tonyf Posted October 4, 2006 Posted October 4, 2006 Hello, I have been getting blue screens of death in WinXP Pro and whenever I play games like World of Warcraft they are constantly crashing. This has been happening for about 3 weeks. I downloaded Windows Memory Diagnostic and received the following error: Results: 1 Pass: 1 Test: ERAND Cache: On Address: 23187598 Expected: a1db8a33 Actual: a1db0a33 My mobo is an ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe and I have 2 sticks of TWINX1024 3200 512 MB.
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted October 5, 2006 Corsair Employee Posted October 5, 2006 Can you tell me 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?
tonyf Posted October 5, 2006 Author Posted October 5, 2006 Athlon XP 3200+ FSB 200Mhz CPU Freq 11x CPU 1.65V FSB Spread Spectrum .5% Mem Freq: Auto performance: user defined mem 2.7V 2.5-3-3-6
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted October 5, 2006 Corsair Employee Posted October 5, 2006 Please use the ASUS Bios 1.013 or newer and then, please try these settings: With the A7N8X-E please set the FSB jumper to pins 2-3 furthest away from the CPU 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 Memory timings: Manual Would results in these settings SDRAM CAS Latency: 2.5T SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay (tRCD): 3T SDRAM Row Precharge (tRP): 3T SDRAM Active to Precharge Delay (tRAS): 6T Graphics Aperture Size is 128 MB If you get errors please test the modules one at a time to make sure one is not failing, I have had 4 of these exact MB's and this is what had to be done to solve problems with aggressive memory, no matters who's I tested. In addition, a few others have had some success disabling Spread Spectrum in the bios as well.
tonyf Posted October 5, 2006 Author Posted October 5, 2006 Did exactly as you said and narrowed it down to 1 module. With the exception of memtest, because I do not have access to a cd burner right atm. The bad module created a ton of errors with the windows memory diagnostic. I am using the good stick and everything is fine. Able to install games and run games and no blue screens of death and no errors in windows memory diagnostic. continue with RMA for bad module?
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted October 5, 2006 Corsair Employee Posted October 5, 2006 Let's get them 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, please note that you are posting from the forum!
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