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#271 Post by **palmboy5** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 2:04 am

ok both sticks seem identical ><

#272 Post by **palmboy5** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 2:27 am

Dear Gigaram Inc.,

For months I have been able to do over 24 hours of Dual Prime95 (stability checking program) on my system with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ E6 revision, ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe 1.01 revision, and of course the GR1DD8T-K2GB/500. At both the stock speed of 10x 200MHz FSB and 10x 250MHz FSB, with RAM voltages ranging from 2.6V to 2.8V, I have been experiencing random strange freezes mainly from Windows XP's 'explorer.exe'. Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 also seems to always give an error message saying a frame went bad when trying to save a large video file. Due to Prime95 never having crashed at these settings, I shrugged it off as a problem with Windows and Premiere Pro. But I have recently tried Memtest86 (another, better, RAM checking program) and was not surprised to find that it would produce hundreds of errors starting from 20-40% into Memtest86's 'pass'. I have tried testing with just a single stick of RAM, for both sticks, as well as various voltages between 2.6 and 2.8V, and it is the same result. What can I do to fix this problem?

A Customer,
Victor

P.S. I let the motherboard automatically chose the timings for the RAM except for Command Rate, which I set to 1T. The basic resulting timing is 3-4-4-8. I have tried 3-4-3-8 and always got a quick system crash. Why is the RAM defaulting at 3-4-4-8 and won't work at 3-4-3-8 even when that is the advertised timing?

this'll be interesting

2005 · #273 Post by **2005** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 11:29 am

Try memtest at 2T, but still hundreds of errors is a bad thing. Pull those sticks from your rig and memtest in another rig to be 100% sure. That way you can tell them without a doubt the sticks ARE bad.

I've yet to memtest mine.... I will tonight o-o

#274 Post by **palmboy5** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 4:31 pm

lmao, i dont trust my earlier gamer PC, i think its been corruptive since i got the motherboard replaced.. the only other system with DDR RAM is my dad's and its currently on a ontime race, i think its like 130 days right now... the old laptops owning it though XD my HP celeron PC has been on for a pretty damn long time... lol the only PCs that seem to error out after a few weeks are my two gamers, the ones ive tweaked

i guess i suck. so bottom line, i cant check the sticks on another system. best case scenario is that i get gigaram to refund me and ill get them G-Skill DDR500 black sticks. mmm good stuff

#275 Post by **palmboy5** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 9:37 am

what the hell is going on T__T prime fail: 4 hours

I7Iz490N · #276 Post by **I7Iz490N** » Sat Jun 03, 2006 11:02 pm

#277 Post by **palmboy5** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 1:44 am

only nub pc users think the speed increase from restarting actually helps

1337 pc users leave the pc on so it is always ready to be used when the user WANTS to use it

2005, how was memtest

2005 · #278 Post by **2005** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 12:03 pm

Still have yet to run it... it will be ran tonight

Running something like freeram xp pro is all you need... does the same thing as restarting.

And PB restart times can be disregarded. Before NIS 06 my pc shut down and was back into windows in under 1 min... a cold boot was about 40 seconds to be into windows with everything loaded up.

I7Iz490N · #279 Post by **I7Iz490N** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 1:50 pm

2005 · #280 Post by **2005** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 4:18 pm

Ran memtest86 for 1.5 hours and had zero errors. Passed twice and was on test 4 when I quit I believe. Ill run it overnight tonight to make sure.

#281 Post by **palmboy5** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 4:42 pm

my system has a mysteriously long start time, longer than my earlier PC. but i dont care :]

i had a hunch this morning that the instabilities are because of the 'recently' updated BIOS, so i decided to go from 1103 back to 1009, unfortunately the within-windows utility wont let you back flash so i had to spend an hour finding a floppy drive, finding usable disks, finding a damn DOS boot because the one XP makes doesnt have a damn COMMAND.COM.

then within DOS i kept trying to flash A8N321009.ROM but it keeps saying it cant be read, so i went to 0903 and it flashed, now memtesting and... ITS GOOD!

it always errored at 27 or 44% pass but now its at 72% and going good

I7Iz490N · #282 Post by **I7Iz490N** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 6:19 pm

#283 Post by **palmboy5** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 7:04 pm

its fixed now

I7Iz490N · #284 Post by **I7Iz490N** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 7:23 pm

#285 Post by **palmboy5** » Sun Jun 04, 2006 8:19 pm

yes

i just need to reboot and set the RAM divider away from Auto