Optiplex GX270 memory error

Question

My GX270 will only run with 1048 ram. It has 2 512's. If I put in 2 more 512's I get blue screen of death. I can put 2 - 512's in any of the 4 dimm's but once I put more then 2 sticks I get bsod. I also tried 2-1048's and I also got bsod. The RAM I'm using is DDR PC3200 memory. My Max memory is 4096MB. I've tried 6 different sticks of RAM. All DDR PC3200. They all work great as long as I don't use more them 2 of them. Any idea's ????

Dev Mgr · Answer

Have you checked if there's a newer bios? Also, which OS are you running? 95/98/ME start having problems with more than 512MB.

kwasmo · Answer

I'm using bios revision A07 and my OS is XP Pro. Also the pc won't boot right until it warms up. I start it in the morning and it hangs at the win xp start up screen. I let it sit for 5 mins then reboot again and then I have to use start with last known good start up. Then it gives me a error saying the pc recovered from a serious error. The error says check for driver updates. I think all my drivers are updated. This pc is about 3 years old. Has a new WD 120 hdd and a new ATI 9550 256 MB vid card and a new Silencer 410 Dell-2 410W power supply. Thanks for responding.

bcd308ee24c7401 · Answer

GX270's can have many different problems due to the EXPANDING AND LEAKING CAP problem Have you checked your system board for this problem

kwasmo · Answer

Yeah, sort of. I didn't notice anything but that doesn't mean it's not the problem. I'll look again. Thanks !!

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