Neverender Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Athlon XP 2500+ (Barton) Soltek SL-75FRN2-L CMX512-3200C2 (x1) FSB: 166 MHz, RAM had been running at 2-3-3-7 as indicated by the SPD, and has never had a problem before. No overclocking, hardware changes or BIOS configuration changes in the almost two years I've had the computer. A few days ago, Windows spontaneously manifested a habit of "recovering from a serious error" -- it happened four times in 12 hours after not happening a single time prior -- and I stuck in a SuSE CD and ran Memtest86. Consistent failures across four consecutive full passes. I reset my BIOS, downloaded a newer Memtest86 and ran (and failed) again...then forced various other timings (among them: 2-2-2-5/6, 2-3-3-6/7, 2.5-3-3-6/7) and ran through a single pass of a single test of Memtest86 with each. Perfectly reproducible failures. RAM was purchased from Newegg in mid-2003, I still have a copy of the invoice, though none of the original packaging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted February 16, 2005 Corsair Employee Share Posted February 16, 2005 Please try and load setup defaults and then set the settings manually CPU Freq: 166 MHz Memory Frequency: 100% Dim Voltage to 2.7 Volts Resulting Frequency: 166MHz SDRAM CAS Latency: 2.5T SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay (tRCD): 3T SDRAM Row Precharge (tRP): 3T SDRAM Active to Precharge Delay (tRAS): 6T And test the modules one at a time with http://www.memtest.org to be sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neverender Posted February 17, 2005 Author Share Posted February 17, 2005 Please try and load setup defaults and then set the settings manually CPU Freq: 166 MHz Memory Frequency: 100% Dim Voltage to 2.7 Volts Resulting Frequency: 166MHz SDRAM CAS Latency: 2.5T SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay (tRCD): 3T SDRAM Row Precharge (tRP): 3T SDRAM Active to Precharge Delay (tRAS): 6T And test the modules one at a time with http://www.memtest.org to be sure. Loaded defaults, then manually specified: 2.5-3-3-6, 2.7 volts, 166 MHz, only module in the computer. Same results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted February 17, 2005 Corsair Employee Share Posted February 17, 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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