fresh22 Posted January 8, 2005 Share Posted January 8, 2005 Howdy, I have had my two sticks of CMX512-3200C2 memory for over a year now. They were running fine on my old system, specs as follows: Gigabyte GA7NNXP AMD Barton 2500+ Gigabyte 9800 Pro 256 WD SATA Raptor 10,000rpm Fortron FSP350-60PN PSU I recently purchased a MSI K8N Neo 2 Platinum motherboard and AMD 64 3200+ cpu and installed them in my system. I did a fresh install of Windows XP Pro and noticed some strange things right from the beginning. I had to restart Windows setup a couple of times to get it to atleast complete without errors. While running I start to notice a lot of small errors which I've never recieved before. I did some searching to find out that the AMD 64 chip are much pickier than other processors about RAM simply because it has the controller built into the chip. So I've downloaded Memtest86 and ran it with the first module installed - less than 30 minutes and its coming up with thousands of errors. Obviously something is wrong, so I've stopped it and am now trying the second stick. So far the second stick has passed 31% without errors - the first stick was erroring below 24%. I'm going to let it finish and run it multiple times on each chip to make sure this is the problem, but if it is the problem I will be requesting an RMA unless some wise fellow computer geek can offer me a suggestion! Thanks for listing, fresh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fresh22 Posted January 8, 2005 Author Share Posted January 8, 2005 The second chip has been running for over 45 minutes now ... going to pop the first one back in and see if it reproduces the same errors as before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fresh22 Posted January 8, 2005 Author Share Posted January 8, 2005 Ok I've popped the first chip back in and again the errors come up. Funny though, it starts exactly on 510mb and goes up from there. I dunno how ram works, I guess its broken down into 32mb incraments or something? Perhaps one of the 32mb chips on my stick is borked? Going to put the good chip back in and boot to windows, see if I see any problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fresh22 Posted January 8, 2005 Author Share Posted January 8, 2005 Well, because I'm anal I've gone ahead and re-installed Windows with only the good chip in... wow did it ever install fast. Its up and running beautifully now. I am 100% sure this is a bad stick of ram. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fresh22 Posted January 9, 2005 Author Share Posted January 9, 2005 Just another quick update - I have been running the PC all day with the 1 stick of ram and it has been running like a dream. I popped in the bad stick to run Memtest86 longer and it came up with errors again. 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 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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