56kcrasher Posted December 6, 2004 Share Posted December 6, 2004 System Specs: Motherboard: nVidia nForce2 w/ Integrated LAN, Sound, and GeForce4 MX GPU. (Brand: AOpen AK79G-VN) Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2400+ GPU: Integrated GeForce4 MX w/ 32 MB of Shared RAM (can be changed in the BIOS). RAM: 2 Corsair VS256MB333 256MB DDR333 PC2700 Memory Sticks Case: Soyo ATX Midtower 350 Watt Power Supply OS: Windows XP Home I have posted in this forum twice before. The first time was because the RAM I had bought was defective and you guys replaced it. The second time was because I thought I had another RAM problem, it turned out to be something else and it was resolved. Well, now yesterday my computer started acting up like it did with the defective RAM. It would crash after using it for a while or opening a big program like Magix. This time, however, after it boots back up, everything in the boot sequence is all gibberish with random exclamation points everywhere and the video was flickering a lot. I decided to run MemTest86 and when it found the error, all of the DOS-like menus and options, and all of the text turned to gibberish as well, and when I restarted it, my PC would no longer boot up Windows XP Home. It sometimes displays the gibberish and it also shows vertical green lines on the screen where it performs the memory test and where it checks for bootable CDs and floppies; it sometimes flickers orange horizontal lines on those screens too. That's really all of the details I can think of. If you could reply quickly that'd be great as I have no computer at home to check it from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted December 6, 2004 Share Posted December 6, 2004 try one stick at a time in each slot. 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 Can you tell me 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
56kcrasher Posted May 20, 2005 Author Share Posted May 20, 2005 System Specs: Motherboard: nVidia nForce2 w/ Integrated LAN, Sound, and GeForce4 MX GPU. (Brand: AOpen AK79G-VN) Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2400+ GPU: Integrated GeForce4 MX w/ 32 MB of Shared RAM (can be changed in the BIOS). RAM: 2 Corsair VS256MB333 256MB DDR333 PC2700 Memory Sticks Case: Soyo ATX Midtower 350 Watt Power Supply OS: Windows XP Home I have posted in this forum twice before. The first time was because the RAM I had bought was defective and you guys replaced it. The second time was because I thought I had another RAM problem, it turned out to be something else and it was resolved. Well, now yesterday my computer started acting up like it did with the defective RAM. It would crash after using it for a while or opening a big program like Magix. This time, however, after it boots back up, everything in the boot sequence is all gibberish with random exclamation points everywhere and the video was flickering a lot. I decided to run MemTest86 and when it found the error, all of the DOS-like menus and options, and all of the text turned to gibberish as well, and when I restarted it, my PC would no longer boot up Windows XP Home. It sometimes displays the gibberish and it also shows vertical green lines on the screen where it performs the memory test and where it checks for bootable CDs and floppies; it sometimes flickers orange horizontal lines on those screens too. That's really all of the details I can think of. If you could reply quickly that'd be great as I have no computer at home to check it from. I posted almost six months ago and I decided to continue using the existing memory I had as simply switching around the two memory cards then switching them back did the trick (I had also tried them one at a time and that also seemed to work). However I still have encountered many problems, especially when running memory intensive operations (Burning DVD videos, having too large of an undo history in Photoshop, etc.). My system always crashes. Recently, my system has been crashing by simply leaving it idle and allowing my screen saver (a standard flash based screensaver from Mariahcarey.com) to launch. It crashes on me when viewing videos and when surfing the web. I can no longer afford to continue using the same memory modules. I haven't run memtest86 again, but considering my original posts, I don't think I really have to. To answer the RAM GUY's question, my motherboard settings for my CPU and Memory are the default settings. I haven't tried to overclock it in anyway. I'm not entirely sure about the FSB but I do believe it is running at 333Mhz. I could be wrong. For more information on my motherboard, click on this link for the AK79G-VN (http://usa.aopen.com/Products/mb/AK79G-VN.htm) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted May 20, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted May 20, 2005 Please test the modules one at a time with http://www.memtest.org and I would set the Dim Voltage to 2.7 Volts as well. If you do find one failing then lets get it or them replaced. Please follow the link in my signature “I think I have a bad part!” and we will be happy to replace them or it! However; if you get errors with both modules, that would suggest some other problem. And I would try testing the memory in another system to be sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
56kcrasher Posted May 20, 2005 Author Share Posted May 20, 2005 I took out one of the RAM sticks and I noticed something that I never really noticed before. Both of the sticks seem to have marks on it. Like they got burnt or something, and they're not identical on both. One of them has three marks on the golden-colored, metal parts that connect to the motherboard (the second one from the left, the second one from the right, and one on the other side). The other has one mark on the connector and and a soft grey spot on the back of the stick right over where it would normally say "94V-0 / MADE IN USA" I have never noticed these before and they very well could have been there all along. .//edit: Marks are actually as follows. On the first memory stick the burn marks run... 2 ticks down from the left on the front 3 ticks down from the right on the front 3 ticks down from the right on the back Note: I count the front being the part with the black blocks on it. ON the second memory stick the burn marks run... 3 ticks down from the right on the back and a soft spot over the 0 where it says 94V-0 MADE IN USA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
56kcrasher Posted May 20, 2005 Author Share Posted May 20, 2005 Okay, I tested the memory sticks individually on my PC, and as I expected they both failed memtest86. I still haven't been able to test it on another system as the only other system I can get to at the moment uses SDRAM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted May 20, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted May 20, 2005 Lets get your modules replaced, but I would take a close look at the MB and make sure none of the pins in the memory socket are damaged. 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...
56kcrasher Posted May 20, 2005 Author Share Posted May 20, 2005 Thank you very much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted May 20, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted May 20, 2005 No problem, please let me know how you make out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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