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I've had my system for about a year now - everything's been running smoothly up until a couple of days ago when my comp suddenly wouldn't boot up. I have never overclocked any components. My mobo beeps 3 times, indicating bad mem. i tried different mem slots and reseting bios. When I tried booting up with different sticks of mem, it worked. Think I need my mem replaced... : (
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Can you tell me the make and model of MB you have along with the CPU speed and it’s FSB as well? In addition, please tell me the bios settings you have set for both CPU and memory and any performance settings that you may have set?
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Can you tell me the make and model of MB you have along with the CPU speed and it’s FSB as well? In addition, please tell me the bios settings you have set for both CPU and memory and any performance settings that you may have set?

 

Asus P4C800 Deluxe (recently updated bios)

P4 3.00 Ghz

 

all settings are default even memory timing is set to SPD

 

performance acceleration (PAT) is set to disabled.

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Please try to clear the CMOS on your MB, there should be a jumper on your MB to do this, and try to just use one memory module at a time and see if you can get your system back up and running. As soon as you can boot the system up, please make sure that you have the latest BIOS for your MB and load Setup/optimized default settings, and try the following BIOS settings;

TwinX1024 or TwinX512-3200LL

Advanced/Jumper Free

AI over clocking: Manual

CPU Freq: 200

DRAM Clock: 400 MHz

Memory or Dim Reference voltage: 2.75 Volts

System performance: Auto

AGP Voltage: Default *unless you have ATI (9200 or 9600) or NVIDIA (5200 or 5700) then 1.6 Volts suggested!*

Advanced/Chipset

Configure Dram timing by SPD: Disabled/User define

SDRAM CAS Latency: 2T

SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay (tRCD): 3T

SDRAM Row Precharge (tRP): 2T

SDRAM Active to Precharge Delay (tRAS): 6T

SDRAM Burst Length: 8

Performance Acceleration Mode: Auto

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!

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