tabaxter Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Hi there, I'm in it again. My son reports for a while his computer has occasionally stated "system failed memory test" on the way in (Asus A7N8X-Deluxe). Today it started doing this all the Time! Once I had removed one stick of Ram it booted quite happily. I tried it in a number of different positions and in another computer but could not get it to boot to run MemTest or anything so I think its bust. Any suggestions? Trevor 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 Can you tell me our modules part# (How To Read the Memory Label) and 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...
tabaxter Posted January 19, 2006 Author Share Posted January 19, 2006 The memory label has the following on it CMX256-3200C2PT xms3202v1.2 0302065 - 3 platinum series MB is an Asus A7N8X-Deluxe it has a 166 FSB and the settings for the RAM chips are as detected 7-3-3-3T by the board. I've never overclocked either the processor or the memory as I was looking for reliability (didn't want kids bothering me all the time and they'll not see the difference....). When I took out the stick the motherboard had down shifted to 100mhz and it had to be set back up to the processors rating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted January 20, 2006 Corsair Employees Share Posted January 20, 2006 Can you 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...
tabaxter Posted January 20, 2006 Author Share Posted January 20, 2006 I'm now more mystified than ever. I decided that there might be a problem with the motherboard so I swapped the motherboard. Now I have a more weird problem. I can put either stick of RAM in but the system will only see one of them! Either seems to run the system, but I cannot use the two together! Can you recommend a memory testing / probing program to use to see if I can get to the bottom of it..? p.s. This does not happen with two sticks of value memory they both work together fine. 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 That would suggest a problem with the chipset or memory controller thats in the chipset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabaxter Posted January 21, 2006 Author Share Posted January 21, 2006 Yep I think I got it last night both sticks now working and memtest okay so I will leave you be. I think the first motherboard was failing thus why I got the funny readings. The second has an SIS chipset that won't allow certain values of ram at certain speeds! I juggled this until they worked!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted January 23, 2006 Corsair Employees Share Posted January 23, 2006 Good deal, please let us know how you make out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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