rvopat Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 I believe i have a bad stick of PC3200. I purchased a pair of Valueselect vs512mb400 from newegg and am running it in an Asus P4P800-E Delux motherboard with an Intel P4 3.2 on Windows XP Pro SP2. Originally it ran like a champ, but after a week or two i started getting random reboots and blue screens. I thought some software could be corrupt so i tried reinstalling windows, and i would get setupdd errors before setup would complete. I searched microsft on the error and it is a known issue with them and they said the error is caused by bad memory. I tested this answer by taking out one memory stick and windows installs fine. I then put the memory back in and windows will run, but i am back to the random reboots and bluescreens. If i take it out windows runs fine. I believe i need my memory replaced. Can I put this thread number on my RMA form? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted October 29, 2004 Corsair Employees Share Posted October 29, 2004 Please make sure that you have the latest BIOS for your MB and load Setup/optimized default settings, and try the following BIOS settings; VS1GBKIT400 or VS512MB400 Advanced/Jumper Free AI over clocking: Manual CPU Freq: 200 DRAM Clock: 400 MHz Memory or Dim Reference voltage: 2.75 Volts System performance: Standard AGP Voltage: Default *unless you have ATI 9200 or 9600 then 1.6 Volts suggested!* Advanced/Chipset Configure Dram timing by SPD: Disabled/User define SDRAM CAS Latency: 2.5T SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay (tRCD): 3T SDRAM Row Precharge (tRP): 3T SDRAM Active to Precharge Delay (tRAS): 8T SDRAM Burst Length: 8 Performance Acceleration Mode: Enabled USB Legacy Support: Disabled All other settings should be set to default settings! Then please test them one at a time with http://www.memtest.org and let’s make sure it's not some other issue! I would run the test for at least 2-3 passes to be sure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvopat Posted October 29, 2004 Author Share Posted October 29, 2004 Holy cow, yes it is bad, ran the test for 2 passes and got over 23,600 errors. Initially i did not believe this so i tested the chip in another board and same thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted October 29, 2004 Corsair Employees Share Posted October 29, 2004 Please follow the link in my signature “I think I have a bad part!” and we will be happy to replace them or it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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