Nice Guy Posted November 30, 2004 Share Posted November 30, 2004 I recently built this computer. I ran into no problems during build it ran great for about two months, then i started to get random restarts and blue screen memory dumps. It persistently got worse and worse. until it wouldn't boot at all. I got the post error "couldn't do memory read/write" I decided to test the ram one stick at a time to see which was bad. Both in it failed, one stick didnt work, but the other did work. So i norrowed it down to the bad stick. The ram the i was using was 1Gb (2 512 sticks) or corsair twinx cmx512-3200C2 XMS3202v4.2 Im very sure that the stick just went bad, but if there is anything that has been overseen and i should try let me know. I would like to get it resolved or rma'ed as soon as possible Thanks Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted November 30, 2004 Share Posted November 30, 2004 What CPU / FSB / Motherboard do you have? What memory voltage are you running? Did you make sure it's not a bad slot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Posted November 30, 2004 Author Share Posted November 30, 2004 im using the following: CPU Name Intel Pentium 4 Name Intel Pentium 4 Code Name Prescott Specification Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 2.80GHz Family / Model / Stepping F 3 3 Extended Family / Model 0 0 Package mPGA-478 Core Stepping C0 Technology 0.09 µ Supported Instructions Sets MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3 CPU Clock Speed 2798.8 MHz Clock multiplier x 14.0 Front Side Bus Frequency 199.9 MHz Bus Speed 799.6 MHz Motherboard manufacturer ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Motherboard model P4P800SE, Rev 2.xx BIOS vendor American Megatrends Inc. BIOS revision 080009 BIOS release date 03/26/2004 Chipset Intel i865P/PE/G/i848P rev. A2 Southbridge Intel 82801EB (ICH5) rev. 2 Sensor chip Winbond W83627THF FSB Select 800 MHz Memory at 2.65 volts 2-3-3-6 stock stock speed of 200Mhz I've tried in every slot duel and single channel, it wont work with it in. It was fine a month ago. -Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted November 30, 2004 Corsair Employees Share Posted November 30, 2004 Please try and set the Dim Voltage to 2.75 Volts and I would test the modules one at a time with http://www.memtest.org. And please disable legacy USB when running http://www.memtest.org. If you still get errors, 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...
Nice Guy Posted November 30, 2004 Author Share Posted November 30, 2004 ok ill try it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Posted December 1, 2004 Author Share Posted December 1, 2004 Ya, I cant even boot from a floppy or even to an os with that dimm in, and the voltage didnt make it work so now im sure its bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted December 1, 2004 Corsair Employees Share Posted December 1, 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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