tlangdon Posted November 25, 2004 Share Posted November 25, 2004 I have two sticks of Corsair 512MB XMS2700 C2 RAM and I believe that one is faulty. When this stick is being used, by itself or in combo with another stick, the computer randomly shuts down. This problem does not occur when the stick is not present. I have also ran a memory test on this stick and have indeed received confirmation of faulty RAM with recommendation to replace the stick. System specs are: - P4 Northwood 1.8(A) CPU - X-Micro GeForce4 Ti4200 64MB Video Card - 80GB Western Digital 8MB Buffer HDD - Gigabyte GA-8SRX Mobo Any solutions or further advice would be most appreciated. Also any further information required will be gladly forwarded. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted November 26, 2004 Share Posted November 26, 2004 Ram Guy'll be back on Monday to complete the RMA process. 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 Can you tell me the make and model of MB you have, and please tell me the bios settings you had set for both CPU and memory! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlangdon Posted December 14, 2004 Author Share Posted December 14, 2004 Firstly, sorry about the late reply, I was on holiday. Make and model of RAM is CMX512-2700C2 XMS2700V1.1022360 BIOS Settings: Linear Frequency Control: Disabled CPU clock (Mhz): 100 DRAM clock: N/A AGP clock: Auto PCI clock: Auto AGP voltage control: Normal DRAM voltage control: Normal CPU voltage control: Normal Normal CPU Vcore: 1.500V Top Performance: Disabled Configure DRAM Timing: Auto *CAS Latency Setting: Auto *DRAM RAS Active Time: 6T *DRAM RAS Perchange Time: 3T *DRAM RAS to CAS Delay: 3T AGP Aperture Size: 64MB Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted December 14, 2004 Corsair Employees Share Posted December 14, 2004 What are you running the memory Frequency at? If you have it set to SPD that may be causing the problem. You would need to run the memory at DDR266 with a 100MHz CPU. And I would set the Dim Voltage to 2.7 Volts or +.2 Volts and then test the modules with http://www.memtest.org to be sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlangdon Posted December 19, 2004 Author Share Posted December 19, 2004 Did as you suggested and still faulty. Test returned with an error with same recommendation to replace the stick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted December 20, 2004 Corsair Employees Share Posted December 20, 2004 Please make sure you have the latest BIOS installed for your MB and load optimized defaults settings, and try the following BIOS settings; CMX256A or CMX512-2700C2 Advanced Chipset Features: Hit (Ctrl + F1) CPU Freq: 133 MHz (533 FSB) Memory Frequency: 333 Memory Timing: User Define/Manual SDRAM CAS Latency: 2T SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay (tRCD): 3T SDRAM Active to Precharge Delay (tRAS): 6T SDRAM Row Precharge (tRP): 3T DDR Reference Voltage: 2.7 Volts AGP Voltage: Default *unless you have ATI (9200 or 9600) or NVIDIA (5200 or 5700) then 1.6 Volts suggested!* All other settings are motherboards defaults 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...
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