Crom451 Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 I recently experienced a system crash. The system would not boot - it simply stalled during the boot process. I opened another system and replaced components one-at-a-time, hoping to find the device causing the problem. I found that when I substituted in my XMS3500, the good machine failed to boot. I tried both sticks and then each, individually - receiving failures all three times. I replaced the original stick of DDR into the good machine and it booted fine. None of my other components caused any trouble with the new machine. 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 Can you tell me the make and model of MB you have along with 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...
Crom451 Posted January 12, 2005 Author Share Posted January 12, 2005 Motherboard = Gigabyte 8IK1100 ver. 2 CPU = Intel Pentium 4 3.0c FSB = 800Mhz Memory = 512MB DDR3500 OS = Windows XP Pro I dabbled a little with the BIOS settings about a year ago, but I prefer stability - as the overclocking seemed to unsettle the whole system, and thus I never overclock anything. I am running everything stock - as it came right out of the box. The Gigabyte board also has performance enhancements by way of another BIOS utility, I do not use that either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted January 12, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted January 12, 2005 Please make sure that you have the latest BIOS for your MB and load Setup/optimized default settings, and try the following BIOS settings; CMX512-3500 Advanced Chipset Features (Ctrl + F1) DRAM Clock: 400 MHz Configure Dram timing by SPD: Disabled/User define SDRAM CAS Latency: 2T SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay (tRCD): 3T SDRAM Row Precharge (tRP): 3T SDRAM Active to Precharge Delay (tRAS): 7T SDRAM Burst Length: 8 SDRAM Bank Interleave: 4/Auto/Enabled SDRAM Command Rate: 1T Frequency Voltage Control CPU Freq: 200 Memory or Dim Reference voltage: 2.7/2.75 Volts (+.2) AGP Voltage: Default *unless you have ATI 9200 or 9600 then 1.6 Volts suggested!* All other settings should be set to default settings! Then please test them one at a time with http://www.memtest.org and let’s make sure it's not some other issue! I would run the test for at least 2-3 passes to be sure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crom451 Posted January 13, 2005 Author Share Posted January 13, 2005 The system will not POST at all. Please re-read my original message. The Corsair RAM brings the good system down so hard that will not even wake and cry out loud. I'm not trying to be a pain here, but I have most assuredly verified that the RAM is bad. I'm a network engineer/pc tech. I do this for a living. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted January 13, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted January 13, 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...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.