin,
Fortunately the seller promised to refund me the memory, so I got lucky on this one. I mailed him the memory today and he said that he will test the memory and if it is bad then he will issue the full refund including shipping and the memory is good then he will refund the cost of the item only.
I'm going to buy 4x512MB of non registered non ecc ram and how that goes. I'm hoping that the regular DDR ram will be more compatible. Still makes me wonder why iwill claimed that the board would work with that kind...Leave a comment:
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Re: DVD266U-RN Memory Issue
Well thanks i4004, but I have purchased this ram from ebay. The reason why I bought such ram was because it would give me maximum memory capacity for this motherboard and secondly because from reading another thread, Tomcat suggested to use Samsung memory brand, hence the choice. This particular board is very unstable, I get VGA driver crashes constantly and overclocking is almost nonexistant. Makes me wonder if recapping it would do it justice.Leave a comment:
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DVD266U-RN Memory Issue
Hi Guys, I have purchased some Registered RAM for my Iwill DVD266U-RN thinking I would give it a little more life but the computer wont even boot with the memory installed. I thought that the board was compatible with Registered ECC Ram up to 4GB.
Memory Specs:
Samsung PC2100R-25331-N0
M312L2828ET0-CB0
1GB DDR PC2100 CL2.5 ECC
It is a double sided memory module.
The computer boots if I put in one stick of the registered ram and one stick of the non registered ram but only the non registered ram is recognized. There are no beeps coming... -
Re: Iwill DVD266u-RN Stability Fixes [UPDATED]
never mind it seems that I was trying to download using a wrong link. The link on this same page worked.Leave a comment:
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Re: Iwill DVD266u-RN Stability Fixes [UPDATED]
How do I download the BIOS? Everytime I click on the link it taken to a login page. Do I need to register for that somehow? Everytime I put in my login information that I have for this forum I cant login. Any help would be appreciated.Leave a comment:
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