Deece Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 I am currently building a few machines for our office (a development shop), based on the Asus A8N5X motherboard, Athlon 64 3500+, and an Antec SP350 power supply. Each machine is kitted out with 2GB (consisting of 2 sticks of VS1GB400C3), however, the majority of the systems are reporting memory errors in memtest86+, normally on test 5 (block move). Only one machine is stable. We are running them using the SPD settings, at the default voltage (though increasing it to 2.8V did not help). The memory tests fine on Pentium 4 boards at the same speed. Do you have any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted January 18, 2006 Corsair Employees Share Posted January 18, 2006 I would try and set the memory voltage to 2.7 Volts and see if that will solve the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deece Posted January 18, 2006 Author Share Posted January 18, 2006 I have tried setting the voltage manually to 2.7V and 2.8V, with no effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deece Posted January 18, 2006 Author Share Posted January 18, 2006 I am currently running these boards at DDR333, with no stability issues. I would like to have them running at 400MHz if possible though. Is it possible that these sticks are drawing too much current at DDR400 for this board? (we still get memory errors with 2 sticks in single channel at DDR400) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted January 19, 2006 Corsair Employees Share Posted January 19, 2006 Its possible, can you tell me the make and model of PSU and the complete system configuration? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deece Posted January 20, 2006 Author Share Posted January 20, 2006 The hardware consists (in a minimal configuration that can reproduce the problem): Antec SP350 power supply Xpertvision Geforce 6200 video Asus A8N5X motherboard Athlon 64 3500+ CPU 2 x Corsair VS1GB400C3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted January 21, 2006 Corsair Employees Share Posted January 21, 2006 You should be using a bigger PSU, but test the modules one at a time to be sure one is not failing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deece Posted January 21, 2006 Author Share Posted January 21, 2006 I'll test with an Antec 500W on Monday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted January 24, 2006 Corsair Employees Share Posted January 24, 2006 OK please let us know how you make out and remember to reset the bios when you chnage PSU's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deece Posted January 29, 2006 Author Share Posted January 29, 2006 We ended up buying a new 430W Antec PSU, as the 500W unit did not have a 24 pin connector, and we did not trust using an adapter to produce valid results. The memory still fails @400MHz with the new PSU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted January 31, 2006 Corsair Employees Share Posted January 31, 2006 Let's get them both replaced. Please follow the link in my signature “I think I have a bad part! Or *New* Tech Support Express” and we will be happy to replace them or it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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