Ballistix Performance Memory

[furtive]

I have an EQS RS690MKM AB1S motherboard in my Media PC which had 2 x 1Gb DDR2 800Mhz Corsair memory sticks in it (CM2X1024-6400C4) and everything worked fine, but I have Windows 7 64-bit installed, so it ran a bit slowly. So I ordered a pair of 2Gb Ballistix DDR2 800 CL4 from Crucial. Initially I put them in the spare 2 slots to give me a total of 6Gb or memory, but when I booted into Windows my audio hardware had vanished from Device Manager. So I removed the old Corsair memory thinking maybe there was some sort of conflict between the two types of memory, but my audio hardware was still missing. If I remove the Ballistix memory and stick the Corsiar memory back in, my audio hardware magically reappears. Any idea what the hell is going on? Thanks.

[Jody21]

This sounds like a windows problem to me. havent gotten around to installin win7 yet but i wiull tell you an experience just to throw some info your way. I have realtek onboard audio, while back i was messin around in the bios an noticed I could change the memory handle for my sound chip. since i get stuttering sometimes in games i thought it might fix that problem. i changed it to the only other option there was and my device disappeared. I did uninstalls/reinstalls of my audio drivers several times even in safe mode, used driver sweeper too but it would never reappear. then back to the bios changed it back did an uninstall/reinstall of my audio software reboot and it was just back to normal. thing is, when i had that changed windows would never even detect the hardware, not even with the ! in front of it, just GONE. i know this may not help you much but in a way it sounded similar so i just thought i would throw it out there. BTW im on xp not win7.