vinlnx Posted May 11, 2005 Share Posted May 11, 2005 My computer has been giving me BSODs complaining about Page faults in nonpaged areas for quite a while but today my computer finally died. I came home today to find my computer frozen and when I restarted, it froze on the bios ram check. After multiple restarts and ram check freezes, it got worse. Now whenever I turn on my computer the screen stays black and my motherboard plays an audio clip that says: "System failed memory test". I have tried placing the ram in different slots and nothing works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted May 11, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted May 11, 2005 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...
Wired Posted May 11, 2005 Share Posted May 11, 2005 What CPU / FSB / Motherboard do you have? What is the exact part # and revision # of each stick? Is it a TwinX pack? How To Read the Memory Label If you have more than one stick: Is it a TwinX pack? If not, what is the revision # of each stick? Did you test one stick at a time in each slot using Memtest86+? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinlnx Posted May 11, 2005 Author Share Posted May 11, 2005 It is a twinx pack part # is in title, version number is v1.1 My motherboard is an asus A7N8X deluxe my cpu is an athlon 3200+ 2.2GHz All the settings were pretty much stock- 2/3/3/6 memory timings and 11x, 400FSB (200MHz DDR) for the multiplier and frequency on the cpu. I fiddled with the multiplier a while back (think I set it around 12x) but changed it back a few months ago. Other than that everything is pretty standard - I'm not a big overclocker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted May 12, 2005 Share Posted May 12, 2005 Change the 2 to 2.5. Have you tried one stick at a time, or just both? It's rare that both sticks would die, may want to try them in another system, or other memory in your system to be safe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinlnx Posted May 12, 2005 Author Share Posted May 12, 2005 I thought that was odd as well. I have tried 1 stick at a time and it does not work. As for the changing from 2.5 to 2: The problem is so bad that I cant even access the bios to change that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted May 12, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted May 12, 2005 The suggested timings for these modules would be Cass 2.5-3-3-6 and I would set the Dim Voltage to 2.7 Volys as well and test the modules with http://www.memtest.org. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinlnx Posted May 12, 2005 Author Share Posted May 12, 2005 The suggested timings for these modules would be Cass 2.5-3-3-6 and I would set the Dim Voltage to 2.7 Volys as well and test the modules with http://www.memtest.org. I am unable to access the bios settings with either of these ram sticks and I dont currently have any extras lying around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted May 12, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted May 12, 2005 It would be verry unlikely you had 2 modules fail at the same time. I would see if a friend can help you test the modules in another system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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