archcommus Posted November 25, 2004 Share Posted November 25, 2004 Hello, the specs of my system can be seen here (the Main system). Recently I have had issues with very bad boot times (well over a minute, about 20-30 passes of the bar on the XP loading screen and about a four to five second hang on the screen with Verifying DMI Pool Data at the bottom), very slow transfers of files to, from, and within my hard drive (a mere 500-600 KB/sec most of the time), and stuttering and locking up of Half-Life 2. I wasn't sure what this could be due to, so I went ahead and formatted my system, and reinstalled XP SP2. To my dismay, not much had changed. I was told it could either be a dying HDD or a bad stick of memory, so I ran a diagnostic tool on my HDD, and everything came back okay. Then I decided to give Memtest a go. After running for only a few minutes it produced one error. So I tried only my first stick of memory in the first slot. Again, one error. I then tried the second stick by itself in the first slot - completed two full passes with no errors (two passes took about 26 minutes). Then I tried booting up with just that one stick in, and it was lightning fast. No screen at all with DMI Pool Data at the bottom, and only 4.5 passes of the blue bar on the XP loading screen. I also experimented by copying a 2.49 GB folder from one partition to another on my HDD, and it went at about 10 MB/sec, as opposed to 500 KB/sec before. I also tried playing HL2 some, and there were no stuttering issues, and no locking up. I went ahead and tried putting the other stick back in again in conjunction with the first stick, and although the boot times did not get long right away, I did get Memtest errors again, and HL2 did start to stutter and lock up again. Then, after running this way for a few hours, suddenly my boot times got bad again. I pulled the second stick and, again, it was fine. So I think it's obvious that one stick of memory is bad. Thanks for any help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archcommus Posted November 25, 2004 Author Share Posted November 25, 2004 At least 10 characters? Hmm. Bump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archcommus Posted November 26, 2004 Author Share Posted November 26, 2004 Bumping again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted November 26, 2004 Share Posted November 26, 2004 Ram Guy, here's his other thread which the T/S was done in. http://www.houseofhelp.com/v2/showthread.php?t=32602 archcommus, please stop bumping. Being Thanksgiving and all, I don't think they're open until Monday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archcommus Posted November 26, 2004 Author Share Posted November 26, 2004 Oh right. Forgot I'm waiting for an employee of a company to respond here, not just a user. My apologies. What's a T/S? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted November 26, 2004 Share Posted November 26, 2004 T/S = Troubleshooting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archcommus Posted November 26, 2004 Author Share Posted November 26, 2004 I believe you wanted a link in your post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted November 26, 2004 Share Posted November 26, 2004 Doh! Thanks, eheh. Fixed that post, and slapping it in here as well: http://www.houseofhelp.com/v2/showthread.php?t=32602 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archcommus Posted November 27, 2004 Author Share Posted November 27, 2004 There's also this thread, from back when I first got the memory. The RAM produced Memtest errors but I couldn't figure out why. I think it was because of that one module. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted November 28, 2004 Corsair Employees Share Posted November 28, 2004 I am not sure you will ever be able to run these modules in this MB. The Min Voltage is 2.75 Volts for XMS3200LL. If you have the option to set the Dim Voltage, please try it at 2.8 Volts. If that does not solve the problem, I would try and lower your multiplier to make sure it's not the CPU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archcommus Posted November 28, 2004 Author Share Posted November 28, 2004 I can run them in this motherboard okay. Back in the summer I was experiencing TONS of stability issues, but I set the DDR voltage to 2.8 and that straightened it out. I still have it at that now. I did try lowering my overclock substantially. While I am not able to POST at 133x13, I tried 150x9 and some others in that range. Again, the one stick gave errors, the other did not. Also, when I do run both sticks, occasionally Windows will hang on the loading screen, or it will hang on the Welcome screen, or it will hang when it gets to the desktop when rebooting. With just the one stick in it never happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted November 28, 2004 Corsair Employees Share Posted November 28, 2004 Let’s try replacing your modules. 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...
archcommus Posted November 28, 2004 Author Share Posted November 28, 2004 Thanks for your help, RAM Guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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