washed Posted April 1, 2005 Share Posted April 1, 2005 Under stress (i.e. gaming for 15minutes ca) my computer crashes. I've performed several Memtest runs and thousands of errors where detected. Currently i'm running on slower timings (3-3-4) in order to improve stability in normal "office-use". I'm sure the parts are defect; i've never overclocked them or exposed them to high physical stress. Do i really have to send them to the USA? I live in germany and it's not that cheap to send them over there; isn't there a distribution center of some kind in europe? thanks for any held, washed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted April 1, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted April 1, 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...
washed Posted May 16, 2005 Author Share Posted May 16, 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? sry for the incredibly long delay. The specs you requested: ASUS P4C800 Deluxe Pentium 4 3,0GHz Northwood (1MB L2 Cache) 800MHz FSB BIOS Version: 1019 Settings: Memory on SPD-Settings PAT activated Performance mode: turbo (it fails in normal mode, too) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted May 16, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted May 16, 2005 Please try these settings after you load setup defaults. AI Over Clock Tuner: Manual CPU Freq: 200 MHz Memory Frequency: 100%/DDR400 System Performance: Auto Dim Voltage to 2.75 Volts (but if you over clock 2.85 Volts) Resulting Frequency: 200MHz/400DDR Legacy USB: Disabled PAM/PAT/MAM: Auto SDRAM CAS Latency: 2T SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay (tRCD): 2T SDRAM Row Precharge (tRP): 2T SDRAM Active to Precharge Delay (tRAS): 5T Then test the modules one at a time with http://www.memtest.org. And if you over clock the CPU it would be best to relax the timings to like Cass 2.5-3-3-7 and set the Voltage to 2.85 Volts and then increase the CPU Freq a few MHz at a time and see where it tops out then tweak the settings to enhance the performance. But using http://www.memtest.org to verify your settings are not causing errors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
washed Posted May 16, 2005 Author Share Posted May 16, 2005 Thanks for the fast response. I'm just curious, but does the Legacy-USB have something to do with the memory? Is there some kind of compatiblity issue? -washed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted May 16, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted May 16, 2005 You only need to disable legacy USB when running a memory test, as it shadows some of the bootable information to active ram and a memory test may interpret it as an error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
washed Posted July 19, 2005 Author Share Posted July 19, 2005 Ok, I performed the test exactly the way you told me, here are the results: Pentium 4 (0.13) 2999MHz L1 Cache: 8K 20969MB/s L2 Cache: 512K 20969MB/s Memory: 255M 1697MB/s Chipset: Intel i875P (ECC: Disabled) FSB: 199MHz PAT: Disabled Settings: RAM: 199MHz (DDR398) / CAS: 2-2-2-5 / Single Channel (64 Bits) Ram-Module #1 Error Summary: Test Errors 0 0 1 0 2 0 3 empty 4 28225 5 empty 6 21479 7 3190 8 0 9 0 10 0 Ram-Module #2 Error Summary: Test Errors 0 0 1 0 2 0 3 1021 4 4981 5 19429 6 1187 7 3663 8 0 9 0 10 0 I hope this helps you in some way. -washed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted July 19, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted July 19, 2005 Getting errors with both modules would suggest some other problem, can you tell me the bios settings you had set? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
washed Posted July 19, 2005 Author Share Posted July 19, 2005 I set exactly the settings you told me: AI Over Clock Tuner: Manual CPU Freq: 200 MHz Memory Frequency: 100%/DDR400 System Performance: Auto Dim Voltage to 2.75 Volts (but if you over clock 2.85 Volts) Resulting Frequency: 200MHz/400DDR Legacy USB: Disabled PAM/PAT/MAM: Auto SDRAM CAS Latency: 2T SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay (tRCD): 2T SDRAM Row Precharge (tRP): 2T SDRAM Active to Precharge Delay (tRAS): 5T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted July 20, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted July 20, 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...
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