RMA info needed

[spaceman]

Let me first say that I've bought a ton of Corsair memory for my systems and systems I've built for others, and this is the first time I've ever had any fail on me. I guess the odds catch up after a while. Anyway, here's what I've done so far:

My wife's system was popping random program errors.

System:

Gigabyte GA-7N400S-L

AMD Sempron 2800+

VS1GBKIT400 PC3200, CAS 2.5

PNY GeForce 6200 256MB

 

BIOS set to all defaults – DDR at 200MHz, CPU at 166MHz

I ran memtest86+, which showed many (thousands) of errors.

I re-ran the test with each stick alone in each slot, same results.

I then pulled the 2 sticks out of my machine (it’s another of the same KIT) and got no errors.

My machine:

ECS N2U400-A

AMD Athlon XP 3200+

VS1GBKIT400 PC3200, CAS 2.5

Chaintech GeForce 6800GT 256MB

 

BIOS defaults, DDR and CPU at 200MHz

 

Just for kicks, retested her RAM in my machine, with same results.

I think it’s safe to say their dead.

What’s the next step?

[RAM GUY]

Please test the modules one at a time with http://www.memtest.org and I would set the Dim Voltage to 2.7 Volts, but with AMD XP CPU's if you run at 333FSB then you will need to run the memory at DDR333 as well. If you do find one failing then lets get it or them 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! And with Vlaue Select you would only need to send the failing module.

However; if you get errors with both modules, that would suggest some other problem. And I would try testing the memory in another system to be sure.

[spaceman]

Please test the modules one at a time with http://www.memtest.org and I would set the Dim Voltage to 2.7 Volts, but with AMD XP CPU's if you run at 333FSB then you will need to run the memory at DDR333 as well. If you do find one failing then lets get it or them 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! And with Vlaue Select you would only need to send the failing module.

However; if you get errors with both modules, that would suggest some other problem. And I would try testing the memory in another system to be sure.

 

Strangely, there is no utility to change RAM voltage on this board - I guess this is NOT an o/c's dream board :sigh!: . It shows 2.5v in the system monitor screen, but all shown voltages are grayed out.

I figured that I would have to set the DDR at 166, but when I put everything on "auto" it shows BYSPD and goes to 200. I reset it today and re-ran the tests, but I still got the same numbers of errors. As I stated in the original post, I've covered every combination of single DIMM, different slot in both my machines in a desperate attempt to prove at least one of these good. I even swapped out the SATA drives I had in the machine and put in an OS-only IDE drive, because I thought there was a problem with Windows and that the RAM must be good - it's less than 2 months old.