thom3321 Posted April 20, 2005 Share Posted April 20, 2005 I bought TwinX1024-3200PT 1GB DDR400 XMS3200 Dual Channel Memory from Zipzoomfly. The order is dated Feb. 7, 2005. The mem was installed on an Asus A7N8XE-Delux mother board replacing 512MB of existing memory. The crashes started a few days after and occurred every day of two. I tried a number of things with the help of a local computer tech. After removing the memory and reinstalling the original dimms everything returned to normal and there have been no crashes in 7-8 days. All settings in the bios are set to default. Bios ver is 1011. Is there anything else I need to do or can an RMA be issued for the return of this matched kit? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted April 20, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted April 20, 2005 What CPU speed do you have installed? Please try these settings: With the A7N8X-E please set the FSB jumper to pins 2-3 with the modules in slots 2-3 and then reset or clear the bios and load setup defaults and set the Dim Voltage to 2.7 Volts and set the timings manually. Then please test the system with http://www.memtest.org. CPU Freq: 200 MHz Memory Frequency: 100% Dim Voltage to 2.7 Volts Resulting Frequency: 200 MHz SDRAM CAS Latency: 3T SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay (tRCD): 3T SDRAM Row Precharge (tRP): 3T SDRAM Active to Precharge Delay (tRAS): 8T I have 4 of these exact MB's and this is what had to be done to solve problems with aggressive memory, no matters who's I tested. In addition, a few other's had some success disabling Spread Spectrum in the bios as well. I would take a look at http://www.asusforums.org as well in the AMD section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thom3321 Posted April 20, 2005 Author Share Posted April 20, 2005 These are the default settings that are being used now. I am not sure about the 2.7 volt setting -- it may be 2.65, but everything else I am sure about. I'll change the pins if I have to, but I don't understand what that will do. What CPU speed do you have installed? Please try these settings: With the A7N8X-E please set the FSB jumper to pins 2-3 with the modules in slots 2-3 and then reset or clear the bios and load setup defaults and set the Dim Voltage to 2.7 Volts and set the timings manually. Then please test the system with http://www.memtest.org. CPU Freq: 200 MHz Memory Frequency: 100% Dim Voltage to 2.7 Volts Resulting Frequency: 200 MHz SDRAM CAS Latency: 3T SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay (tRCD): 3T SDRAM Row Precharge (tRP): 3T SDRAM Active to Precharge Delay (tRAS): 8T I have 4 of these exact MB's and this is what had to be done to solve problems with aggressive memory, no matters who's I tested. In addition, a few other's had some success disabling Spread Spectrum in the bios as well. I would take a look at http://www.asusforums.org as well in the AMD section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted April 20, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted April 20, 2005 As long as you have a 200 FSB CPU please try these settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thom3321 Posted April 22, 2005 Author Share Posted April 22, 2005 The cpu is an AMD XP3200 and I don't know what you mean by a 200 front side bus cpu? I am doing no over clocking at this point. I won't be able to deal with the jumpers until Saturday. I'll download and run memtest and let you know mid-week if this looks like it will solve the problem. Thanks for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted April 22, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted April 22, 2005 Please let me know, and 200 FSB would be the CPU Freq of a 3200+ XP CPU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thom3321 Posted April 25, 2005 Author Share Posted April 25, 2005 2 errors found a 370% -- both word pair errors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted April 25, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted April 25, 2005 As long as you set the CPU_FSB jumper and reset the bios and then set the settings as listed with the modules in slots 2-3 then 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...
thom3321 Posted April 25, 2005 Author Share Posted April 25, 2005 @ 285% this morning -- memtest has found 16 errors. I will rma them asap. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thom3321 Posted April 25, 2005 Author Share Posted April 25, 2005 The settings are as you requested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted April 25, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted April 25, 2005 Lets get your modules replaced. 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...
thom3321 Posted May 14, 2005 Author Share Posted May 14, 2005 Replaced the old memory with the newly rma'd xms and the computer crashed within 2 minutes. Now what? 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 call our Tech support at 888-222-4346 Option "2" and we will try and help you sort this out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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