Mystery Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 My friend's computer recently started hanging after an x amount of usage and sometimes freezes before windows loads. If a stick of ram was placed in the first ram slot the system may potentially not boot at all but half the time it will. There are 2 ram slots filled with Value Select ram as far as I know. When it is placed in the second ram slot only, the computer boots up fine but days later he calls saying he's experiancing hangs again. This motherboard has been running smooth for about 3 years or so with all the parts the same. Memtest ran at just under 8 minutes before freezing. Is this an issue with motherboard and how it deals with the ram and is there a way to fix it? My friend has the following build: Asus P4P800 2x Corsair VS 512MB Creative Audigy 2 GeForce FX 6600 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMC_SAVAGE Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 He needs to test one stick at a time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted October 24, 2006 Corsair Employees Share Posted October 24, 2006 Please set the Dim Voltage to 2.7X volts (+.2 Volts W/Giga-Byte) and then set the timings manually to the tested settings for the specific module you have, XMS2700C2 Cass 2-3-3-6 for example or if you have Value Select "BY SPD" and then test the module/'s one at a time with http://www.memtest.org! If you still get errors, please follow the link in my signature “I think I have a bad part!” and we will be happy to replace them or it! However, if you get errors with both modules that would suggest some other problem and I would test them in another system or MB to be sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mystery Posted October 27, 2006 Author Share Posted October 27, 2006 I think it is a MB issue. I did run the tests individually. They will not boot up when run together at all. I appologize for not being clear. The tests are run from DIMM slot 2. DIMM slot 1 seems to be messed up since with any kind of ram the computer hangs a few seconds into boot up. The ram was purchased a couple years ago as well so I am unsure that that is the case. That is why I left this in the motherboard section. I don't have another motherboard to check it with and local shops like Fry's don't carry socket 478 motherboards anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted October 27, 2006 Corsair Employees Share Posted October 27, 2006 I am not clear on what you have posted. But if the modules will run and pass http://www.memtest.org one up but the system will not post or run properly when installed in D/C that would suggest a problem with the MB or chipset! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mystery Posted October 28, 2006 Author Share Posted October 28, 2006 I mean to say that I did test the ram indivually which lead me to believe that it was probably not the ram. That is why I put this in another subforum before it was moved. Here was the process I tried: Ram #1 in DIMM1 and Ram #2 in DIMM2. System hang upon boot up. Memtest does not start. Ram #1 in DIMM1 only. System hang upon boot up. Memtest does not start. Ram #2 in DIMM1 only. System hang upon boot up. Memtest does not start. Ram #1 in DIMM2 only. Memtest does start but does not finish. Stop time is 7:45 Exactly. Ram #2 in DIMM2 only. Memtest does start but does not finish. Stop time is 7:45 Exactly. It is weird that it is at exactly the same times. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted October 28, 2006 Corsair Employees Share Posted October 28, 2006 Can you test the modules in another system as it would be close to impossible to get two bad modules from us? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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