TheRealRalf Posted January 31, 2005 Share Posted January 31, 2005 Hi Everybody out there. I've just bought these pair of matched memory. When I start up with AUTO-memory-settings or manually select PC400 the machine won't start my winxp , but is continously rebooting. When running @333 everything's just fine. I've read a suggestion about rising the vdimm but the bios (v.1.9) doesn't support vdimm-adjusting at all. Does anybody have a hint how to solve this or am I stuck? :-( Any reply appreciated. Have a good time, Ralf :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 What CPU / FSB do you have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRealRalf Posted February 1, 2005 Author Share Posted February 1, 2005 Hey Wired. Thx for your interest. CPU is a Athlon64 3000+ running on 200MHz, HT set to 800MHz and 16bit. But what's that got todo with my RAM? CU, Ralf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted February 1, 2005 Corsair Employee Share Posted February 1, 2005 Please test the modules one at a time with http://www.memtest.org and lets make sure one is not failing. But from looking at the manual there is not much info about its spec. However the other MB we have seen that only have 2 slots will only support DDR400 with one double sided or 2 single sided moduled other wise DDR333 would be suggested. But please test the modules one up too be sure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crawdaddy79 Posted February 1, 2005 Share Posted February 1, 2005 Try as I might I cannot find the specs for that motherboard. :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted February 2, 2005 Share Posted February 2, 2005 K8S8X Specifications K8S8X Manual On A64 systems the memory controller is on the CPU. Man, ASRock's sites need a LOT of work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crawdaddy79 Posted February 2, 2005 Share Posted February 2, 2005 I actually typed asrock.com in my URL bar and it didn't respond... Heh. Site is working now. It is pretty slow, too.. Kind of makes me want to donate money to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRealRalf Posted February 4, 2005 Author Share Posted February 4, 2005 Inserted the rams one by one and both run the tests successfully. Inserted both together, run memtest and that worked too! But everytime I start into windows the machine starts rebooting... Any idea? Please test the modules one at a time with http://www.memtest.org and lets make sure one is not failing. But from looking at the manual there is not much info about its spec. However the other MB we have seen that only have 2 slots will only support DDR400 with one double sided or 2 single sided moduled other wise DDR333 would be suggested. But please test the modules one up too be sure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted February 4, 2005 Corsair Employee Share Posted February 4, 2005 When it re-starts, do you get any type of stop error message? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRealRalf Posted February 5, 2005 Author Share Posted February 5, 2005 Thought I've had no STOP but while double-checking my WinXP-STOP-Error-handling it was set to reboot :-) So, this is what I got after disabling it (I just give the technical terms because I'm running a system in german): "STOP c000021a ... Logon Process... Status 0x0000005 (0x00000000, 0x0000000)" Because I forgot them earlier here are the detailed memory settings and BIOS-options: Memory Clock 200MHz Bank Interleave auto disabled Burst-length 4 8 beats CAS Latency auto 2 3 2.5 (tried it also on 2.5 but doesn't work neither) TRCD auto 2 3 4 5 6 TRAS auto 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 TRP auto 2 3 4 5 6 MA-Timing 1T 2T Will this help in diagnosing? When it re-starts, do you get any type of stop error message? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 Try these timings: CAS Latency: 2.5 RAS to CAS Delay (tRCD): 3 Row Precharge (tRP): 3 Active to Precharge Delay (tRAS): 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRealRalf Posted February 7, 2005 Author Share Posted February 7, 2005 Hi, tried these settings and also 3.0, 3, 3, 8 but get an "pagefault in an nonpaged area [...] STOP: 0x00000050 (0xE00359E4, 0x00000000, 0x805eca70, 0x00000000)" Only difference was, that I actually was able to logon for about 30secs ;-) Sooo, any idea, what to try next? Thanks alot for your suggestions. I appreciate your help really much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRealRalf Posted February 16, 2005 Author Share Posted February 16, 2005 Hellooooooo?... Wired?... RamGuy?... anybody out there?... Is there anything else to tryout or is this combination absolutely incompatible? A final word in this matter would be helpful. Thxalot, Ralf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted February 16, 2005 Corsair Employee Share Posted February 16, 2005 If you are not getting any errors in memtest.org but you have this problem, I would look for a driver and or newer bios or maybe try another PSU if you can just to test. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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