kg333 Posted April 14, 2005 Share Posted April 14, 2005 I've been scanning through the forums today regarding issues people have had using this board and the Value Select Corsair PC3200 DDR. I discovered and DL'd the memtest.org program (thank you) and after running it found I am getting the same errors that many others have reported. In order to save myself a bit of time, could you guys advise me the surest course of action to resolve my error problems? I believe I saw a recommendation to to have the mem sticks on slot 1 & 3-contrary to what the MB manual describes?? I did reset the timings to 2.5-3-3-8 @ 2.7V as described in the forums I read. Memtest.org found errors on PASS 1 for Test#5 (3 of them) and one error on Test#6. On the next pass, same errors for Test#5 and none anywhere else. I went back in and reset to auto the timings (still comes out the same) and restarted the test. RAM is @200 MHZ, as the AMD 64 processor is evidently incapable of runing the RAM @ 400 MHZ as it should. Running the test again now..so far on Test#8 with no errors??? BTW-there is a configuration setting in Memtest for AMD 64>should I mess around with this? Specs below. Advice is appreciated cuz I'm ready to play with my new toy-I've been T/S it for a week and a half! (new rig)-update:1st pass all tests pass!?! what is the deaL? :bigeyes: AMD Athlon 64 3400+ X2 CORSAIR VS PC3200 400MHZ DDR-OEM (VS512MB400) MSI Neo Platinum2 FSR WD 80GB HDD X2 ATI Radeon 9550 256MB AGP Sony 52X32X52X CD-Burner 16X DVD Windows XP Pro w/ service pack2 HP f1903 "19 LCD monitor Artronix Guardian ATX case w/ 4 case fans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted April 14, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted April 14, 2005 Do you have the socket 939 or socket 754 version of this MB? And have you tried testing the modules one at a time with http://www.memtest.org? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kg333 Posted April 15, 2005 Author Share Posted April 15, 2005 Sorry! 754 ver Strange, after I reset everything to auto and reran the tests, made 3 passes with no errors! Even weirder is the fact that the RAM is still running @ 2.5-3-3-8 timings. 200MHZ. I guess I'll leave it be and concentrate on tweaking the CPU. Dynamic Overclocking function caused a black screen which I had to reset the CMOS by jumper but that was because it set the RAM timings too low. Well, based on all the problems I see others having with VS Corsair I think I'll just leave it as is-functional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted April 18, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted April 18, 2005 I would install the modules in slots 1-3 or 2-3 and set the Dim Voltage to 2.7 Volts and see if that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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