Communist Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Hello. I have been experiencing the very odd crash during gaming, and now more recently, most of my bittorrent downloads only go to 99.9% which I'm told can be attributed to bad memory. I went and downloaded memtest and ran it, to find I get 2 errors in test #4. I then took out two of my three modules and tested each individually. Nothing showed up... I then put two in, and the errors started posting again. I'm not sure how to interpret this and I don't see how in the world it's going to help me figure out which, if not all, of my sticks are bad. Here are my specs. Memory: 2xCorsair Platinum Series XMS TWINX CMX256A-3200LLPT rev. 1.2 1xCorsair Platinum Series XMS CMX512A-3200LLPT rev. 1.1 Motherboard: ASUS A7N8X-DX rev. 1.4 Video: ATi 9800 PRO 128mb CPU: Althon XP 2700+ TB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted February 10, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted February 10, 2005 Please set these timings and test the modules one at a time with http://www.memrest.org. CPU Freq: 166 MHz System performance: User Define Memory Frequency: 100% Dim Voltage to 2.7 Volts Resulting Frequency: 166MHz SDRAM CAS Latency: 2T SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay (tRCD): 3T SDRAM Row Precharge (tRP): 2T SDRAM Active to Precharge Delay (tRAS): 6T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Communist Posted February 23, 2006 Author Share Posted February 23, 2006 Ok I remember testing them individually at the recomended voltage and no errors showing up in memtest, but the issues outlined above remained. Then as time went on a new symptom arose with Windows never closing windows explorer properly, thus every time I went to reboot, it would say END TASK: Explorer. I was fairly certain to this was attributed to the memory, as were all my other problems. Just yesterday I replaced everything on my computer but the same RAM as above, and the same persistent errors remain, especially that END TASK: Explorer error, which can't be good. Anyway I was just wondering what settings I should put the BIOS at with the new motherboard to run memtest. I have an MSI NF4 K8N-F 3800+ Ath-64 Geforce 7800 GT 256mb. The RAM was set to 2-3-2-6, mem voltage 2.7 I'm gonna go put in some old PC2100 ram to test it while I wait for a response. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted February 23, 2006 Corsair Employees Share Posted February 23, 2006 Let's get them both replaced. Please follow the link in my signature “I think I have a bad part! Or *New* Tech Support Express” and we will be happy to replace them or it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Communist Posted February 23, 2006 Author Share Posted February 23, 2006 One question, would it be possible to replace my twinx with a single module of 512 so that I'll have two 512's instead of 2x256 and one 512. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted February 24, 2006 Corsair Employees Share Posted February 24, 2006 Please either call our customer service at 888-222-4346 and dial "0" or follow the link in my signature "If you have submitted the RMA using the on line form and have not got a reply!" And you can ask them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Communist Posted February 24, 2006 Author Share Posted February 24, 2006 I just ram memtest one each of the new modules at 2.7V, 2-3-2-5 and no errors after two passes, then I ran it with all of them in for one pass, no errors. Do you think that points to something else causing the end task error etc? Could it possibly be the hard drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted February 24, 2006 Corsair Employees Share Posted February 24, 2006 Yes that would suggest some other problem, but what MB are you using to test these and how is it configured? You gave two different MB's and the AMD 64 system will not support three modules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Communist Posted February 24, 2006 Author Share Posted February 24, 2006 I just tested it on the MSI board w/ the 64-bit processor. And yea the MB manual says not to put three in, but with one in, it still gives those errors. I had two in the green (2x256) and the 512 in the purple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Communist Posted February 24, 2006 Author Share Posted February 24, 2006 I ran memtest86+ overnight and got no errors (9 hours) with the 3 modules in. Now I'm really baffled. I'll try another power supply, and hard drive, since those along with the memory are what I carried over to the new computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted February 24, 2006 Corsair Employees Share Posted February 24, 2006 You might try with just the 2 256 Meg modules and low level format your HDD and then do a fresh format and install of the O.S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Communist Posted February 25, 2006 Author Share Posted February 25, 2006 Well it seems as though it was a virus in one of the programs I always install right after a format. Glad I finally nailed it. Sry for the waste of time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted February 27, 2006 Corsair Employees Share Posted February 27, 2006 No problem, glad you found the problem. Please let us know if you have any questions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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