norcalnicca Posted November 17, 2005 Share Posted November 17, 2005 I have a Asus A7N8X-LA (although Technically Compaq) motherboard and I am running two VS512MB400 chips and instantly my computer becomes extremely unstable. I have tried new drivers, reinstalling windows etc etc etc..... and have come to the conclusion it is the ram because when I take the RAM out and replace it with the old ram (512 MB PC 2700) I have no problems. Now understand, I do know my motherboard requires PC 2700 and not PC 3200. I have a friend with the same exact system I have and when upgraded with PC 3200 it simply runs the ram at PC 2700 speed with no instability issues. My computer recognizes the full 1024MB of RAM and I have tried 4 other Pentium 4 Based Motherboards and 2 other Athlon XP based motherboards and I ran into the same issuse. The reason I bought this ram instead is because I will be building a new system, soon enough anyways. Please help.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted November 18, 2005 Corsair Employee Share Posted November 18, 2005 Please try using one stick of RAM at a time and see if one modules performs better than the other. If this is the case let us know and we will take care of the problem for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norcalnicca Posted November 20, 2005 Author Share Posted November 20, 2005 I dunno, tried each stick, one by one in both slots and my computer would not actually boot into windows and in combination of one Corsair stick and one OEM stick, the computer would boot into windows and after opening a program, the computer would crash immediately, what to do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted November 22, 2005 Corsair Employee Share Posted November 22, 2005 To properly figure out if the problem is the memory or not, you should run memtest and inform me of the results. Here are the directions you can use to run memtest: 1. Head over to http://www.memtest.org 2. Click on the link labeled "Download (Pre-built & ISOs)" 3. Next click on the link labeled "Download - Pre-Compiled package for Floppy (DOS - Win)" 4. Download the software and Unzip the program files 5. Make sure a floppy disk is inserted 6. Run the program, when it asks which drive letter type in "a:" 7. Program should finish writing, reboot off floppy disk 8. Allow memtest to run 2-3 passes I hope these instructions help you! Please let me know what happens! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norcalnicca Posted November 23, 2005 Author Share Posted November 23, 2005 Allowed memtest to run while at work 19 Passes no Errors! Here are the stats: DDR331 165 mhz Cas:2.5-3-3-7 Dual Channel Mode Cached 959MB (65 to Onboard Memory) nVidia nForce2 199 Mhz FSb AMD Athlon XP 2.191 Ghz. What do you think is wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted November 23, 2005 Share Posted November 23, 2005 Nothing's wrong, those are the correct settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norcalnicca Posted November 23, 2005 Author Share Posted November 23, 2005 I know those are the correct settings, but it does not correct my system beeing very unstable......................... ANywho, RamGuy, everything seems to be stable right now, so I am going to try to performing heavy work loads over the next few days to see if the instability returns, thanks, give you some feedback soon enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norcalnicca Posted November 23, 2005 Author Share Posted November 23, 2005 Nix that, goin back to the old RAM, Cubase Recording Caused Major malfunction which was not present with old RAM...................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted November 23, 2005 Corsair Employee Share Posted November 23, 2005 Let's go ahead and replace them for you and see if that solves the problem. Please follow the link in my signature, "I think I have a bad part..." and follow the directions listed on that page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norcalnicca Posted November 24, 2005 Author Share Posted November 24, 2005 Will Do.............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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