mojorob Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 I've recently bought the above RAM (2x1Gb sticks), and am having problems using them on the above motherboard - freezing, rebooting, not booting up (pretty much in that order after about 10-20 minutes of things being ok). On BIOS I changed the settings to: 4-4-4-12 2.1V 800MHz I haven't yet done a test with memtest, but I have with Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool - using this, out of the 6 tests it failed on 3 of them (LRAND, WMATS+, WINVC). This was with both sticks in, haven't had a chance to test with each stick alone - and haven't had a chance to test with memtest. Any thoughts with this info so far? Please type slowly....I'm not a memory expert or anything!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mojorob Posted January 28, 2008 Author Share Posted January 28, 2008 I've now run memtest individually on the memory sticks. Both passed without errors. However I did notice a difference between the two - one showed 2193MB/s and the other as 1404MB/s (screenshots attached). Is this a problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted January 29, 2008 Corsair Employees Share Posted January 29, 2008 That is odd, but that MB only officially support DDR667 I would suggest testing them one up at DDR667 and see if the results are closer, if not them let's try replacing them. Please use the On Line RMA Request Form and we will be happy to replace them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mojorob Posted January 30, 2008 Author Share Posted January 30, 2008 Ok, I've done that and run memtest with a setting of 667 - there is still a difference between the two memory sticks as shown on that attached screenshots. This time round there's also a difference with L1 Cache and L2 Cache MB/s - quite a big difference. Here are the differences (also on the attached screenshots). L1 Cache: 15706MB/s L2 Cache: 17414MB/s Memory: 1788MB/s L1 Cache: 7834MB/s L2 Cache: 6023MB/s Memory: 1264MB/s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted January 30, 2008 Corsair Employees Share Posted January 30, 2008 Do you have any of the Auto Over Clocking or Auto Throttling features enabled? If so, you will need to have them disabled and the tested settings set manually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mojorob Posted January 31, 2008 Author Share Posted January 31, 2008 Nope - they're disabled. I've got an RMA number and shall return them in the packing I received them in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted January 31, 2008 Corsair Employees Share Posted January 31, 2008 No Problem, but I think the problem is with your system not the memory. But let me know when you get the new modules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mojorob Posted February 18, 2008 Author Share Posted February 18, 2008 Ok, I received the new modules today. I'm currently running memtest on the first module, and am on the first pass of tests. On Test 7 (Random number sequence) there are quite a lot of failures for this module. I've attached a screenshot that I took when the errors started to come up, but as I type this message there are over 120 errors so far on Test 7 (this test is 85% done so far). EDIT: To add to the above, memtest is now going through the 2nd pass. This time on Test 3 there were 8 errors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted February 19, 2008 Corsair Employees Share Posted February 19, 2008 With that CPU the memory frequency should be set to DDR667, and please set the memory Voltage to 2.0 Volts and set the TRC if it's listed to 24. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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