mattmellinger Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 I have an ASUS P4C800 Deluxe motherboard with dual sticks of XMS-3200 ram. Formatted my hard drive and while installing windows I get blue screened at after copying all the install files. Took the bad module out, and everything works fine, put it back in and same symptoms as before. I used memtest 1.51 on each stick separately. The one bad stick reported errors during testing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted February 18, 2005 Corsair Employee Share Posted February 18, 2005 Can you tell me the exact model# of your memory module and please tell me if you purchased that module as a pair or set; also what is the CPU speed, and the FSB as well that you have in your system? In addition, please tell me if you have the latest BIOS installed on your system and what 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...
mattmellinger Posted February 18, 2005 Author Share Posted February 18, 2005 I bought two sticks of the XMS memory from http://www.googlegear.com which is now http://www.zipzoomfly.com. 05/2003 Corsair Platinum Series XMS3205v1.1 Ultra-performance DDR memory 0318059 CMX 512_3200 LLPT XMS XTREME MEMORY SPEED XMS3200 512 MB 400mhz 2226-TI Processor: P4 3.4ghz Motherbaord: ASUS P4C800 Deluxe BIOS version 1019 FSB: 800mhz Seagate Serial ATA 80Gig harddrive XFX GeForce 6600GT All Default settings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted February 22, 2005 Share Posted February 22, 2005 Bumps have been removed since Ram Guy won't be back till tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted February 22, 2005 Corsair Employee Share Posted February 22, 2005 Please try and set the Rass to Cass to "3" and set the Dim Voltage to 2.75 Volts and then test the modules one at a time with http://www.memtest.org. Also when running http://www.memtest.org please disable legacy USB support as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattmellinger Posted February 22, 2005 Author Share Posted February 22, 2005 I'll try setting the CAS to 3 and voltage when I get home from work. I got tired of having my PC down so I went to Fry's last night and picked up a Gig of Corsair DDR TWINX1024 3200XL. Did Memtest on both of them to make sure it wasn't my board and it worked fine. Windows installed without a problem. If I get my old RAM to work can I use them in addition to the new sticks I bought? Will the old ram slow down the new ram? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted February 23, 2005 Corsair Employee Share Posted February 23, 2005 They might, but you will have to run with more relaxed settings. Like Cass 2-3-3-6 at 2.85 Volts. But please test the other modules by them selves and if you do still get errors please follow the link in my signature “I think I have a bad part!” and we will be happy to replace them or it! P.S. please make sure legacy USB is turned off in the bios when running http://www.memtest.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattmellinger Posted February 24, 2005 Author Share Posted February 24, 2005 I did what you said but both sticks still fail memtest version 151. :[pouts: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted February 24, 2005 Corsair Employee Share Posted February 24, 2005 That would suggest some other problem, can you test the modules in another system? And can you tell me the exact settings you had set in the bios? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattmellinger Posted February 25, 2005 Author Share Posted February 25, 2005 I disabled the Legacy USB support but I could not find where to change the CAS to 3 or the Voltage to 2.75. I bought the RAM for CAS 2 and expect the product to run at its promised speed. I do not have another system to test the ram in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted February 25, 2005 Corsair Employee Share Posted February 25, 2005 Under Jumper Free AI Over Clock Tuner: Manual Dim Voltage: 2.75 Volts System Performance: Auto Under Advanced Chipset/ Memory Configuration Memory Timings: Manual CAS Latency CL=2.0 Ras# to CAS# delay tRCD 3 Min Ras# Active Time tRAS 6 Row Precharge Time tRP 2 Under USB Configuration Legacy USB: Disabled Then please test the modules one at a time with http://www.memtest.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattmellinger Posted February 27, 2005 Author Share Posted February 27, 2005 My mother is board is an ASUS P4C800 Deluxe BIOS version 1019 I set the following DRAM CAS# LATENCY 2 DRAM RAS# PRECHARGE 2 DRAM RAS# TO CAS# DELAY 3 DRAM PRECHARGE DELAY 5 DRAM BURST LENGTH 4 The ram appears to work fine now. Are these setting correct for high performance? I could not make any of them any lower. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 CAS Latency: 2 RAS to CAS Delay (tRCD): 3 Row Precharge (tRP): 2 Active to Precharge Delay (tRAS): 6 Those are the correct timings for 3200LLs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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