madocks Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 Hello, I have recently purchased a stick of CMX256A-3200C2PT, however in windows it boots as PC2700, also SISANDRA also finds it as PC2700, so dow WCPUID and CPUZ. Does this mean its PC2700 with a PC3200 heat spreader on it? Or could it be part of the fault here: When running MEMTEST it failed, all over the place, this ram is DEAD big time, could this be related to the PC2700 issue etc??? Im in the UK, how do i get an rma sorted etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted October 26, 2004 Corsair Employees Share Posted October 26, 2004 The memory module that you have is most likely the first version of our 3200 modules, which when it was released before the official 3200 JEDEC specification, so that shouldn't be a problem it should still run and perform at DDR400 if you have a 400MHz FSB or 800MHz FSB for an Intel CPU. Now can you tell me the make and model of MB you have along with the CPU speed and it’s FSB as well? In addition, please tell me the bios settings you have set for both CPU and memory and any performance settings that you may have set? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madocks Posted October 26, 2004 Author Share Posted October 26, 2004 Thanks for the speedy reply.......... Mobo is an NF7-S Version 2, running with an Athlong 1700+ (Not clocked!), cpu FSB = 133 running at 1.4 gig............. The ran has a V1.1 sticker on the side, so what your saying about the 3200 JEDEC specification makes sense..... It does boot and run at 400Mhz...... CPU Bios and Memory settings are all at default, CPU is running on 133 with a Multiplier of 11 Ram is running on 400Mhz with timings of 2 2 3 6 (Taken from your website) I am using bios version 12 from the ABIT website........ Im pretty sure this ram is dead, for memtest to run ok with one stick, yet fail with another seems pretty conclusive, I have also put this stick of ram in my partners PC and run memtest, it failed again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted October 26, 2004 Corsair Employees Share Posted October 26, 2004 XMS3200C2 would be or should be set to Cass 2.5-3-3-6 and with a 133 FSB CPU I would suggest you run the memory Frequency at DDR333. If you try to run the memory at DDR400 and 133/166 MHz on the CPU Frequency it will cause a bottleneck in the chipset and may generate errors that are not the fault of the memory! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madocks Posted October 26, 2004 Author Share Posted October 26, 2004 ok, put the settings in the bios that you recomended...............it passed, cheers fella.......... Ive increased the FSB on my cpu now, and the ram still passes at 400Mhz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted October 26, 2004 Corsair Employees Share Posted October 26, 2004 Then you should see a performance increase with these settings! Please let me know if you have any questions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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