Surgeon Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 I have recently purchased a Asus A8V-E Deluxe and have attempted to install my Corsair TwinX XMS3200 400Mhz CL2 512MB stick/s. The motherboard rejects this RAM saying it does not pass memory test, It does this with both sticks(i bought them in a twin pack) installed in all configurations. My question: Is this a known incompatibility or is my motherboard faulty? I am unable to get my hands on other DDR400 RAM to test this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 What is the exact part # of the memory? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surgeon Posted December 21, 2004 Author Share Posted December 21, 2004 umm well the only other numbers are CMX512-3200C2 XMS3202v5.1 0446115-2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted December 22, 2004 Corsair Employees Share Posted December 22, 2004 Please make sure that you have the latest bios version Bios 1.002 Beta 3 and I would install the modules in slots 2-4 and then load setup defaults and set the Dim Voltage to 2.7 Volts. Then see if you can test the modules with http://www.memtest.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surgeon Posted December 22, 2004 Author Share Posted December 22, 2004 To update I have managed to get the system to at least POST and load with the ram sticks in slots B1& B2 (slots 3&4). However its running in some sort of BIOS safe mode with the RAM at single channel and at 333Mhz. Cuts a good slice of my 3DMark CPU scores so Im going to attempt to fix it using your suggestions above Ramguy. Thanks Ramguy! I'll let you know how your suggestion helped within 12 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kbombers45 Posted December 23, 2004 Share Posted December 23, 2004 I have the same motherboard and ram i have no idea what the problem is. I am assuming that some how my bios got corrupted. I put in two serial ATA hard drives in my computer and my Motherboard detects the drives but windows xp installer cannot detect them but anyways. i look forward to hearing what u might think i was told my asus my bios were corrupt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surgeon Posted December 23, 2004 Author Share Posted December 23, 2004 Update: Bios above installed and the above voltage set and although the machine would POST windows would corrupt pretty much instantly. Thinking that all my HDD's were faulty and then proceeded to try and clean them up.Bad. Turned down my certified to CL2 RAM to CL2.5 and the problem went away. So although my RAM isnt running as fast as Id like I now have both sticks working in Dual Channel in slots A1+B1 (1&3). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted December 23, 2004 Corsair Employees Share Posted December 23, 2004 Try them in slots 2-4 and set the Dim Voltage to 2.7 Volts and see if that does not solve the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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