Mallion Posted January 8, 2005 Share Posted January 8, 2005 I purchased 1 gig (2x512 TwinX Memory Modules). The PC has been extremely unstable ever since I put the RAM in so I decided to test the memory with MemTest86. Everything was fine until the end of test #5. At that time MemTest86 showed a bunch of error's. I powered down the PC & grounded myself out, pulled out one of the memory sticks & tried MemTest86 again. Right off the bat I had a bunch of error's this time. I stopped the test at #3 & powered down the PC again. I swapped out the module with the one I had removed previously & started up Memtest86 again. It ran through 2 complete cycles without error & since I've removed the second stick my system seems to be a lot more stable. If there's a way for me to repair the RAM myself I'd be willing to do it. If not, I love the RAM & you guys make an awesome product so if it's alright I'd just like to send it in for a replacement. My PC Spec's: AMD 64 fx-53 Asus SK8V Motherboard 1Gig of TwinX XMS3200R 400MHz (Currently 512mb, Only One Stick In) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted January 10, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted January 10, 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...
Mallion Posted January 10, 2005 Author Share Posted January 10, 2005 I just have them set to optimal for the test. Normally I disable almost all of the onboard features except for the Gig-Lan. Other then that I really don't mess with much else other then turning off the IDE FastTrack thing. I only do that to speed up the PC boot. Since I've determined which one was the bad stick & have removed it from my system it hasn't crashed once. I was dealing with 4 to 5 crashed per day running WinXP Pro. I took it out Saturday morning & have been running 3 days now crash free. I received an RMA in my email but it states that because I have TWINX that I'll have to send in both sticks. Is there any way around this? I just started college. In-fact, today is my first day & sending in both sticks will leave me without a PC for roughly 2 weeks when you factor in shipping & testing time. Not only that but I make a large part of my income from my PC so shutting it down is basically like putting a crimp on my cash flow for 2 weeks. I paid over $450 for this RAM less then 6 months ago. That's over $225 a stick! I'm not happy with the fact that I may now have to shut down my PC for 2+ weeks to get something repaired that shouldn't have been broken in the first place. For a long while I couldn't figure out why in the hell my PC was so unstable. It had been ever since I built it. I didn't even test the RAM because it came in "tested pairs"! I just assumed that for $450+ the RAM would never be the issue. I don't mean to get an attitude I'm sorry. Normally I'm pretty level-headed. It's just the thought of having to shut down my PC for that long is making me pretty mad. Anyway. Let me know please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted January 10, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted January 10, 2005 Please go into the bios and load setup defaults and set the Dim Voltage to 2.7 Volts and enable master ECC and DRAM ECC and then test them again with http://www.memtest.org. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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