Mize Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 I'm not stable at 200 MHz with my 3200LL at specified timings. I'm fine at 166 MHz and at 194 MHz in my old nForce 2 board (Abit A7NX whatever). I'm Prime95ing now at CL 2.5 to see if that helps. Any ideas? I'm running an Antec true power 400 W supply. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mize Posted December 28, 2004 Author Share Posted December 28, 2004 Nah, can't Prime95 at CL 2.5 either. Guess I'm off to 166 MHz land for now. I suppose I could "steal" the OCZ from my kids' computer ...? 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 Can you tell me the CPU speed and it’s FSB as well? In addition, please 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...
Mize Posted December 28, 2004 Author Share Posted December 28, 2004 Can you tell me the CPU speed and it’s FSB as well? In addition, please tell me the bios settings you have set for both CPU and memory and any performance settings that you may have set? Athlon 64 3500+ at 2.2 GHz (I'm overclocking nothing). Almost everything in the BIOS is at default. BIOS is 1.4. I've tried auto on RAM and CMD 1T, CL=2, tRCD=3, tRP=2, tRAS=6. I've tried CMD 2T as well and CL=2.5 too. I've upped vdimm a little but seen no benefit. Sitting auto right now with 2.7 max. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mize Posted December 29, 2004 Author Share Posted December 29, 2004 Rock solid at 166 MHz... Any more ideas? Overvolt? RMA? 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 Ok well that is not what you listed in the first post. What slots do you have them in and yes I would try and set the dim voltage to 2.7 Volts and install the modules in slots 1-3 or 2-3 and see if that makes a difference. And have you tested the modules one at a time? And did you set any of the performance options in the bios? I think they call it Game Accelerator or something like that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mize Posted December 29, 2004 Author Share Posted December 29, 2004 Ok well that is not what you listed in the first post. What slots do you have them in and yes I would try and set the dim voltage to 2.7 Volts and install the modules in slots 1-3 or 2-3 and see if that makes a difference. And have you tested the modules one at a time? And did you set any of the performance options in the bios? I think they call it Game Accelerator or something like that? By "specified" in the first post I was refering to Corsair's site (2-2-2-6). Anyway, I can't even POST with them in 1-2 but I'm okay at 166 in 2-3. Haven't yet tried 1-3 as that's not DDR on the MSI board. Of course one stick isn't DDR either, but I might be able to figure out if one or the other is bad through this exercise. If one is bad, then they're both really bad as they're a matched pair, right? MSI has a auto speed thing in the bios but I've not mucked with that or any other performance setting yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mize Posted December 29, 2004 Author Share Posted December 29, 2004 Here are some other BIOS settings..haven't swapped sticks around yet (too busy with kid stuff): High performance: manual aggressive timings: disabled dynamic overclock: disabled spread spectrum: enabled HT freq.: 5X cool n quiet: disabled adjust cpu freq: startup cpu fsb: 200 agp freq: 66 cpu vid: 1.5v prime95 all night @ 166 MHz but none @ 200 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mize Posted December 31, 2004 Author Share Posted December 31, 2004 Here's the latest - please help! My sticks are XMS3205v1.1 / CMX256A-3200LL and were a "Twinx" matched pair. Both have "0304081" on them. I use banks 3 & 4 for DDR on the MSI K8N-Neo2-P as they're easier to get to with my XP-90 HSF. Stick 1 (alone in bank 3) will Prime without errors at 200 MHz, 2-3-2-6 CMD 1T Stick 2 (alone in bank 3) will not boot with these settings. Stick 2 (alone) will Prime without errors (all night) at 200 MHz, 2.5-3-2-6 CMD 2T. The machine does NOT like to boot with Stick 2 in bank 3. The machine FAILS Prime95 quickly with both sticks at 200 MHz, 2.5-3-2-6 CMD 2T. (Stick 2 is in bank 4 to allow it to boot) Help! Thanks. PS: I noted one other minor thing...MBM reports Vcore at 1.35 volts with two sticks at 200 MHz and 1.36-1.38 volts with 2 at 166 MHz...I supposed I could up my Vcore...? Doesn't explain the one stick not working at CL2 however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mize Posted January 3, 2005 Author Share Posted January 3, 2005 Bump. Is this where I just do the RMA request thingy? Thanks and happy new year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mize Posted January 4, 2005 Author Share Posted January 4, 2005 Bumpity bump? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted January 4, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted January 4, 2005 We can try replacing your modules, but what you have posted suggests some other problem. Please follow the directions under "I think I have a bad module" under this forum or if you have trouble, Please send us a email with a copy of the form or all of your info name address and phone# and the Module part# and copy the link to this post and email it to Rma@corsairmemory.com. If after 1 day or 24 hours excluding weekends you do not get the rma please email the same to warranty@corsairmemory.com and we will help to resolve it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mize Posted January 4, 2005 Author Share Posted January 4, 2005 We can try replacing your mpdules, but what you have posted suggests some other problem. Please follow the directions under "I think I have a bad module" under this forum or if you have trouble, Please send us a email with a copy of the form or all of your info name address and phone# and the Module part# and copy the link to this post and email it to Rma@corsairmemory.com. If after 1 day or 24 hours excluding weekends you do not get the rma please email the same to warranty@corsairmemory.com and we will help to resolve it. I'm happy to try other things, but when one module alone runs fine and the other won't boot in the same slot with the same timings things seem weird. Let me know. Eric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted January 5, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted January 5, 2005 Lets try replacing the modules! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mize Posted January 11, 2005 Author Share Posted January 11, 2005 Lets try replacing the modules! Got them today. At first I was totally bummed. I put the new sticks in 3 & 4 (DDR) which were the only two that the last pair worked with as one alone wouldn't boot in slot 1. Anyway, it was totally unstable at rated settings...programs crashing, Prime95 crashing, etc. Tried 2.7 and 2.75 Vdimm to no avail. Then I tried them in slots 1 & 2 (where the others wouldn't boot) and it's rock solid so far. Sandra of 5962/5919 at 200 MHz. Funky board that it likes one pair in 3/4 and another in 1/2. Thanks!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted January 11, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted January 11, 2005 If the system is up and running I would leave them there. But yes this platform seems to be a bit picky with memory! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mize Posted January 12, 2005 Author Share Posted January 12, 2005 I'm not moving them! Prime95 all night with no errors - Yay! The only bummer is I think this means that populateing 3 & 4 with more Twinx 3200LL is out and I'll have to go to a 2x512 to hit a gig instead of 4x256. Oh well. Thanks!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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