mcgyver100 Posted March 11, 2005 Share Posted March 11, 2005 Hi RamGuy, My Corssair Twinx 512MB (2x 256MB XMS3205v1.1) is a little older than one year. It worked fine until now.But recently I started getting BSODs,games kept crashing and system stability programs like Prime95 would not run anymore. I figured that it might be the Ram so I used 2 programms to test the 2 modules. I used MemTest from http://hcidesign.com/ and also Memtest86+ ! One module works just fine-the system is stable again.No crashes anymore! It passes all the memory tests ! The other module seems to be faulty. When using MemTest from http://hcidesign.com/ I get many errors within a few minutes. The working module didn't cause any errors in hours! This is why I am pretty certain that one module is not working like it's supposed to. I live in Germany. Is there a Corsair branch in Germany I can send the faulty module to ?Shipping to the US would be kinda pricy ! Thank you for your support, Regards, mcgyver100 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted March 11, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted March 11, 2005 Can you tell me the make and model of MB you have along with the CPU speed and it’s FSB as well? In addition, please tell me the 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...
mcgyver100 Posted March 11, 2005 Author Share Posted March 11, 2005 OK: I have an AMD Athlon64 3000+ Winchester CPU ,MSI Neo2 Platinum Mainboard ! The CPU is running at 1800Mhz - FBS200.All memory settings are set to Auto which sets the memory to 2-2-2-6 ! Memory is running at 200Mhz,voltage is set to Auto as well ! No performance settings have been set/everything is set to default ! Thanks, mcgyver100 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted March 11, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted March 11, 2005 Please set the timings manually and set the Dim Voltage to 2.7 Volts: Dim Voltage to +.2 Volts: CAS Latency CL=2.0 Row Cycle Time tRC Bios Default Row Refresh Cyc Time tRFC Bios Default Ras# to CAS# delay tRCD 3 Row to Row delay Bios Default Min Ras# Active Time tRAS 6 Row Precharge Time tRP 2 Write Recovery Time Bios Default Write to Read delay Bios Default Read to Write Delay Bios Default Refresh Period tREF Bios Default Enable 2T Timing Disabled Then test the system with http://www.memtest.org and make sure it's stable! If you have problems, I would set Enable 2T Timings to AUTO and test it again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcgyver100 Posted March 12, 2005 Author Share Posted March 12, 2005 Hi Ram Guy, Setting the tRCD to 3 did it. The other settings didn't matter. The system runs stable when the tRCD is set to 3!But doesn't this mean,that this one module is faulty anyway because it should be able to run at a tRCD of 2 without making my system instable. The working module can be set to tRCD 2 and still the system will run. The sticker on the module says that its speed is 2-2-2-6 ! Thank for your help, mcgyver100 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted March 13, 2005 Share Posted March 13, 2005 Depends. What is the part # of your memory? 3200, 3200LL, 3200C2, or 3200XL? FYI, Athlon64 CPUs are known to not like the tRCD being set to 2, so that may be the problem as well, but please post the part # anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcgyver100 Posted March 13, 2005 Author Share Posted March 13, 2005 Hi, The part # is CMX256A 3200LL ! Thanks, mcgyver100 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted March 14, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted March 14, 2005 XMS3200LL should be Cass 2-3-2-6 with the Rass to Cass set to "3", so you should be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcgyver100 Posted March 17, 2005 Author Share Posted March 17, 2005 Thanks for your help but I still think there's something wrong because the sticker on the Ram says , 2-2-2-6 , which means it should work with the trcd set to 2.Another weird thing is that one module works when the trcd is set to 2 and the other one doesn't ! Plus both modules used to work with the timings set to 2-2-2-6! I don't get it :( XMS3200LL should be Cass 2-3-2-6 with the Rass to Cass set to "3", so you should be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted March 18, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted March 18, 2005 No, we change the spec on this part just for this reason, some MB's just would not run well with the Rass to Cass set to 2. Please try the settings I gave you and test with http://www.memtest.org to be sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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