protaras Posted February 24, 2005 Share Posted February 24, 2005 Hi I recently purchased the above items for upgrade and wondered what may be going wrong I brought two Dual channel kits of 512mb value select sticks to fill all four slots on the motherboard, all ran fine for first day but when I ran memory intensive applications like video convertors and dvd rippers the system would restart. I swapped the ram around and found that when I moved the ram on the right to the left hand slots, the system would not boot, just give a stop error message, when they were returned it would work fine again until this occational restart. Do I need to contact my supplier with faulty ram or could it be somthing else ? Thanks ps. all bios settings are on original settings. 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 Please try and set the Dim Voltage to 1.9 Volts and then test the suspect modules with http://www.memtest.org. If you get errors with them, 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...
protaras Posted February 25, 2005 Author Share Posted February 25, 2005 Please try and set the Dim Voltage to 1.9 Volts and then test the suspect modules with http://www.memtest.org. If you get errors with them, please follow the link in my signature “I think I have a bad part!” and we will be happy to replace them or it! Ok, thank you, I actually tested the memory last night with the whole lot installed, it went through 24 cycles with 24 passes which surprised me. I see you say to test it one stick at a time in many other posts, could this have had an effect on the test ? This morning I upgraded the mobo bios and set the voltage to 1.9 like you said, shall I test the sticks one at a time with these new settings ? what a nightmare Thank you Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted February 25, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted February 25, 2005 Paul, I am not clear on what you have posted? So is the system working now with all of the modules installed? Or is the one module still failing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
protaras Posted March 2, 2005 Author Share Posted March 2, 2005 Paul, I am not clear on what you have posted? So is the system working now with all of the modules installed? Or is the one module still failing? Hi The system works for a time with all modules installed, eventually it will restart, about once a day, always when im playing online poker sadly enough! I tested the sticks individually and received no errors, so I dont know wheather this means the ram is an issue or not. I guess it maybe something else, although I have absolutly no idea what, I have reinstalled the system three times and changed harddrives. Can you explain any bios settings that must be changed to maybe fix the problem ? Thanks Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted March 2, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted March 2, 2005 Please try and set the Dim Voltage to 2.0 Volts and see if that helps. Also I would try the system with just 2 modules one day and then the other 2 the next to see if you can isolate this to one of your 2 sets of modules. And can you tell me the make and model of PSU you have? CPU External Frequency: Manually set to 200MHz DDR2 SDRAM Clock: Manually set to 533MHz DRAM Timing Selectable: Auto Yields the following timings SDRAM CAS Latency: 4T SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay (tRCD): 4T SDRAM Row Precharge (tRP): 4T SDRAM Active to Precharge Delay (tRAS): 12T DDR2 SDRAM Voltage: 2.0 All other settings are motherboard defaults. Maximum DDR2 recommended VDIM 2.1 Volts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
protaras Posted March 3, 2005 Author Share Posted March 3, 2005 Hi My PSU is the Antec NeoPower 480W ATX2.0. I will try those settings you suggest once ive tried something else. I ran debugger on a small memory dump that was made after one of the restarts, it revealed an error with ctaud2k.sys, after searching this file on google I found numerous people who had suffered restarts but mainly in games due to this file. Bearing in mind it usually restarts in poker I updated my sound card drivers to test, no restarts yet but ive yet to grind the system hard whilst doing a few things. I already tried moving the memory sticks around, but havent tried not using the left hand side slots, something else to try if the problem is still there. Thank you for your help Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted March 3, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted March 3, 2005 Please let me know how you make out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
protaras Posted March 7, 2005 Author Share Posted March 7, 2005 Please let me know how you make out! Hi Since I installed the new drivers the computer has not restarted once, amazing to think that the problem may now be gone! I had no problems with the sound card on my old system, there must be a major bug with it and my new memory or mobo with those old drivers. Thanks for your help and fingers crossed I dont return. Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted March 7, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted March 7, 2005 O.K. I will, but please check back with us and let us know how you make out if a few days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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