RAM Problem

by Z1ppo • 28 Feb 2008, 14:40 • Forums › Technology
Hi2u Crossfire-Readers!

I got a serious problem with my RAM :<

I got 2 Corsair DDR2-RAMsticks (Dualchan / each 1024MB / 800 MHz) and I got some bluescreens in the past few days when I was in 3D Mode.

I just checked my RAM with Memtest86 and I got nearly 80 Errors... I tested each RAMstick seperately and the crazy thing is that none of them got errors when checked alone... As soon as I put them in both and check again, I got my 80 errors again :/

Does anyone have an idea? A friend of mine talked about a memory virus or sth. like that... would that be possible? oO
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SuchY 28 Feb 2008, 14:41
Go to bios and change Vdimm/Vram to ~2.0 / 2.1v
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Z1ppo 28 Feb 2008, 15:13
Mhhhm isn't that a bit dangerous, I mean couldn't it completely damage my RAM? :o

EDIT: 2.05V reduced it to 76 errors and 2.1V reduced it to 8 errors
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Cwrd 28 Feb 2008, 14:53
yea, imo you need to increase voltage ~ i hope atleast :p
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deCap 28 Feb 2008, 14:53
guarantee np

and you sure you put them to slot 1 and 3 not 1 and 2 or smth?
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HugTheSub 28 Feb 2008, 14:57
windows would not boot with 1/2
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deCap 28 Feb 2008, 15:06
ok, learned something new again!
i always thought it would boot but not work or smth
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phunk 28 Feb 2008, 14:58
wont work i guess
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Z1ppo 28 Feb 2008, 15:12
1 & 3 are marked blue, so there's no way I would put them in the wrong slots ^^

Even swapped them, cleaned them, but still I got these errors
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dEzIrE 28 Feb 2008, 14:59
i have no idea o:, never heard about smth like that
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caesr 28 Feb 2008, 15:13
try and put the new memory in slot 1 and the older one in 2

and did you install it carefully or just smashed it in XD
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Z1ppo 28 Feb 2008, 15:19
Well there is no new and old RAM ^^

These 2 Sticks were in my PC when I bought it and yes, I put them in carefully again :D
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caesr 28 Feb 2008, 15:23
check if your slots are dirty
its always the little things that do it
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Z1ppo 28 Feb 2008, 15:40
cleaned them... still errors, wasn't the reason as it seems
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raki 28 Feb 2008, 15:20
raise the ram voltage to 2.05V
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Z1ppo 28 Feb 2008, 15:42
That reduced the errors to 76 and changing it to 2.1V even reduced it to 8 errors

Maybe I should put it to 2.125 or 2.150? Is there a critical border that I shouldn't cross?
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raki 28 Feb 2008, 15:45
which ram do you own? send me a link please


and which mobo
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Z1ppo 28 Feb 2008, 15:49
The short description is in German but the details are in English:

http://www.comstern.de/Corsair-XMS2-DDR2-800-1024MB-CL5-1a12164980.htm
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raki 28 Feb 2008, 15:50
i wouldnt go higher than 2.1v

on which board are they running?
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Z1ppo 28 Feb 2008, 15:53
ASUS P5N32-E SLI
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raki 28 Feb 2008, 15:57
dunno
i think its the board
update your bios with eZflash
should work then
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Z1ppo 28 Feb 2008, 15:58
Hmmm shouldn't I use the official Drivers from ASUS? :o

Btw I find some kind of Nintendo DS thingy when I google ezflash :D
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raki 28 Feb 2008, 16:02
http://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socket775/P5N32-E%20SLI/1403.zip

all you have to do is put it on an usb stick, press del while boot and select asus ezflash @ bios

then select the .bin and voila

i would try it
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Z1ppo 28 Feb 2008, 16:09
i will, especially coz the realease notes always say "enhaned compatibility with memory modules" ^^
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raki 28 Feb 2008, 16:11
gl =)
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Z1ppo 28 Feb 2008, 16:29
First of all, thx for ur help, but one last question:

Will it work with a USB Stick? The official manual says that the programme will load the file from drive A:\ which would be a floppy drive... but I don't have one ^^
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raki 28 Feb 2008, 16:29
ye it should, ive got the asus p5e and did it with my corsair usb stick :>
just try it
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Z1ppo 28 Feb 2008, 16:33
ok gonna do that, but first i make a nice backup ^^
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Z1ppo 28 Feb 2008, 17:20
OK gotta thank you again :)

You really helped me ^^ Still got 4 errors after the BIOS update but i guess thats way better than 80 :)

Hope that I'm aware of bluescreens now xD
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raki 28 Feb 2008, 17:54
hehe np dude
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FaTTony 28 Feb 2008, 15:25
Dual Channel not working maybe?
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bira 28 Feb 2008, 15:46
My guess is that there is some problem with the dualchan on the mobo. If it would have been a problem with the RAM u would have gotten the errors when testing them separately. At least at one of them.
Can u use slot 2 and 4 for dual mabye?
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Z1ppo 28 Feb 2008, 15:50
The RAM wasn't detected when I put them in these slots... guess that they have to be in the blue marked slots (1&3) ^^
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S3ti 28 Feb 2008, 17:42
anything overclocked?
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