Nique Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 hey, I've been having a problem with the twinx XMS3200 dual 512MB 400MHz sticks. Lately, I've been etting more and more blue screens concerning memory faults of various kinds. Hoped it might be a driver error, so I reformatted my hard drive, but still got BSOD's while installing windows again. finally got windows up, but am still getting BSODs every 15 min or so. tried using memtest 86 from boot up and ran it overnight; it came up with something like 14 errors. checking the warrenty information on the corsair site, it says I need to talk to the ram guy, so here I am. Am I correct in assuming my memory is bad? Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 What CPU / FSB / motherboard do you have? What is the exact part# and revision # of your memory? Is it a TwinX pack? What timings / voltage is your memory set to in your BIOS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nique Posted December 28, 2004 Author Share Posted December 28, 2004 I've got a 3.0 GHz pentium with an 800 MHz bus on an Abit IC7-G. Yes it is a twinX pack. I'm not sure which numbers are which, so here's all of them: CMX512-3200LLPT; XMS3205v1.2; 0328922;2326-T1; 400MHz; XMS3200; 512MB. Hope some of that is helpfull. will post again in a few minutes with RAM timings, got to boot up on that computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nique Posted December 28, 2004 Author Share Posted December 28, 2004 ok, ram timings are 2:5:2:2 I just have it set to auot spd. and the voltage is set to 2.6v. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nique Posted December 28, 2004 Author Share Posted December 28, 2004 oh, also, if I run 1 stick at a time, I still get errors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMC_SAVAGE Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 Try seting the timings to 2-3-2-6 @ 2.7 volts. The 14 errors could be due to incorrect timings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nique Posted December 28, 2004 Author Share Posted December 28, 2004 ok, problem, my BIOS only allow me to set the timings to 2, 2.3, or 3 for latency, 5, 6, 7, 8 for act to precharge, 2, 3, 4 for Dram to cas# delay, and 2, 3, 4 for dram precharge, whats up with that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMC_SAVAGE Posted December 29, 2004 Share Posted December 29, 2004 CAS Lantency: 2 RAS to CAS Delay: 3 ROW Prcharge: 2 Active to Precharge: 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nique Posted December 29, 2004 Author Share Posted December 29, 2004 No luck with the different timings, still blue screens in windows, but more often, wont even make it through windows startup without restarting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMC_SAVAGE Posted December 29, 2004 Share Posted December 29, 2004 Check the RAM with Memtest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted December 29, 2004 Corsair Employees Share Posted December 29, 2004 And if the timings were getting set to 2-2-2-5 please make sure you are not setting the performance mode to Turbo as that would make them fail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nique Posted December 30, 2004 Author Share Posted December 30, 2004 well, at the new timings you told me, I ran memtest overnight and still got errors.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted December 30, 2004 Corsair Employees Share Posted December 30, 2004 Please tell me the exact bios settings you had set. And what test you sre getting errors on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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