dendob Posted December 1, 2004 Share Posted December 1, 2004 Hi, this night I ran all night long a series of tests with memtest, this morning and 9 hours later it found 64 errors where the memory stored gave ffff-ff00 pages instead of ffff-ffff ... if its any help all those failures came up in test 8. Now is there a possibility to find out which of the 2 rams is probably the faulty one? is there a windows based memory program which lists a decent report of what and where the faults are? Sys Specs: Asus a7n8x-e deluxe AMD xp-m2600 2 * CMX512-3200XLPRO dual channel (standard clocks n speed) ati 9800se 300w standard power supply 60 GB maxtor 5600rpm 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 Can you tell me the bios settings you have set for both CPU and memory and any performance settings that you may have set? And what slots do you have the memory in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendob Posted December 1, 2004 Author Share Posted December 1, 2004 CPU settings run at 11 * 200 mhz no spread spectrum ( 10 and 10,5 multiplier wont boot somehow) vsettings: 1.625 ram settings: the standard SPD settings but i set the settings manually 2 - 2 - 2 - 5 vsettings lowest (im not at home but i guess thats 2,6v) and at 200 mhz hope thats what ur looking for 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 The suggested voltage for this module would 2.75 Volts, so I would set the Dim Voltage at 2.8 Volts and with the CPU you have you might try and set it to default settings or as follows and see if the problem is still present. CPU Freq: 166 MHz Memory Frequency: 100% Dim Voltage to 2.8 Volts Resulting Frequency: 166MHz SDRAM CAS Latency: 2T SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay (tRCD): 2T SDRAM Row Precharge (tRP): 2T SDRAM Active to Precharge Delay (tRAS): 5T Then please test the system with http://www.memtest.org, but what you have posted might suggest you may be running the frequency too high for the CPU you have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendob Posted December 3, 2004 Author Share Posted December 3, 2004 I did all the settings u asked me and reran the test only on one ram module and it found 4 errors again at the same test and again the last 2 numbers were incorrect if that is the case is my ram faulty or not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted December 3, 2004 Corsair Employees Share Posted December 3, 2004 Well lets try replacing the modules and see what happens. 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...
dendob Posted December 4, 2004 Author Share Posted December 4, 2004 i submitted the form i tested the other module and that one works fine but the problem is that its a dual channel type so with RMA i should send them both back? :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted December 5, 2004 Share Posted December 5, 2004 If it's a TwinX pack yes, however you have to notate that on the form. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendob Posted December 5, 2004 Author Share Posted December 5, 2004 i have noted that its dual channel and that it are 2 modules Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted December 5, 2004 Share Posted December 5, 2004 For the model though, did you put down TwinX or CMX? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendob Posted December 6, 2004 Author Share Posted December 6, 2004 I put down CMX512-3200XLPRO but the package said dual channel: on the modules itself it says: xms3208v1.1 0436131-1 should i change something then or am i wrong somewhere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted December 6, 2004 Share Posted December 6, 2004 It needs to say 1 package of TwinX1024-3200XLPRO, otherwise they'll think it's just 2 CMX sticks that aren't tested together. If the RMA was already approved reply back to the email with the correction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendob Posted December 6, 2004 Author Share Posted December 6, 2004 well my memory itself says CMX512-3200XLPRO but the package says extreme pro DDR dual channel ... ill post the complete numbers on top: CMX512-3200XLPRO XMS3208v1.1 0436131 - 1 XMS 3200 512 MB 400MHZ 225 shoudl i RMA as TWINX instead then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted December 6, 2004 Corsair Employees Share Posted December 6, 2004 Yes, if you submit the RMA for 2 CMX512-3200XLPro modules then that is what you will get. You should submit the RMA for 1 Twinx1024-3200XLPro modules to get them replaced as a Twinx set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendob Posted December 8, 2004 Author Share Posted December 8, 2004 now im a bit confused ... the twinx sets also have CMX-3200 XLPRO on the modules themselves? they are visually the same but only corsair has tested them before hand as dual channel (twinX) compatible? i havent received any response on my rma request so I cant reply that its different then yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted December 8, 2004 Corsair Employees Share Posted December 8, 2004 Please follow the last link in my signature and Twinx sets are comprised of 2 single modules so they will have the single module part# on them but will both have the same lot code and should have another small sticker that says Twinx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendob Posted December 8, 2004 Author Share Posted December 8, 2004 they do have the same lot code but lack the small sticker which means the package fooled me or the sticker didnt make it on the module? if so just ask for rma as twinx or not? ps atm my whole pc doesnt boot anymore :/ so cant even test anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted December 9, 2004 Corsair Employees Share Posted December 9, 2004 The TwinX1024-3200XLPro consist of two identical stick of the CMX512-3200XLPro. So when you request for the RMA just put TwinX1024-3200XLPro for your model. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendob Posted December 9, 2004 Author Share Posted December 9, 2004 RMA requested I hope it goes faster then last time ;) I need my PC back up to run a database server to exercise for my exams :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted December 10, 2004 Corsair Employees Share Posted December 10, 2004 If you had RMA'ed these before let customer service know that, and we will take care of the freight both ways. But it will depend more on how you send them in, but with some parts that are in high demand there are shortages from time to time. At any Rate you can email Customer Service and get the RMA status. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendob Posted December 11, 2004 Author Share Posted December 11, 2004 how will the freight then be handled backwards? I will send them on monday any idea when the rmaed will have returned then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted December 13, 2004 Corsair Employees Share Posted December 13, 2004 It will depend on how you send them, but the average is 5-7 business days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendob Posted October 20, 2006 Author Share Posted October 20, 2006 This no thread necromancy this applies to the same ram modules as I used before. The systems specs have changed a little bit but this is on the same motherboard: asus A7N8X-deluxe TwinX1024-3200XLPro (same ram, the RMAed one is still on the board) Gainward 7800 Bliss GS+ same XP-M barton 2600 (clock settings are lower tho) The diamondmax 60GB now has 500GB sata 500GHFO in addition to it the PSU is now a generic 550W system has worked with almost no errors since the RMA in 2004 so thats about 2 years non faulty work. I recently start running into troubles with XP games crashing unexpectedly (mostly errors about memory that could not be read or video driver errors) Having replaced the vid card. I still ran into troubles so I thought clean install to patch up the work and get it together to no avail... games like Mechwarrior 4, Warcraft III, X2 and even Heroes of MIght and Magic V all crash on me from time to time. So i tried windows vista, what could it hurt, trying never killed anyone (except if you are trying to get killed of course) and the install went smoothly. But as i completed the install I noticed a memory checking tool with the install ran it ... and yes it said I am in trouble DAMN. So i went looking for my memtest disk, booted ran the test again and it came up faulty again. This ram has been RMAed before and now has let me down again after some decent work. standard procedure for RMA or is there anything else i should try? Greetings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted October 20, 2006 Corsair Employees Share Posted October 20, 2006 Please set these settings and then test the system with http://www.memtest.org CPU Freq: 166 MHz System Performance: User Define Memory Frequency: 100% Dim Voltage to 2.7 Volts Resulting Frequency: 166MHz Memory Timings: Manual/User Define SDRAM CAS Latency: 2T SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay (tRCD): 3T SDRAM Row Precharge (tRP): 2T SDRAM Active to Precharge Delay (tRAS): 5T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendob Posted October 26, 2006 Author Share Posted October 26, 2006 thx for the advise it seems it wasnt the ram that was getting faulty my PSU that couldnt supply enough power anymore getting in the way of the OCing. case closed corsair still runs smoothly ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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