neuen Posted May 14, 2005 Share Posted May 14, 2005 Ive got a great computer but my Corsair ram just doesnt want to work right. While playing full screen games i get frequent crashes with and without the "memory could not be read" error. The ram is VS1GB400C3 and it is two sticks of 512 ram 2.5T and 200 fsb. When running at that speed i get crazy errors and it fails memtest while set to 8 3 3 2.5 200FSB, 11 3 3 2.5 200FSB, and at both those timings with 166 FSB. I dont know what to do. I lowered it down to 8 3 3 3T 166FSB and got no errors but i still crashed but i get a "cannot be 'written'" error. Any ideas would be great thx in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted May 15, 2005 Share Posted May 15, 2005 The timings are supposed to be 3-4-4-8. What CPU / FSB / motherboard do you have? 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 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...
neuen Posted May 29, 2005 Author Share Posted May 29, 2005 Ever since i have installed the VS1GB400 set my computer has been experiences memory crashes. I will be in the middle of a program when the program will crash giving me an error, "The memory could not be 'read'". I get these errors when set on the the default 200FSB 7 3 3 2.5. I don't know if u need any more information if so tell me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neuen Posted May 29, 2005 Author Share Posted May 29, 2005 ok lets see here Motherboard:Asus A78NX-Deluxe CPU: AMD XP 2400 RAM: VS1GB400 (I was mistaken when i said it was VS1GB400C3) FSB: 200Mhz Multiplier: 11x Memory Frequency: 100% Memory Timings: 8 3 3 2.5 FSB Spread Spectrum: Disabled AGP Spread Spectrum: Disabled Cpu Volt: 1.650V DDR Reference: 2.6V AGP VDDQ Voltage: 1.5V System Bios Cacheable: Disabled Video Ram Cacheable: Disabled tell me if there is anything else im basically looking for an RMA unless u can think of a way to make em work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neuen Posted May 30, 2005 Author Share Posted May 30, 2005 bump for Ram Guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted May 31, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted May 31, 2005 First thing, our hours are Monday Thru Friday Excluding Holidays 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM pacific time. That’s why your post has not been replied too. And that might be too much of an over clock for that CPU, please make sure that you have the latest bios and then load setup defaults and set these settings and test the modules one at a time with http://www.memtest.org. CPU Freq: 133 MHz Memory Frequency: 125% Dim Voltage to 2.7 Volts Resulting Frequency: 166MHz SDRAM CAS Latency: 2.5T SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay (tRCD): 3T SDRAM Row Precharge (tRP): 3T SDRAM Active to Precharge Delay (tRAS): 7T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neuen Posted June 1, 2005 Author Share Posted June 1, 2005 alright ill give that a try thx for responding and sry didnt realize u werent working :P edit: do you think that memtest would fail (because it did fail on the setting above very badly) if they cpu was too overclocked? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted June 1, 2005 Share Posted June 1, 2005 Yes, it could. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neuen Posted June 1, 2005 Author Share Posted June 1, 2005 when i set the FSB to 133 it doesnt seem to want to multiply by the 15 just the 7.5 giving me a nasty 900mhz rather than they descent 1950mhz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted June 1, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted June 1, 2005 I would try and reset the bios and then load setup defaults and see if it will let you set it properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neuen Posted June 1, 2005 Author Share Posted June 1, 2005 well it still doesnt seem to want to work at 133 FSB but i tried it at 166 with 12.5x and set memory to the settings u recomended and got no errors in memtest and no crashes so far. Although this ram is still suppost to run at 3200 not 2800 but i havnt tried it yet with the lower CPU FSB so maybe it will work now. :) I will let you know if it works. And if you have an idea how to get it back to the default 2400 settings that would be great but it doesnt register under auto as a 2400 but as like an 800Mhz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted June 1, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted June 1, 2005 You can RMA the CPU to AMD, but if you do I would suspect you would not get back one that is un-locked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neuen Posted June 19, 2005 Author Share Posted June 19, 2005 if i get the cpu running at default speed (which it doesnt want to run at atm) should the memory work at the standard 200FSB 2.5 Cas like it supposed to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted June 20, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted June 20, 2005 No, if you have a 133/166 FSB CPU the memory speed should be set to DDR333. If you run the memory out of sync with your CPU it will cause a bottelneck in the chipset and may generate errors that are not the fault of the memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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