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1GB Value Select Dual Channel Problems


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I recently purchased 1G of value select dual channel memory. I put it into a brand new system, and it has never been quite stable. After Prime95 repeatedly gave me a rounding error, I decided to run memcheck over night. To my suprise, a few thousand errors occured on different tests. Before I try and RMA the memory, what should I set my bios to? The motherboard is a Asus A8N SLi-Deluxe (with a AMD64 3200+, if thats at all relevant), I haven't modified any of the memory or CPU options in the bios as far as I know, so it should be running at whatever the default is.
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Please put the memory modules on either slots 1&3 or 2&4; make sure that you have the latest BIOS installed for your MB; load optimized/set up default, and set the following BIOS settings;

VS1GBKIT400 or VS512MB400

Advanced CPU/Memory Configuration:

Memclock Mode: Limit

Memclock Value: 2:1 (DDR400)

Bank Interleaving: 4/Enabled

Burst Length: 8

SDRAM CAS Latency: 2.5T

SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay (tRCD): 3T

SDRAM Active to Precharge Delay (tRAS): 8T

SDRAM Row Precharge (tRP): 3T

2T Command Rate: Enabled

Jumper Free/Frequency Voltage Control:

AI Overclock Tuner: Manual

CPU FSB Clock: 200

DDR Voltage: 2.75 Volts

AGP Voltage: Default *unless you have ATI (9200 or 9600) or NVIDIA (5200 or 5700) then 1.6 Volts suggested!*

PEG Mode: Disabled

SLI Mode: Auto if you have 2 PCI Express Card, or Disabled if you only have one.

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!

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Please put the memory modules on either slots 1&3 or 2&4; make sure that you have the latest BIOS installed for your MB; load optimized/set up default, and set the following BIOS settings;

VS1GBKIT400 or VS512MB400

Advanced CPU/Memory Configuration:

Memclock Mode: Limit

Memclock Value: 2:1 (DDR400)

Bank Interleaving: 4/Enabled

Burst Length: 8

SDRAM CAS Latency: 2.5T

SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay (tRCD): 3T

SDRAM Active to Precharge Delay (tRAS): 8T

SDRAM Row Precharge (tRP): 3T

2T Command Rate: Enabled

Jumper Free/Frequency Voltage Control:

AI Overclock Tuner: Manual

CPU FSB Clock: 200

DDR Voltage: 2.75 Volts

AGP Voltage: Default *unless you have ATI (9200 or 9600) or NVIDIA (5200 or 5700) then 1.6 Volts suggested!*

PEG Mode: Disabled

SLI Mode: Auto if you have 2 PCI Express Card, or Disabled if you only have one.

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!

 

VS1GBKIT400 is what I have, I had already updated the bios, I loaded the default and set all the settings you said to (except burst length/bank interleaving, I couldn't find those two in the bios). Ran memtest again, its still coming up with errors in test 5 and 7. RMA time?

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