Afkamm Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 Hi there :) I have a similar problem. Corsair value select dual channel memory #VS1GBKIT400C3 (DDR400 (PC3200) 184pin non-ecc unbuffered, two 64Mx64 bit). Bought a few weeks ago from http://www.scan.co.uk My motherboard is an Abit VA-20, has 2 ram slots and can take up to 2GB in total. Processor is an Athlon XP 2800+ (333MHz FSB). At first the only problems I had were games (battlefield1942, black hawk down) crashing straight to the desktop without any warning within about 5-10 minutes of starting. Firefox being totally unusable as it crashed non-stop. Trillian crashing, but not as severe as Firefox. Graphics within webpages being screwed up (though not all of them). Now I've had a few "without warning" reboots. Sods law that the 3 programs I use the most are also the ones that crash the most. :( I've tried with nothing plugged into the motherboard and using onboard graphics/sound. Still the same as when I have my ATI 9800SE AIW and soundcard plugged in. Also upgraded my Enermax 350w PSU to a 500w PSU. No joy. I've used memtest86, with both sticks installed I get no errors after several passes, same goes with each stick on it's own. I've tried setting the DRAM timing manually, but I'm not sure what I'm doing. This is what the BIOS offers. DIMM Voltage Adjust - 2.54v / 2.58v / 2.67v Dram CAS Latency - 1.5 / 2 / 2.5 / 3 Bank Interleave - disabled / 2 bank / 4 bank Precharge to Active(TRP) - 2T / 3T / 4T / 5T Active to Precharge(TRAS) - 6T / 7T / 8T / 9T Active to CMD(Trcd) - 2T / 3T / 4T / 5T Dram Burst Length - 4 / 8 Dram Command Rate - 1T Command / 2T Command Any help/suggestions are appreciated. Cheers. Marc :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afkamm Posted December 28, 2004 Author Share Posted December 28, 2004 I notice someone has moved my post to a thread of its own, anychance you could move it again, but to the Compatibility Questions forum please? My query seems out of place in the warranty questions forum. :D Thanks. Marc :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 DIMM Voltage Adjust - 2.67v Dram CAS Latency - 3 Precharge to Active(TRP) - 4 Active to Precharge(TRAS) - 8 Active to CMD(Trcd) - 4 FSB @ 333 Mhz. Everything else to defaults. FYI the compatibility area is primarily for questions before someone buys memory, although frankly those 2 forums overlap a lot. Crashing issues is potentially a warranty issue, which is why they probably moved it here. However, if it passed memtest it's probably something else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted December 28, 2004 Corsair Employees Share Posted December 28, 2004 You might try and test the system with your sound card removed and see if it's more stable as well. But if you are not getting errors in memtest that would suggest some other problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afkamm Posted January 6, 2005 Author Share Posted January 6, 2005 Thanks for the tips. Nothing seems to working however, although I installed Trillian v3 and it seems more stable than v2 as it hasn't crashed once. Just have to wait on the next update for Firefox. :D Marc :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted January 6, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted January 6, 2005 What are the seettings you have set now for both CPU and memory and have you tried running http://www.memtest.org on your system? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afkamm Posted June 30, 2005 Author Share Posted June 30, 2005 I'm still having trouble and I'm so fed up with the crashes every 5 or so minutes and the reboots, driving me nuts. Any help would be appreciated. :) I've tried 2 other motherboards, MSI KT6V and a PCchips M848A, as I thought it may have been the VIA north/south chips, but still the same problems. I'm back with the VA20, the PCchips board went titsup after 2 days. :) I thought it might have been the 400fsb memory being forced to run at 333fsb for the processor so bought some 333fsb memory, but that made no difference. I've tried using various timing settings, but nothing I do seems to work. The only thing I haven't changed is the processor. Could it somehow be damaged or the source of my troubles? Marc :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted June 30, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted June 30, 2005 Can you 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...
Afkamm Posted July 1, 2005 Author Share Posted July 1, 2005 DRAM Clock - By SPD DRAM Timing - Manual Dram CAS Latency - 3 Bank Interleave - disabled Precharge to Active(TRP) - 3T Active to Precharge(TRAS) - 7T Active to CMD(Trcd) - 3T Dram Burst Length - 4 Dram Command Rate - 1T DIMM Voltage Adjust - 2.58v CPU clock - 166Mhz No performance settings. I can load the fail-safe defaults or the optimized defaults and still get problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted July 1, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted July 1, 2005 You will need to set the memory frequency at 100% or 1-1 with your CPU. If you try to run the memory at DDR400 with your CPU at 333 MHz it will cause a bottelneck in the chipset and it may be unstable. Please try these settings. DRAM Clock - 333Mhz/100%/1-1 DRAM Timing - Manual Dram CAS Latency - 3 Bank Interleave - disabled Precharge to Active(TRP) - 3T Active to Precharge(TRAS) - 7T Active to CMD(Trcd) - 3T Dram Burst Length - 4 Dram Command Rate - 1T DIMM Voltage Adjust - 2.7v CPU clock - 166Mhz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afkamm Posted July 2, 2005 Author Share Posted July 2, 2005 You will need to set the memory frequency at 100% or 1-1 with your CPU. If you try to run the memory at DDR400 with your CPU at 333 MHz it will cause a bottelneck in the chipset and it may be unstable. If I leave the DRAM Clock set to "By SPD", wont that detect the other stuff and know to run at the same speed as the processor? I tried your settings, but no joy. I decided to write down all the timings that I've tried in the past 24 hours. All these have failed to stop the crashes/reboots. Dram Clock - 166Mhz Bank Interleave - disabled Dram Burst Length - 4 Dram Command Rate - 2T Command DIMM Voltage Adjust - 2.63v Dram CAS Latency | Precharge to Active(TRP) | Active to Precharge(TRAS) | Active to CMD(Trcd) 2.5 | 2 | 6 | 2 2.5 | 2 | 7 | 2 2.5 | 2 | 8 | 2 2.5 | 2 | 9 | 2 2.5 | 3 | 6 | 3 2.5 | 3 | 7 | 3 2.5 | 3 | 8 | 3 2.5 | 3 | 9 | 3 2.5 | 4 | 6 | 4 2.5 | 4 | 7 | 4 2.5 | 4 | 8 | 4 2.5 | 4 | 9 | 4 2.5 | 5 | 6 | 5 2.5 | 5 | 7 | 5 2.5 | 5 | 8 | 5 2.5 | 5 | 9 | 5 3 | 2 | 6 | 2 3 | 2 | 7 | 2 3 | 2 | 8 | 2 3 | 2 | 9 | 2 3 | 3 | 6 | 3 3 | 3 | 7 | 3 3 | 3 | 8 | 3 3 | 3 | 9 | 3 3 | 4 | 6 | 4 3 | 4 | 7 | 4 3 | 4 | 8 | 4 3 | 4 | 9 | 4 3 | 5 | 6 | 5 3 | 5 | 7 | 5 3 | 5 | 8 | 5 3 | 5 | 9 | 5 I was thinking, can vibration from a HDD cause issues? </straw clutching> :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted July 2, 2005 Share Posted July 2, 2005 Doubt it. Voltage looks a bit low though. Bump it up to 2.7x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afkamm Posted July 2, 2005 Author Share Posted July 2, 2005 The BIOS only gives me 4 options, 2.54v, 2.58v, 2.63v and 2.67v. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted July 2, 2005 Share Posted July 2, 2005 That's REALLY odd. Try 2.67 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted July 5, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted July 5, 2005 If the voltage did not resolve the issue, 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...
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