mickd Posted March 14, 2005 Share Posted March 14, 2005 Hi, Just put my new PC together with the above mention MB & RAM, HIS IceQ 9800 pro, Soundblaster 5.1Platinum, SATA HDD's, Enermax EG465p-VE(FMA) PSU....my problem is that when I play Call of Duty the PC will sometimes reboot or the game will stop, I have the RAM in DDR's 1 @ 2, Bios settings for RAM is set to 'AUTO' & MB not overclocked................I feel it is a RAM problem as I experienced similar when I updated RAM on another PC, which ceased after moving RAM to different slots. Any Ideas ? Thanks in Advance 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 Please make sure that you have the latest bios and then load setup/optimized defaults and set the Dim Over Voltage control to +.2 Volts and test the modules one at a time with http://www.memtest.org. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeghoofd Posted March 14, 2005 Share Posted March 14, 2005 What driver are you using for the ATI card my friend ? Up the AGP voltage to 1.6 volts and disable fastwritess concerning the vidcard (in bios and in smartgard tab of the ATI card. Also if it isn't the ram ( both modules pass the ramtest) lock AGP to 4X ( you won't notice much of a speed loss it ain't that important, AGP4X , fastwritess off are the most common cures for ill behaviour with ATI 9xxx range cards. Let us know what gives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickd Posted March 15, 2005 Author Share Posted March 15, 2005 Please make sure that you have the latest bios and then load setup/optimized defaults and set the Dim Over Voltage control to +.2 Volts and test the modules one at a time with http://www.memtest.org. Hi, Thanks, have tested memory using memtest86 v1.51 , standard test.....no errors,RAM settings are: 210mhz(DDR402) CAS 3-4-3-8, dual channel (128 bits) mem map...PROBED, cache..ON, ecc..OFF. latest BIOS & all bios setting to AUTO HOWEVER, and I don't know the test program at all, when I selected 'memory sizing' in config & selected option2 'Bios all', I got 1000's of errors !!!! what would be the best settings to use ? thanks again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted March 15, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted March 15, 2005 Just use the default tests. And if you select bios all that is normal as that would be for an older style of bios/MB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickd Posted March 17, 2005 Author Share Posted March 17, 2005 What driver are you using for the ATI card my friend ? Up the AGP voltage to 1.6 volts and disable fastwritess concerning the vidcard (in bios and in smartgard tab of the ATI card. Also if it isn't the ram ( both modules pass the ramtest) lock AGP to 4X ( you won't notice much of a speed loss it ain't that important, AGP4X , fastwritess off are the most common cures for ill behaviour with ATI 9xxx range cards. Let us know what gives. Hi, Thanks, have tried that but with no joy....not sure how to increase voltage to VidCard....I am using 4.12 driver at the moment , tried 5.3 but experienced the same prob which is why I am using 4.12 now...in an attempt to troubleshoot. Mick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted March 17, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted March 17, 2005 Mick it should be listed in your bios, but I think with Giga-buye you have to hit CNTRL + F1 at the main bios screen to see all of the hidden options. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickd Posted March 26, 2005 Author Share Posted March 26, 2005 Well, i got the memory but my Gigabyte motherboard just doesnt seem to like it running duel channel. Memtest ran for about 1 hour w/o any errors however Prime95 would fail almost immediately. Tried playing EQ2 for awhile but it would always crash to desktop. If I run with each memory stick by itself (i.e 1gb) everything is fine. If I run both sticks in single channel mode everything is ok. If run the memory in duel channel mode, 400mhz on my girfriends PC which has a MSI Neo2 Plat MB everything is fine. Im able to run some Twinx1024-3200 C2PT (2x512) in DC mode at 400mhz without any problems...just not these 2048-3200 C2. So I know the memory is good...its just its not compatible with my Gigabyte. I really want a 2gb system so i think im just gonna get myself an MSI..something I would have done originally if I had known how picky the Gigabyte MB was about memory. On a bright note...2gb really does improove EQ2 and my girlfriend is quite happy =P same board, same RAM...I ram memtest86 over & over and never found any problems, I recently ran memtest 3.1 2005, a windows based tester & found errors immediately...now I know it's the RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted March 26, 2005 Share Posted March 26, 2005 Don't test with windows based memory testers, as they can fail based on windows problems, can cannot test parts of the memory that windows is using. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickd Posted March 27, 2005 Author Share Posted March 27, 2005 Don't test with windows based memory testers, as they can fail based on windows problems, can cannot test parts of the memory that windows is using. I hear what ya say but surely with a fresh instal of XP on a newly formatted drive (GA-K8NSNXP-939 & AMD 64 3500 )there can't be too many problems....certainly found heaps (20plus) errors with the Corsair TWINX1024-3200C2, ran the same memory on a 2nd PC (A7V333 & AMD 3000+ & came up with errors also, early days yet but since putting Kingston RAM from 2nd PC into the GA-K8NSNXP and running the windows based tester NO errors were detected....here's hoping ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted March 27, 2005 Share Posted March 27, 2005 The problem is, Windows uses a couple hundred MB by itself. Memory tester that's Windows based can't test that section of the memory because it's currently in use. If it does, it may pop up errors unrelated to the actual memory. If other memory works fine in it, it's probably bad though. Did you test it with the +.02 volts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickd Posted March 27, 2005 Author Share Posted March 27, 2005 The problem is, Windows uses a couple hundred MB by itself. Memory tester that's Windows based can't test that section of the memory because it's currently in use. If it does, it may pop up errors unrelated to the actual memory. If other memory works fine in it, it's probably bad though. Did you test it with the +.02 volts? yep, I had 3 sets of 1 gig RAM (all 2 x 512's), 1 generic, 1 Kingston, 1 Corsair, tested all in 2 PC's using the Windows version & the only one to fail at all & in both machines was the Corsair, I feel confident the RAM is faulty...the test was set to test all unused RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted March 29, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted March 29, 2005 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...
mickd Posted April 7, 2005 Author Share Posted April 7, 2005 Well....got my replacement RAM (thanks), tested them first up and these are the results,tested both sticks alone in DDR1 & no problems, single stick in DDR2...long beep/no boot, DDR1 & 2 , dual channel.....too many errors to count, DDR1 & 3 (mem not optimised) no errors, DDR3 , single stick long beep/no boot, DDR 3 & 4 (dual Channel)....to many errors to count. settings are...2.5-3-3-6, +.2, 2T disabled, has anyone got this MB running in dual channel ???????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted April 7, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted April 7, 2005 Please make sure that you have the latest bios and if so, I would try and RMA the CPU and see if that will solve the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickd Posted April 24, 2005 Author Share Posted April 24, 2005 using +0.2 in BIOS takes the memory to 2.7volts but using gigabytes' Easytune4 I can take it to 2.8volts, will this damage the memory? I seem to have this system stable when memory is clocked back to 333 but am just not sure how much the RAM can handle.....any advice would be appreciated. Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 It is warrantied up to, but not over, 2.9 volts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickd Posted April 26, 2005 Author Share Posted April 26, 2005 It seems my system is only stable when running the RAM at 333, 2.5-3-3-6, Bios F9(beta), latest chipset driver fom Nvidia (WQHL)..........is anybody doing better, I am wondering if I made an error in my RAM selection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted April 26, 2005 Share Posted April 26, 2005 Have you RMA'd the motherboard or CPU? Have you tried other memory in this board, or this memory in another board? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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