Befuddled Posted August 18, 2008 Share Posted August 18, 2008 The makeup of one of my computers is A7N8X Deluxe, Barton 3200+, BFG 6800 Ultra OC, Antec 380w. I have been running 2 sticks of Corsair 3200 512 Mg (2.5-4-4-9) for years in slots 1 & 3. Recently my game, HGL, has been freezing frequently. Seeing as I could only justify upgrading the ram I ordered two sticks of 3200 1G (3-3-3-8). The game continued to freeze so I downloaded Memtest. It found a few errors so I returned the ram and received replacements last week. The game continued to freeze so I tried Memtest again. WHOA, thousands of errors. I moved the stick from slot 1 and placed it in slot 2. Ran complete suite of tests with no errors. I then moved stick back to slot 1. Not good. The test sticks at 98% of test 5. Some of the stats are: Error confidence value 81 Low address 00000001ff9 High address 000000838B8 Bits in error mask b2080001 Max contiguous error 1 Errors 32767 While I was copying this information the application continued to rack up errors. I had to hit the power button to stop it as escape would not exit the program. At that point it had listed over 31,000,000 errors. I would have to speculate that my Mboard is headed south but I thought I would run this by you. Also when I run memtest on the 512 Mb sticks in slot 1 and 3 I get no errors. I have tried with both 2.6v and 2.7v Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted August 19, 2008 Corsair Employees Share Posted August 19, 2008 Please make sure that you have the latest BIOS and then install the modules in slots 2-3 and then load setup defaults and set these settings and run http://www.memtest.org and test the modules if you still get errors test them one at a time in slots one. CPU Freq: 200 MHz System Performance: User Define Memory Frequency: 100% Dim Voltage to 2.8 Volts Resulting Frequency: 200 MHz Memory timings: Manual Would results in these settings SDRAM CAS Latency: 2.5T SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay (tRCD): 3T SDRAM Row Precharge (tRP): 3T SDRAM Active to Precharge Delay (tRAS): 6T Graphics Aperture Size is 128 MB Legacy USB Disabled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Befuddled Posted August 20, 2008 Author Share Posted August 20, 2008 Thanks for the direction. I won't be able to get to it until this weekend but will let you know how it works out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted August 20, 2008 Corsair Employees Share Posted August 20, 2008 Yes please do let me know. Also I would suggest testing the modules in another system if you can to be sure if you still get errors that MB and chipset was very temperamental. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Befuddled Posted August 24, 2008 Author Share Posted August 24, 2008 Made the adjustments you recommended and memtest ran with no errors. Also memtest now documents the frequency at 200 whereas before it was showing 198 Thanks much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted August 25, 2008 Corsair Employees Share Posted August 25, 2008 NP and thank you for letting me know. I have had a slew of that model and other variants of the ASUS Nforce socket A MB and these setting will work with every one I tried. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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