ktadema Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 First time poster here, and I'm not super computer savvy, soo....be easy on me! I bought a 512 MB RAM stick (400mhz) from Fry's 2 days ago. CMX512-3200C2 XMS3202v5.1 0505080-0 My mother board is Asus P4S8X-X I have another stick of RAM that is from Samsung, 512 MB DDR PC3200 I purchased the stick for gaming purposes, hoping to get better performance. 5 min after I started gaming, I encountered a flicker that caused my game to black screen. I would have called it a power flicker, but the computer did not reboot. I played on just to see what would happen and 5 min later, it happened again. At this point, I took the stick out and reseated it in another slot. The same problems re-occurred. I thought I had a bad stick, took it back to Fry's and exchanged it. Last night, I reseated the new part and again...flickering that causes the game to black screen, computer seemed okay though. So I don't think the problem is the stick of memory anymore!!! Any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted February 28, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted February 28, 2005 Please set the memory Frequency to DDR333 and set the Dim Voltage to 2.75 Volts with the modules in slots 1-3 and see if that will solve the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktadema Posted February 28, 2005 Author Share Posted February 28, 2005 I apologize for my ignorance. How do I go about changing my frequency and voltage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowbeard Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 Those changes should be detailed in the portion of the manual that addresses bios adjustments. Mike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktadema Posted March 1, 2005 Author Share Posted March 1, 2005 I've been thinking about this piece of advice I've gotten, to change my voltage and frequency. How come all of my other accessories are able to operate with the current voltage and frequencey, whatever that is, and this stick of Corsair Ram cannot? More importantly, how will changing my voltage and frequency affect my current set up? I don't like the potential ramifications of a possible bad frequency or voltage could be. I could very possibly end up with no computer, and you guys could just laugh at me and how stupid I am for destroying what I have. The more I think about it, the more irresponsible this seems to me. If everyone has to change their voltage and frequency just to get a stick of Ram to work, why would anyone buy this brand of Ram? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted March 1, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted March 1, 2005 Well this MB is based on the SIS648 Chipset and as such supports DDR333 according to SIS's chipset white papers. From ASUS Spec page on this MB! 3GHz+ CPU and Intel Hyper-Threading technology support Leveraging the SiS648 chipset to support Intel Hyper-Threading 3GHz+ P4 CPUs on 533MHz FSB, DDR333 memory, the P4S8X-X delivers a full-value, high-performance solution for today’s most demanding tasks. However, because ASUS also provides the user with the ability over clock their system they will remove the locks and limits with in the bios. Meaning you may have to manually set the Frequency. And all of our DDR1 modules are rated up to 2.9 Volts and I would suggest 2.7X Volts with most systems and just about any of our modules. You are welcome to try the default settings, but if that was working, I assume you would not have come to our forum. Not to be smart, just an observation. However, please try what ever you like and let me know if you have any questions or problems! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowbeard Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 I've been thinking about this piece of advice I've gotten, to change my voltage and frequency. How come all of my other accessories are able to operate with the current voltage and frequencey, whatever that is, and this stick of Corsair Ram cannot? More importantly, how will changing my voltage and frequency affect my current set up? I don't like the potential ramifications of a possible bad frequency or voltage could be. I could very possibly end up with no computer, and you guys could just laugh at me and how stupid I am for destroying what I have. The more I think about it, the more irresponsible this seems to me. If everyone has to change their voltage and frequency just to get a stick of Ram to work, why would anyone buy this brand of Ram? I'm not sure where the animosity is coming from but, rest assured no one here is going to give you advice that will destroy your computer. The reason that you have been advised to make some changes is that you have mixed to distinctly different types of RAM. Typically this is a BAD idea. When you do this, it is very likely you will invite instability. RAM GUY gave you the best settings possible to hopefully give you a stable system. These settings are conservative and well within the tolerances of the gear you have. As to the different voltages and frequencies, look at it this way. When you make internal changes to an automobile engine for example, it does not cause the tires to go flat. The internals of a MOBO+CPU+RAM combination are not going to cause the voltage to change in your optical drives, floppy, etc. As to why you have to make adjustments to your system manually, that is one thing you must accept when building/modifying your own computer. If you bought from Dell, Gateway, etc this is not an issue unless you decide to upgrade yourself. Give these changes a try and see if you can make your components work together. If not, post up and we'll see if we can help. Best of luck to you. Mike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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