A8N memory problem

[Herbz]

I am a computer technician by trade and have built many systems before without any major problems but now iv just built myself a uber PC and have started to get blue screen errors.

I have narrowed my problem down by the usual methods of taking out all hardware except minimal requirements and then adding hardware and see what causes the blue screen.

First I thought my Audigy 2 was causing the problem but then I found out it was my memory. When I have my Corsair XMS 3200XLPT sticks in both blue slots for dual DDR mode the PC will always blue screen usually even before the desktop loads.

I swapped out the sticks when running with just one and they are both fine showing that one of the sticks wasn?t bad. The chances of Corsair XMS DDR RAM being faulty was highly unlikely I would of thought anyway. I even installed the latest BIOS.

At the moment I have the two sticks sitting along side each other and system seems fine but this is not dual channel mode.

I tried settings the timings in the bios but to no avail.

Thanks in advance for any help. Here are my specs:

Asus A8N-SLi Standard Edition (bios 1003)
AMD 64 3200+ Winchester
1 Gb Corsair XMS PC3200XLPT (2 x 512)
256Mb XFX PCI-E GF6800GT
600W Enermax Noisetaker PSU
Sony 16x DVD±RW Dual Layer
300Gb Maxtor Plus 10 (7200rpm,16MB) SATA HD's
2 X 80 GB Western Digital HD's
Creative Labs Audigy 2 ZS Platinum
Sony Silver 16x DVD-ROM + 48x
SilverStone "TEMJIN" J02S-W Case

 

[Herbz]

tested RAM with memtest and its ok. any1 else having similar probs?

 

[Arcanedeath]

Well test the ram w/ memtest in dual channel mode if it passes then you know it's not the ram, if it fails then you know it's the ram or the motherboard or possibly the PSU not supplying enough juice (the only reason I say that is cause it's a dual rail PSU and those have been know to cause issues w/ the A8N).

 

[JMag]

did you change the voltage settings in the BIOS form manual to the recommended voltage? I heard the auto setting can read SPD values incorrectly at times...