madtkboy Posted November 12, 2007 Share Posted November 12, 2007 I recently picked up some pc3200 sticks of Corsair XMS. After installing the computer has become quite weird, rebooting on it's own, making strange clicky noises and basically not being able to run any games without rebooting on load. I think I received two bad sticks perhaps? My computer is: ASUS P4PE motherboard bios 1.07 2 1gb sticks of XMS pc3200 (upgraded from 2 sticks of 512 kingston pc2700) ATI X1600PRO 512mb P4 2.4ghz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madtkboy Posted November 12, 2007 Author Share Posted November 12, 2007 I just tested them seperately on memtest and it appears only one is faulty so far. The other stick is currently on test #4 at 19% and so far no errors. The first stick on the same settings did not offer any passed tests and had a million errors by the time I just stopped the test in disgust. What to do what to do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerekT Posted November 12, 2007 Share Posted November 12, 2007 Where was this DRAM obtained from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madtkboy Posted November 12, 2007 Author Share Posted November 12, 2007 Not sure, got it from a friend who just had it sitting in the original packaging and everything. I dont think even he recalls. Definitely beyond return policies I'd assume. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerekT Posted November 12, 2007 Share Posted November 12, 2007 Not sure, got it from a friend who just had it sitting in the original packaging and everything. I dont think even he recalls. Definitely beyond return policies I'd assume. This memory is warranted for life so your return will be with Corsair. Corsair staff work on business days and hours so you can look to them responding to this thread on Monday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madtkboy Posted November 12, 2007 Author Share Posted November 12, 2007 Nice, I'll wait around then. Thanks for the info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerekT Posted November 12, 2007 Share Posted November 12, 2007 You're very welcome. :D: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted November 12, 2007 Corsair Employees Share Posted November 12, 2007 Let's get it or them replaced, please follow the link in my signature “I think I have a bad part!” and we will be happy to replace them or it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madtkboy Posted November 12, 2007 Author Share Posted November 12, 2007 Thanks, I think I'm going to recheck both sticks tonight to confirm if the good stick is actually good, then follow that link. I stopped the good stick at one pass, and it ran last night by itself and in conjunction with my old 512 stick fine. By the way, will the sticks run in dual channel on my ASUS P4PE mobo? Just something I was wondering about while searching for how to resolve my problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted November 12, 2007 Corsair Employees Share Posted November 12, 2007 With a P4PE MB they would have to run the memory at DDR333 with one module and DDR266 with 2 installed and you will have to set the timings and Voltage manually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madtkboy Posted November 12, 2007 Author Share Posted November 12, 2007 Not really catching on. So Dimm 1 runs at 333mhz and Dimm 2 runs at 266mhz? How do you go about setting that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted November 13, 2007 Corsair Employees Share Posted November 13, 2007 Should be in the BIOS setup where you set the CPU frequency, usually called Jumper Free I think with most ASUS MB's. Please check in section 4 of the manual. And I would use these as reference. Dim Voltage to 2.7 Volts Memory Frequency: 166MHz Memory Timings: Manual/User Define SDRAM CAS Latency: 2.5T SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay (tRCD): 3T SDRAM Row Precharge (tRP): 3T SDRAM Active to Precharge Delay (tRAS): 7T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madtkboy Posted November 13, 2007 Author Share Posted November 13, 2007 I'm most likely going to RMA, after testing the modules tonight. Should I send both or the one bad stick? I'd assume both since it's a TwinX schedule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted November 14, 2007 Corsair Employees Share Posted November 14, 2007 I would suggest testing them in another system as that MB will not officially support these modules and RMA'ing them may not solve the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madtkboy Posted November 14, 2007 Author Share Posted November 14, 2007 Dont have a system that's DDR compatible that can run them. The only one is this and it supporta natively up to pc2700. Since pc3200 is backwards compatible with pc2700 boards, and one of the sticks ran fine (I'm testing them one at a time in slot one), I'm assuming the other one is dead? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerekT Posted November 14, 2007 Share Posted November 14, 2007 What RAM GUY is saying that you can run at 333 with a single stick and if you use two sticks you need to drop the throughput to 266 on that motherboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madtkboy Posted November 15, 2007 Author Share Posted November 15, 2007 Yeah I realized after. Thanks for the info. But I'm conducting the tests using one stick at a time, with all other slots empty, to determine if each stick, individually, are okay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted November 15, 2007 Corsair Employees Share Posted November 15, 2007 Please let us know how you make out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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