https://blog.insanegenius.com/tag/codec/Recent content in Codec on Pieter Viljoen's BlogHugoenWed, 19 May 2010 02:46:00 +0000https://blog.insanegenius.com/2010/05/18/zotac-zboxhd-id11-4gb-ram/Wed, 19 May 2010 02:46:00 +0000https://blog.insanegenius.com/2010/05/18/zotac-zboxhd-id11-4gb-ram/<p>In this post I describe my experience while upgrading the BIOS, in order to support 4GB of memory.</p> <p>This is the third post in a <a href="https://blog.insanegenius.com/2010/05/zotac-zbox-mini-pc-zboxhd-id11.html">series of posts related to the Zotac ZBOX ZBOXHD-ID11</a>.</p> <p>Summary:<br> - 4GB is supported after upgrading the BIOS.<br> - BIOS has to be updated using less than 4GB, else ID11 fails to post.</p> <p>[Update: 20 May 2010]<br> After writing this post, the machine started bluescreen / BSOD crashing.<br> Mostly MEMORY_MANAGEMENT / 0x0000001A errors, with occasional 0x000000BE and 0x0000003B crashes.<br> When I initially installed the 4GB RAM, I ran <a href="http://www.memtest.org/">memtest</a> for one cycle, and the RAM tested fine. I just reran memtest, and it is reporting the memory as bad.<br> I replaced the memory with a new stick, I ran memtest overnight, and everything seems back to normal.<br> I hope it was just a bad stick, and not the ID11 that killed the memory.</p>