franco244 Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 Ok during the summer of last year i bought a nice pair of TWINX1024-3200XL. I felt like a man with these. I put them in my computer. Everything seemed awesome and great, untill...it started rebooting on me for no reason. I thought it was my CPU so i made my fan always on Max. It still happened when i did that. I later gave up on it and it dodnt restart on me as much. Then i started getting errors in windows about ram problems. I still did't care. As time went on i got really angry and decided to do a memtest on it. I have about 4 or 5 errors that said in size was a gig of ram, so i thought that it meant that both ram moduals were bad in those areas. Now that my power supply decided to melt its plugs onto my motherboard im sending all the parts back etc. Also this is oppinionated but do you think that anything else could have been affected other than my motherboard and ram. I was thinking my video card and myabe my hard drives. System Specs: Athalon 64 3500+ MSI K8T Neo 2 Platinum 1gb of TWINX1024-3200XL Radeon Atlantis 9800 128MB On-board LAN On-board sound 2x Seagate Baracuda 120gb. 7200RPM Generic Speakers Logitech MX510 mouse Sony Keyboard. Windows XP Pro SP1 Everything had the latest BIOS or drivers that i knew of. Thanks a lot guys Cheers, Franco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted March 24, 2005 Corsair Employee Share Posted March 24, 2005 Can you 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...
franco244 Posted March 24, 2005 Author Share Posted March 24, 2005 I cant really tell you much but ill try to remember from memory. Everything was set up preaty much for factory settings. I just changed things like what booted up first. Nothing that should have affected the RAM. Also when i was getting errors i tried changing the latencys to the next highest number for each setting to see if it would do anything, but still didn't help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted March 24, 2005 Corsair Employee Share Posted March 24, 2005 Please tell me when you can look in the bios the exact settings you had set. Also the minimum suggest voltage for these modules would be 2.75 Volts, so I would make sure that you have the Dim Voltage set to 2.8 Volts with this MB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franco244 Posted March 25, 2005 Author Share Posted March 25, 2005 Well see there are a few slight problems. A. I don't have a power supply. B. My Motherboard is fried. C. My ram would always restart my computer, and also my neighbors computer. So i don't see why I can not get an RMA when i know for a fact my ram is defective from when i did a memtest on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 Memtest can give errors when the memory is NOT at fault, e.g. Legacy USB is enabled, bad memory controller, etc. What CPU / FSB / motherboard does your friend have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted March 25, 2005 Corsair Employee Share Posted March 25, 2005 And what did you set the dim voltage to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franco244 Posted March 25, 2005 Author Share Posted March 25, 2005 He has an Athalon 2600+ with 400FSB. I also have no clue what he set the dim voltage to, but i am almost 100% positive he didn't touch the voltage. Also my friend has an ASUS A7V600-X. So what voltage should i try for that motherboard? I will also try doing a memtest on that too and see if there are errors. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 Try 2.75 or 2.8 volts. 1 problem though: Athlon 2600+'s have an FSB of 333 Mhz, not 400 Mhz. Does he OC his CPU? If so, does it reliably stay @ 400 Mhz FSB? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franco244 Posted March 26, 2005 Author Share Posted March 26, 2005 woops, yeah you are right it does have a 333FSB. My friend is scared of overclocking hehe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted March 26, 2005 Share Posted March 26, 2005 Make sure when testing the memory on that system that the memory is set to 333 Mhz, as if it is set to 400 Mhz when the FSB is set to 333 Mhz, it WILL cause system instability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franco244 Posted March 28, 2005 Author Share Posted March 28, 2005 ok i will make sure of that its both 333. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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