eddah1 Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 When I put all 4 modules in the mb I loose my cursor, it becomes a square box of flashing color dots. I the bcakground go to black, the log on icon has no picture in it only black. If I go to 3gb no problem. I tried moving the modules around, I changed the fsb & memory clock from auto to manual so the mem clock speed is 667Mhz ir a 1:1.25 ratio changed the mem voltage to 1.9 I tried various DRAM timing with no success. I am using a MSI 975X Platium Mb, Intel 6400 processor, wd raptor 150 gb drive, MSI Nvidia 7900gt video card, Creative SB X-fi Platium and Corsair memory CMSx1024-6400 3gb sucessfully with 4gb problems develop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted February 16, 2007 Corsair Employee Share Posted February 16, 2007 Please test the modules one at a time at their tested settings and if they all pass you will need to run the memory at 667 MHz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddah1 Posted February 22, 2007 Author Share Posted February 22, 2007 Each module passed fine, with no errors. MSI suggested a reload of windows, so I did. Now I am seeing the gui interface correctly however I still get failures running memtest. The only mem adjustment I did was to push the voltage to 2.1 as suggested in a previous post. The other strange thing is when I run memtest the chip set is not displayed, the the FSB or ram settings. All that is displayed is Chipset: MSI is suggesting that I have an Old version of Memtest but I just downloaded it. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted February 23, 2007 Corsair Employee Share Posted February 23, 2007 Are you using version 1.70 from http://www.memtest.org? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddah1 Posted February 26, 2007 Author Share Posted February 26, 2007 Yes I am using the latest version now. I was using an older version and it did not recognize the chipset. so I am not sure of the test results. I made a discovery, If I remove the Soundblaster card. I can load 4 gb and do not lose my cursor but I still can not get the memory to run at 800mhz when I fail memtest it is usually test #6. failing address 00071b20cc4 - 1819.0mb good:ffbfffff bad: ffbbfff err-bits: 00040000 -- failing address 00051be6cc4 1307.0mb good:bfffffff bad: fffbfffd err-bits: 00040000 to name a few.. Still trying to get a better handle on what causes the problem. So far: - I disabled the on board sound, - Loaded windows XP pro with SP2 with and without the sound card installed, no other programs loaded except the motherboard drivers - tried various memory speed and voltage settings - relocated the card to both pci slots - Uploaded the latest bios - used the latest downloads from Creative site. - moved memory modules around. In the 3 gb configuration I left bank 3 empty and loaded bank 4, thinking I had a bank 4 issue. I am going to start at square one testing each module separately without the sound card installed, move to 2 gb retest, 3 gb and then 4 gb and see what how the truth table develops. then do the same thing with the sound card installed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddah1 Posted February 27, 2007 Author Share Posted February 27, 2007 Looks like I have 2 bad modules. They previously tested fine using an old version of memtest. So I need an RMA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted February 27, 2007 Corsair Employee Share Posted February 27, 2007 That would suggest some other problem, and are you having a problem in Windows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddah1 Posted February 27, 2007 Author Share Posted February 27, 2007 I put the 2 modules that tested good ram memtest no problems, when I put in the the modules that tested bad with the good modules memtest fails. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted February 27, 2007 Corsair Employee Share Posted February 27, 2007 With 4 modules on this MB you will have to set the memory frequency at DDR667 or DDR533 and all of the modules will need to be the same part# and revision. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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