Hi all,

I ran Memtest, and lo and behold I had errors at 12 different memory
addresses, spread across both sticks of RAM. I ran it at both standard
settings (normal voltage, latencies by SPD 8 3 3 2.5) and corsair settings 7
2 2 2, and both times I ran it I got errors at exactly the same addresses.
Thanks for all your help, problem solved!

Regards,
Jason

"Ed" wrote in message
...
Memtest is available in ISO, burn it to a CD and boot off it.
Ed

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 07:49:30 +0100, "Jason" wrote:

KCB (all),

Lacking a floppy drive im finding it am little tricky to run memtest
(this
graphics workstation never noprmally needs an FDD!). However I will
scrounge
one from somewhere, and let you know how I get on.
Thanks very much for your advice

Regards,
Jason
"KCB" wrote in message
news:jcu9b.464679$YN5.311058@sccrnsc01...

"Jason" wrote in message
.. .
Hi all,

Having tried both the SPD and manual settings (when I use SPD the
BIOS
comes
up with the wrong latency values - it displayes 8-3-3-2.5 when the
settings
should be 6-3-3-2), as well as tweaking the core voltage (which btw
stays
constant), as well as tweaking the RAM voltage, as well as slowing
down
the
fsb, agp bus and the processor the problems still remain - I'm
thinking
either a HW conflict or bad RAM.
Would anyone have any ideas how to reproduce these errors? I've
tried
memory intensive apps and various loading programs to try and get the
computer to malfunction, but during all of these it seems strangely
stable...

Regards,
Jason

Does it work at 8-3-3-2.5?? I can get stable at these settings without
TwinX modules. Corsair website says 7-3-3-2 he
http://www.corsairmemory.com/corsair/xms.html#twinx
and then in their asus mobo memory guide, they recomment using only one
stick of TwinX (??) See that he
http://www.corsairmemory.com/corsair...us-Jul2003.pdf
Have you tried memtest86? This showed me some errors at faster timings
and
I learned to never boot into windows if memtest is showing errors
because
corrupt files are almost guaranteed. If you can show Corsair that a
respected testing program is showing errors at their recommended
settings
then I think that deserves an RMA without question. Good luck.



Athlon XP 3200+ @2.19GHz
Asus A7N8X Deluxe PCB 2.0 Bios 1005
Corsair XMS TwinX 1024MB PC3200C2
Creative SB Audigy 2 Platinum eX
HIS Excalibur Radeon 9800 Pro
Hauppage WinTV PCI Card
Adaptec AHA-2940U2W SCSI Controller
Windows XP SP1

The problem seems to be memory related - I get a few BSODs that
display
general page faults, and errors in both the paged and nonpaged
memory
areas.
This might indicate a faulty RAM module, which would make sense
considering
the other problems (file corruption when large files are copied,
CRC
errors
and general crashes / freezes).
Most of the hardware has been used in other systems, and
definitely
works (SCSI, Sound, TV and Video cards all work in an old PIII
800
system).
I have been unable to reproduce the errors that I'm seeing,
and
I
have
tried using a number of computer loading programs, such as
BurnInTest,
CPUBurn, Cacheburst, PCMark etc. I have no other memory to test
the
system
with, so I'm asking before I return the modules for testing.
I have been running the system without overclocking,
although I
have
changed the RAM latencies in the BIOS to the ones specified by
Corsair.
This
seems to make no difference to the problems. I have also tried
each
stick
individually on both channels, but the tests are inconclusive as
i
am
unable
to reproduce the errors 'on demand'.

Any ideas?
Jason