robson.depaula Posted September 11, 2006 Posted September 11, 2006 Greatings, I was happily building my new system when out of sudden the windows instalation crashed miserably with a BSOD. I couldn´t believe it was a memory issue. And it wasn´t, well not exactly. The Intel D946GZIS board detected my pair of corsair vs sticks as DDR2 667 with timings 5-5-5-15. At this configuration nothing worked and memtest ended with red errors. I manualy set it to DDR2 533 with timings 5-5-5-15 and everything is working now. Is there anything i can do to possible get this combo running harmoniously @DDR667??? I atempted BIOS update with no avail to this issue. Timings suggestions? Any help? Thanx in advance.
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted September 14, 2006 Corsair Employee Posted September 14, 2006 Do you have a 533 FSB CPU or 800 FSB? And I would try and set the memory Voltage to 2.1 Volts and see if that helps.
robson.depaula Posted September 16, 2006 Author Posted September 16, 2006 Thanks for the reply. My cpu is a E6300 so its FSB runs at 1066 Mhz. Unfortunately the Intel BIOS doesn´t allow me to set the voltage. I also looked for jumpers and such to no avail. I believe that would solve the problem but intel doesn´t like the idea. I asked for a bios update at intel´s support site and everything that i got was an automatic reply. I guess what is left to me is advice everybody to stick away of intel motherboards, they don´t like our ram. Robson ps-> if anything can be done please let me know
robson.depaula Posted September 17, 2006 Author Posted September 17, 2006 Well while i have to retain the memo @ 533 MHz i tightened the latency to 3-3-3-9, the boards max. As we know the quality of corsair mem i had no problem and the system overall performance increased. Superpi 2M went from 1m15 to 1m12 and memory bandwidth increased from 2250 MB/s to 2913 MB/s.
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted September 18, 2006 Corsair Employee Posted September 18, 2006 OK Great and thanks for letting us know please let us know if you have any more questions!
robson.depaula Posted September 21, 2006 Author Posted September 21, 2006 STAY AWAY FROM THE BIOS "BIOS Update 0047 [TS94610J.86A]" for this Intel Board. It made the Corsair VS 667 not to run with ANY POSSIBLE settings!!!!!!!!:mad: I don´t know maybe Corsair could use the right channels to make intel fix these annoying problems. I´m trying to go back to "BIOS Update 0040 [TS94610J.86A]" which worcked with 533Mhz@3-3-3-9. I´ll keep you posted.
robson.depaula Posted September 22, 2006 Author Posted September 22, 2006 These are great news!!! The board died:mad: Intel contermeasures comprising BIOS protection against defective BIOS Flashes don´t work. RMA:mad:
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted September 22, 2006 Corsair Employee Posted September 22, 2006 I would suggest that you contact the MB maker ASAP if you have not done so!
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