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does bad memory cause corruption?

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m1ke101

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I just got a stick of generic pc3200 (which i'm going to return) and I can run it fine at 166fsb. My old samsung pc2700 on generic pcb could do the same stable. Since it is pc3200, I thought I could run it at 200fsb, but I was sure wrong. It was totally unstable. I tried it at 180fsb, with a 10x multiplier, and I experienced a corrupted windows file, and I had to do a windows recovery. Is that normal? because I know I tried the samsung at high fsbs, and although it was not stable, it never corrupted by hard drive. I did replace my hard drive recently, so I'm not sure if that is the problem. Also, I was thinking it might be because I was running my agp/pci out of spec, but at 180fsb, it would only be by a few mhz. Anyone have any ideas? Is it the memory or is it the devices? I'm hoping its the memory because I'm getting some hyperx pc3000 soon and I want to be able to hit 200fsb 🙂
 
If u get the "window protection...", up the vcore a notch & c if u still get the windows corruption.
 
I had 2 sticks of Crucial 2100 DDR - a 256 and a 512
PC worked fine one day, would not load XP the next. Tried repairing from XP cd but kept getting 'file not read' errors. Tried several times, same message, different files. Loaded ME on a different partition. Loaded fine. After removing all non-essentials - cd, sound, SCSI, etc. - tried repairing xp again. No luck.

Back in ME I downloaded Memtest86 and ran it. Bingo ! My 256 stick was bad. Removed it and ran the XP repair again. Everything worked fine.

Now why XP and not ME I don't know. XP more memory intensive ??? But for whatever reason the bad memory was mucking up data transfer in XP and not ME.

So yes, a bad stick of memory can mess with you. Oh, The BIOS did not report bad memory on the POST and ME system info showed it as good. Memtest86 works well.
 
Since your getting new ram anyways you'll find if it's that or the HDD isn't liking the extra PCI speed.
 
Yeah, what DAPANISHER said. Your board does'nt officially support the DDR400 spec. So be prepared for more of the same problems. A few MHz over is all it takes.
 
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