nofx Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 Hey guys, I got a serious problem with getting my system running. while installing windows im receiving strange fatal errors (only in the gui menu). after trying a bunch of different windows cds and swapping cd drives i decided to check the ohter components. Mainboard: MSI K9N-Platinum CPU: Amd Athlon x2 5000+ RAM: 2*Corsair CM2X1024-6400 (dual channel kit) Graphics: Leadtek Winfast Px 7950 GT HDD: 2*250gb samsung sp2504c I checked the harddiks with the samsung "hutil" they turned out to work just fine. I went on with the ram. I tried Memtest86 and Memtest86+ both came up with loads of errors right after about 20 seconds.... after running them for like 3 hours i got about 117000 errors+ I'm in no rush since i got a lot of other pcs to do my work. so i tried to run the system with one dimm only which didnt work either. I never experienced any problems with corsair ram so far, thats why i'm a little stunned now. anyone got any suggestions? i'd appreciate if someone could help me out! thanks a lot and keep up the good work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted July 24, 2007 Corsair Employees Share Posted July 24, 2007 With a odd multiplier CPU you mighht be running the RAM off-spec. It is possible the system is trying to run the RAM at 860MHZ with the 13x multiplier. See if the system is stable after adjusting the memory voltage: 2.0v and CPU multiplier: 12x. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nofx Posted July 24, 2007 Author Share Posted July 24, 2007 thanks ram-guy! but there are still 45 errors/minute so far... is there anything else i could try? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted July 24, 2007 Corsair Employees Share Posted July 24, 2007 Test the modules one at a time in the slot closest to the cpu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nofx Posted July 24, 2007 Author Share Posted July 24, 2007 hey there, i get less errors when i try the modules alone in the slot closest to the cpu. i checked the msi manual again, they recommend slot 1+3 or slot 2+4 for dual channel kits. i managed to install windows when using slot 2+4 instead of 1+3. but there are still the memtest errors. windows works fine so far. what would you recommend to do? keep on trying to get memtest working without any errors or use the "now working" windows install. thanks for your help so far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted July 24, 2007 Corsair Employees Share Posted July 24, 2007 Use the same exact 1 stick of RAM to test each slot one at a time. The errors in which the address occurs in should be exactly the same if the RAM is defective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nofx Posted July 25, 2007 Author Share Posted July 25, 2007 good morning! i tried each stick, in each slot as you told me. i kept on getting errors. now i turned the cpu multiplier down to 10x and the ram works just fine even in dual channel mode. no errors at all. i guess that'll do for me! thanks a lot for you help so far I was wondering if you could explain the problem with the multiplier to me or send me some link where I can read it myself, I really want to learn something out of this.. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted July 25, 2007 Corsair Employees Share Posted July 25, 2007 Here is a link to an article which talks about your CPU and has some information regarding the multiplier for AMD CPU's. http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/328/1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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