admz24 Posted April 27, 2005 Share Posted April 27, 2005 RamGuy, I purchased a value select 2X512mb PC3200 kit and it is bad. Both sticks fail the memtest at their stock speed. I have tried different timings and voltages to no avail. I would like to RMA both sticks to Corsair. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted April 27, 2005 Corsair Employee Share Posted April 27, 2005 Getting failures with both modules would suggest some other problem. 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...
admz24 Posted April 27, 2005 Author Share Posted April 27, 2005 I have an epox 8RDA3+ paired with an AMD 2400XP. I have it at stock 133fsb right now, but was running it higher. I am away from my machine right now, but I know the precharge is disabled, it is at cas2.5, 6-3-3. The voltage is at 2.77, i think. I cant think of any "performance" settings I have set. Also, the one stick errors almost 100%. The other stick has a few errors, but more like about 20 or so during a run of memtest. It always fails at 218.0MB..... Let me know of anything else I can do. I can also get you more detail about my settings when I am back home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted April 27, 2005 Corsair Employee Share Posted April 27, 2005 Please try setting the memory Frequency manually to DDR333 and test the system. Please try these settings after you load setup defaults. CPU Freq: 133 MHz Memory Frequency: 12500%/DDR333 Dim Voltage to 2.75 Volts Resulting Frequency: 333DDR Legacy USB: Disabled SDRAM CAS Latency: 2.5T SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay (tRCD): 3T SDRAM Row Precharge (tRP): 3T SDRAM Active to Precharge Delay (tRAS): 6T Then test the modules one at a time with http://www.memtest.org. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admz24 Posted April 27, 2005 Author Share Posted April 27, 2005 I followed your advice. The first stick had 148 errors after one run through memtest. The second stick had 9396 errors after one run. What is the next step??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted April 27, 2005 Corsair Employee Share Posted April 27, 2005 Please try setting the memory frequency at 100 % and are you setting the Dim Voltage to 2.7 Volts? And do you have another system you can test the modules in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admz24 Posted April 28, 2005 Author Share Posted April 28, 2005 I set the speed to 100%. I changed the voltage and tested all three slots. Still received errors, just not as many. Unfortunately, I dont have another machine to test the memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted April 28, 2005 Corsair Employee Share Posted April 28, 2005 Let's try replacing your modules, but getting errors with both modules may suggest there is some other issue. 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...
admz24 Posted April 28, 2005 Author Share Posted April 28, 2005 I borrowed a set of memory from a friend. It runs perfectly without any errors at DDR400 speed in dual channel mode. That makes me believe it is the corsair that is faulty. I will be sending you my modules. Will let you know when they arrive. Thanks for you assistance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted April 28, 2005 Corsair Employee Share Posted April 28, 2005 You are quite welcome and please do let me know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admz24 Posted May 17, 2005 Author Share Posted May 17, 2005 RamGuy, I recieved my two replacement modules and they both tested with 0 errors. They are running fine in dual channel at their advertised speed and timings. Thanks again for your help and quick service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted May 17, 2005 Corsair Employee Share Posted May 17, 2005 No problem and thanks for letting me know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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