Golan Posted December 7, 2004 Share Posted December 7, 2004 I have a question about my memory. I just recently bought a kit of PC3200 Value Select RAM and recently I have been getting errors saying that "the memory cannot be read". This mainly happens when I am Playing WoW and I was wondering if I had a bad memory module. I haven't had a chance to run Memtest86 yet, but I copied all of the relevant information from my Bios screen and all the info for my computer so you could look at it and tell me if I have anything set up wrong. Here is the information about my computer: Memory in slots 1 & 2 dual channel at 200MHz Motherboard: A7N8X PCB 2.0 Bios 1010 (latest) CPU: Athlon XP +2700 333 FSB HDD: 250gb Western Digital Caviar 8mb Video Card: nVidia GeForce FX 5600 256mb Memory: VS1GBKIT400 Here are the settings from the advanced chipset feature on the motherboard: CPU External Frequency: 166MHz CPU Frequency Multiplier Setting: Auto CPU Frequency Multiplier: 13.0x System Performance: Optimal CPU Interface: Optimal Memory Frequency: By Spd Resulting Frequency: 200MHz Memory Timings: Optimal SDRAM Active Precharge Delay: 8 SDRAM RAS to CAS: 3 SDRAM RAS Precharge Delay: 3 CAS Latency: 2.5t FSB Spread System: .50% AGP Spread Spectrum: Disabled CPU VCore Setting: Auto CPU Vcore: 1.650v Any help you can offer would be great and I will try it and get back to you as soon as I can. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted December 7, 2004 Corsair Employees Share Posted December 7, 2004 Please set the memory Frequency at 100% or DDR333 with the CPU you have! This is a chipset limitation. If the FSB of your CPU is 400 For Intel and 100 MHz for AMD, the memory speed supports only DDR 266. If the FSB of your CPU is 533 For Intel and 133/166 MHz for AMD, the memory speed supports DDR 266/333 If the FSB of your CPU is 800 MHz for Intel and 200 MHz for AMD, the memory speed supports DDR 333/400 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golan Posted December 15, 2004 Author Share Posted December 15, 2004 I changed the settings accordingly, and while I am not getting the error as often, I am still getting it ocasionnaly with some of the programs. It has only happened once with World Of Warcraft, but it happend trying to shut down last night, and earlier today when I tried to open Word help. Is there a test I should run on my computer that you recommend before trying to get a replacement part or could this be an indiction that I need to reformat my Hard drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted December 15, 2004 Corsair Employees Share Posted December 15, 2004 Yes, please run http://www.memtest.org on the modules one at a time to be sure. And I would try and set the Dim Voltage to 2.7 Volts as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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