rsinger Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 m/s windows xp pro throwing blue screens. all drivers & bios upgraded to current levels; problems continue. downloaded & executed m/s windows stand-alone memory diagnostic, which reports many errors. need rma to return for warranty replacement. thanks - bob singer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 What CPU / FSB / Motherboard do you have? Test with Memtest86+, as the MS one is Windows based, and as such is not reliable since it can be affected by Windows problems. Also, when Windows uses memory, the memory test program based within Windows cannot test that memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsinger Posted April 25, 2005 Author Share Posted April 25, 2005 the motherboard is a soyo dragon 2 black edition. the m/s program is a stand-alone diagnostic. it doesnt run under windows. you must create a special boot floppy, per m/s. im an o/s developer and understand that a program running in a virtual address space cant access real addresses and the diagnostics would be misleading. bob ------------ What CPU / FSB / Motherboard do you have? Test with Memtest86+, as the MS one is Windows based, and as such is not reliable since it can be affected by Windows problems. Also, when Windows uses memory, the memory test program based within Windows cannot test that memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted April 25, 2005 Share Posted April 25, 2005 My bad, only heard of MS having a Windows-based memory tester. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted April 25, 2005 Corsair Employee Share Posted April 25, 2005 Please try these settings after you load setup defaults. CPU Freq: 200 MHz Memory Frequency: 100%/DDR400 Dim Voltage to 2.75 Volts Resulting Frequency: 200MHz/400DDR Legacy USB: Disabled SDRAM CAS Latency: 2T SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay (tRCD): 3T SDRAM Row Precharge (tRP): 2T SDRAM Active to Precharge Delay (tRAS): 6T Then test the modules one at a time with http://www.memtest.org. If you do find one is failing please follow the link in my signature “I think I have a bad part!” and we will be happy to replace them or it! But if you get errors with both modules that might suggest some other problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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