lardad Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 I have a problem in getting VS1GBKIT400C3 to work in my ECS PT800CE-A motherboard. The motherboard came with a Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz 1 MB Socket 487 Prescott Hyperthreading processor I recently installed Phoenix Award BIOS 1.1b I do not seem to be able to make changes in my BIOS settings. When I run the Windows memory diagnostic I get hundreds of thousands of errors in LRAND and WMATS+ 8 errors in MATS, 16 in INVC, 451 in Stride 6 The diagnostic is not able to identify the module having the errros. Memtest-86 v3.2 also gives page after page of errors. I had this problem several weeks ago, and sent back the memory to ZipZoomFly, who reportedly tested it, found errors and sent me new memory. Now I am getting the same results with the new memory. Do you think I had the bad luck to get 2 successive sets of bad memory? Please help - this was my daughter's Christmas present and now it's February! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted February 8, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted February 8, 2005 Can you test the modules one at a time in another system with http://www.memtest.org? And no I would suspect some other problem. Also you might check that you have the latest bios for the MB as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lardad Posted February 8, 2005 Author Share Posted February 8, 2005 No - I do not have another similar system. The bios date is in late december, 2004 Any suggestions? Thanks Can you test the modules one at a time in another system with http://www.memtest.org? And no I would suspect some other problem. Also you might check that you have the latest bios for the MB as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted February 9, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted February 9, 2005 Lets try replacing the module. 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...
hollifred Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 I recently bought the exact same motherboard and processor. Having the same problem here. Found that i can run either chip of memory in either slot and have no problems as long as I don't run both chips at once. I get a blue screen error 0x000000A or 0x0000008E. Should I switch out the memory or should I go with another motherboard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted February 11, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted February 11, 2005 What is the exact part# and revision of both modules? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollifred Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 Motherboard is PT800CE-A. REV: 1.0A. Memory is VS1GBKIT400 lot#0503023-0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted February 11, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted February 11, 2005 Did you try and set the Dim Voltage to 2.7X Volts, and have you tried to test the modules one at a time with http://www.memtest.org? If you can you might test them one up in another system as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lardad Posted February 15, 2005 Author Share Posted February 15, 2005 I got an Asus P4P800 SE. The memory now works like a charm. It must be a common problem, since they are updating the BIOS every couple of weeks on the ECS board. (My last update was 1.1e) Since I got the motherboard bundled with an Intel processor at a great price, I tossed the motherboard in the trash! (It's not worth all the aggravation.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted February 15, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted February 15, 2005 Well I am glad you got your system up and running. Please let me know if you have any questions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mynamesgrady Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Well I am glad you got your system up and running. Please let me know if you have any questions! Ok, I have the same motherboard PT800CE-A. REV: 1.0A. with a P4 3.0E CPU running the VS1GBKIT400 LOT#0452018 Other than just throwing the motherboard out, is there a REAL solution to this? I am having the same memory error problems as the above poster. Memtest86 gives me the same errors on Test #5 in the same memory address range every time I run it. All the BIOS memory options are set as default as conservative as they go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted February 24, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted February 24, 2005 Can you test the modules in another system? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agoattamer Posted March 3, 2005 Share Posted March 3, 2005 The first thing is to update the bios to a newer version. Check out this ECS website page and download the newest bios: http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWeb/Downloads/ProductsDetail_Download.aspx?DetailID=423&DetailName=BIOS&DetailDesc=PT800CE-A(1.0)&MenuID=41&LanID=0 Search the web for awd830.exe to use as fashing program. Winflash is too easy to make your mobo a pile of garbage. Then bumb up your dram regulator in bios to +6%. This will get you closest to the voltage this memory requires (2.7v) even though it is listed everywhere at 2.5v. Let me know how you make out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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