rlwaters Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 I purchased a matched pair of 512mb Corsair DDR400 PC3200's recently to go in a high end gaming system. My game of choice lately has been World of Warcraft, and I've been experiencing near constant crashes to desktop. On the advice of one of the techs, I downloaded and installed memtest86 and prime95 in order to discover if I had any borderline flaky components. The results of memtest86 showed every single attempted test across 6 passes were failed. Prime95 also failed out after less than 2 minutes. System Specs are as follows: Case: Cooler Master TAC-T01 Wave Master PSU: Antec 480W NeoPower Power Supply CPU: AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 Socket 939 OEM Cooling: Thermalright SLK-948U w/Vantec Stealth 92mm FAN Motherboard: ASUS A8V Deluxe WiFi Edition Hard Drive: Two Western Digital 74GB SATA, 10000 RPM w/ 8-MB Cache Video Card: eVGA GeForce 6800 Ultra 256-MB Monitor: Dell Ultrasharp 2001 20" LCD Sound Card: Creative SoundBlaster Audigy2 ZS Platinum Speakers: Logitech Z-680 5.1 CD/DVD-RW: Pioneer 16x DVD+RW/-RW DVR-108 OEM Mouse: Logitech MX100 Optical Mouse Operating System: Windows XP Pro w/ SP2 Floppy: Generic Black Floppy Disk Drive -------- Now with as consistant as the failures were in memtest86, I am willing to conceed its possible user error in configuration. I need a bit of a hand decyphering where the problem may lie, and what I need to do to stabilize this system. Thanks, Rob Waters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rlwaters Posted December 21, 2004 Author Share Posted December 21, 2004 I should mention more specifically which model ram it is I suppose. TWINX1024-3200XLPRO purchased from gameve.com at this url http://www.gameve.com/gve/Store/ProductDetails.aspx?sku=MMN-COR-077 Any assistance would be very helpful. Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 That's not 4000PRO, it's 3200XLPRO. Since the error is on that website, I emailed their sales and webmaster about it. Not a good sign when the email gets returned saying the email does not exist for the webmaster :( Try one stick at a time in the same slot with the ras to cas delay at 3 (TESTING purpose only) @ 2.75 or 2.8 volts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rlwaters Posted December 21, 2004 Author Share Posted December 21, 2004 Your absolutely right about the company Wired... they gave me a bad feeling, however they were recommended by Pricewatch, so I decided to give them a try. I am at work currently, but after seeing your suggestion as well as doing my own research, I'll give the 'stick at a time' method a shot with memtest this afternoon. I'll also edit the title of the post to reflect the actual ram model (pulled from the stick itself) Thanks, Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted December 21, 2004 Share Posted December 21, 2004 You can only change the sub-title, but I changed the main title. Pricewatch lists anyone who applies. Check out resellers at resellerratings.com. http://www.resellerratings.com/seller2651.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rlwaters Posted December 21, 2004 Author Share Posted December 21, 2004 Well at least resellerratings has them rated as a quality shop. I do however think they should fire their webmaster :biggrin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted December 21, 2004 Corsair Employee Share Posted December 21, 2004 Can you tell me the make and model of MB you have along with 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...
rlwaters Posted December 21, 2004 Author Share Posted December 21, 2004 Motherboard: ASUS A8V Deluxe Essentially everything in the BIOS is untouched as far as settings are concerned. All memory items are set as AUTO. I'm still at work, so I can't be more specific. Anything in particular you need to know? If so, I'll dig those settings up when I get home in ~3ish hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted December 21, 2004 Corsair Employee Share Posted December 21, 2004 Please make sure that you have the latest bios and install the modules in slots 2-4 and then load setup defaults and set the Dim voltage to 2.8 Volts and set the timings as follows: CAS Latency CL=2.0 Row Cycle Time tRC Bios Default Row Refresh Cyc Time tRFC Bios Default Ras# to CAS# delay tRCD 3 Row to Row delay Bios Default Min Ras# Active Time tRAS 11 Row Precharge Time tRP 2 Write Recovery Time Bios Default Write to Read delay Bios Default Read to Write Delay Bios Default Refresh Period tREF Bios Default Enable 2T Timing Disabled Then test the system with http://www.memtest.org and make sure it's stable! If you have problems, I would set Enable 2T Timings to AUTO and test it again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rlwaters Posted December 21, 2004 Author Share Posted December 21, 2004 Ok now I'm getting frustrated. Procedure-- 1) Flashed my BIOS to the most recent version. 2) Rebooted and tried memtest 2a) memtest failed 3) Modified the settings noted above 3a) memtest failed 4) Removed one of the sticks 5) Attempted to reboot 5a) Black screen, no bios, no POST beep, nothing. 6) Removed 2nd stick and reversed their slot order (Still only one stick in the PC) 7) Rebooted 7a) Black screen, no bios, no sound, nothing. So essentially, the PC will only display with both sticks installed (in any order)... however, it should be noted that once it boots with a black screen it takes holding the power switch for 4 seconds to restart (leading me to beleive it may actually be to the login prompt, just not displaying). I'm trying to get in touch with phone support right now, but any ideas would be appreciated. Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rlwaters Posted December 21, 2004 Author Share Posted December 21, 2004 Figured out part of this problem... The reason it wont boot in the configuration I was trying, is that its idea of where bank0 and my idea of where bank0 should be are two completely different things. Still getting all errors on memtest though. Never have been able to get hold of tech support (aside from this site of course)... Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted December 22, 2004 Share Posted December 22, 2004 Cust Service picks up instantly, talked to RG, looks like someone's out sick today in tech support, so it's a wee bit hectic. No worries, the forum's here to help out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted December 22, 2004 Corsair Employee Share Posted December 22, 2004 Wired please PM him with my direct line and I will be happy to help. rlwaters, if you get my voice mail, please leave your name and number I will call you back ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rlwaters Posted December 23, 2004 Author Share Posted December 23, 2004 Just wanted to follow up this thread briefly. I got in contact with Ray in tech support, and we went through the BIOS a bit more carefully, as well as shift the stick's location to a different set of slots. Once those steps were done, memtest86 tested through ok over 10 passes, and Prime95's torture test went for 3 hours (I turned it off, no errors). So in essence, I think we got it. Many thanks to both Ray on the phone, Ram Guy, and Wired here. Time will tell if WoWarcraft will behave now, I can only hope. Top Notch folks... Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted December 23, 2004 Corsair Employee Share Posted December 23, 2004 Thanks for the compliment and please let us know if you have any questions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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