ramsay Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 Hello i was having problems gaming and sometimes just browsing.The error messages ive been getting are "memory cannot be read" and BSOD! at first i thought it was my graphics card, but i read a few support forums and used Memtest to test my ram(2 x 512 corsair).I aslo read it could be just the bios settings, so after one test i set them to default and it made no diffrence. Memtest is now running and has got to 75% coverage and there are already 33 errors.From reading the Memtest manual i reckon this is quite bad. What do i do now. Cheers Ramsay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted December 7, 2005 Corsair Employee Share Posted December 7, 2005 What is the exact part# of your modules? (How To Read the Memory Label) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramsay Posted December 7, 2005 Author Share Posted December 7, 2005 the part number of the modules is VS512MB400c3. same on both modules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted December 7, 2005 Corsair Employee Share Posted December 7, 2005 Please try these settings: With the A7N8X-E please set the FSB jumper to pins 2-3 with the modules in slots 2-3 and then reset or clear the bios and load setup defaults and set the Dim Voltage to 2.7 Volts and set the timings manually. Then please test the system with http://www.memtest.org. CPU Freq: 200 MHz System Performance: User Define Memory Frequency: 100% Dim Voltage to 2.7 Volts Resulting Frequency: 200 MHz SDRAM CAS Latency: 3T SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay (tRCD): 3T SDRAM Row Precharge (tRP): 3T SDRAM Active to Precharge Delay (tRAS): 8T Some have reported success disabling Spread Spectrum in the bios as well. I would take a look at http://www.asusforums.org as well in the AMD section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramsay Posted December 8, 2005 Author Share Posted December 8, 2005 hi i tried all the setting that you suggested, and did Memtest with the same results! i went on the asus site and was advised not to set the fsb jumper pins to 2-3 as this was to support 200MHz FSB only. What now? ramsay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted December 8, 2005 Corsair Employee Share Posted December 8, 2005 LOL! Please try the settings I have suggested and test the modules one at a time, if you still have problems we will be happy to replace the modules or if you can test them in another MB not an A7N8X-E that would work as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramsay Posted December 9, 2005 Author Share Posted December 9, 2005 hi i tsested the Ram modules in an old mobo n it came back with no errors, which is nice. so as the Rams not faultly ive been bummin about the asus forums and it seams have almost got the problem fixed.Disableing the spread spectrum made a huge difference but im still getting a coulple of errors(but at least its not 50 still) any other tips Cheers Ramsay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted December 9, 2005 Corsair Employee Share Posted December 9, 2005 Did you try and set the FSB Jumper? This will set the chipset voltage up .5 Volts and will often times solve this issue. I had four of these MB's and this was what I had to do with all four. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramsay Posted December 12, 2005 Author Share Posted December 12, 2005 i changed the jumpers and ran memtest. i recieved no errors with around 800% coverage, however when when i started running other programs i recieved a couple of errors. Is this normal? ramsay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted December 12, 2005 Corsair Employee Share Posted December 12, 2005 That could have been anything, what was the error and with what program? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramsay Posted December 13, 2005 Author Share Posted December 13, 2005 one time i had no errors and when i opened up windows media player i recieved an error, and another time i recieved one error when opening firefox. The errors were something like "pairs do not match" but i didn't write the numbers down at the time. if it does it again il write them down and post them. cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted December 14, 2005 Corsair Employee Share Posted December 14, 2005 Let's get 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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