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I just put together my computer about 2 weeks ago. I have been aquireing the parts for about 6 months. I bought some CMX512-3200xlpro Twin-x memory for my computer. Its a 1 gig set. Its running on a DFI Nforce4 SLI-dr. It has an FX-53 processor and dual BFG 6800gt's in SLI I have been getting random reboots and then serious error recoveries that i have been sending to microsoft. They said I had some bad RAM. I ran memtest86 v1.51 from my motherboard and it says I have some bad memory. Is there anything I can check to make sure this is the fact and what is the procedure for sending it back for a new set...

 

sincerely,

 

Jon Nelson

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How many errors and in which tests? Try setting your memory voltage to 2.7x or 2.8 volts. May want to try setting the RAS to CAS Delay (tRCD) to 3.

 

I set the memory to 333mhz and did not get any errors. I ran it all night long. Is there a problem with the voltages to the CPU......was reading another post on that. But he was running a Athlon64 3500+. Also where in Genie BIOS do you up the voltage to the cpu? :confused:

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Please put the memory modules on either slots 1&3 or 2&4; make sure that you have the latest BIOS installed for your MB; load optimized/set up default,

and set the following BIOS settings;

TwinX512 or TwinX1024-3200XL

Advanced CPU/Memory Configuration:

Memclock Mode: Limit

Memclock Value: 2:1 (DDR400)

Bank Interleaving: 4/Enabled

Burst Length: 8

SDRAM CAS Latency: 2T

SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay (tRCD): 2T

SDRAM Active to Precharge Delay (tRAS): 5T

SDRAM Row Precharge (tRP): 2T

2T Command Rate: Enabled

Advanced CPU/Hypertransport

Hypertransport: 5X

Jumper Free/Frequency Voltage Control:

AI Overclock Tuner: Manual

CPU FSB Clock: 200

DDR Voltage: 2.8 Volts

All other settings should be set to default settings!Then please test them

one at a time with http://www.memtest.org and let's make sure it's not some other

issue! I would run the test for at least 2-3 passes to be sure!

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Well thank you very much...I set the bios to the settings you suggested and all is well now. for some reason ........ the timing was coming in at 2-3-2-5 when everything was set to auto-config. but when you manually st everything the way you suggested it runs fine. I ran memtest for about 3 hours and I didn't get any errors... the only thing is after rebooting and playing a round of UT2k4 and then exiting it just rebooted.......but since then it has been real stable with many hours of play time...so thanks again :D:
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