Forrest1980 Posted December 14, 2005 Share Posted December 14, 2005 Hi, my name is Vincent. First of all, thanks a lot for the time you're taken to help me out. My english is so-so, but I'll try my best to be understandable. Also, I'm not a computer wiz, but I still know a bit more than average. I've purchased my corsair memory about 1 1/2 - 2 years ago. I've been having a lot of crashes since that time but always thought it was video card related because of the reliability of all corsair products. Sadly, I tried to test it and one stick failed. I've got a dual set of Corsair platinum series (there's a twinx tm sticker also on it). Here's all the information on the stick that appears to be defective. CMx512-2700LLPT XMS2705v1.2 0322088 and on the last line: XMS2700 512MB 333MHz 2225-T1 My system is an AMD athlon XP 3000+. The motherboard is an ASUS A7N8X deluxe. The video card is an ATI Radeon 9800 pro 128. I've got 3 slots for the memory stick that look something like this: ¦¦ ¦ I've decided to run Memtest to see if everything was fine. I've run it with both sticks and I got in about an hour well over 200 errors. I tried running it only with stick A (broken one) in slot 1 (the one on the left). Got 150 errors in about an hour. Stick B (other one) in slot 1, no errors. Stick A in slot 3 (the one on the right) 200 errors in about 1 1/2 hour. Stick B in slot, no errors. This is why I concluded that one of my sticks is defective. Is there anything more you would want me to do or should I fill out a form to return the broken stick??? Thanks again, Vincent. 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 go ahead and replace those for you. Please see the link in my signature, "I think I have a bad part what do I do?". Please let me know if you have any further questions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forrest1980 Posted December 14, 2005 Author Share Posted December 14, 2005 Before I send it back to you, I'd like to ask you one more question because by tweeking some settings in the bios and running memtest overnight, I managed to reduce almost to none the errors. I saw in a post to another user that you recommanded 200 mhz for the CPU frequency. When I put this setting, my computer just wont reboot, I have to put a lower value. Could you please give me all optimal values for my computer so I can make a final test to make sure I have a defective part. Thanks, Vincent. 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 Please try these settings assuming you have a 333 FSB CPU then test them one at a time with http://www.memtest.org. CPU Freq: 166 MHz System Performance: User Define Memory Frequency: 100% Dim Voltage to 2.7 Volts Resulting Frequency: 166MHz Memory Timings: Manual/User Define SDRAM CAS Latency: 2T SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay (tRCD): 3T SDRAM Row Precharge (tRP): 2T SDRAM Active to Precharge Delay (tRAS): 5T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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