- May 28, 2002
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Hello everyone,
I just bought two 512MB sticks of PC-3200 DDR400 Kingston ValueRAM (Infineon chips) and am having a tough time with them. I bought them to replace two 256 generic Samsung sticks in my aging ECS K7S5A which have been working flawlessly together for 3 years.
When I have the Kingstons in, Windows randomly has problems and sometimes I cannot boot up.
I ran Memtest86+ v1.50 twice overnight and it reported errors. Funny thing is that I tested each stick individually in each RAM slot overnight and I got no errors!! :-S Memtest works fine with the two old Samsungs in.
So I figured it must have something to do with my old ass K7S5A not liking those Kingstons but last night I tried running the same two Kingston sticks in my ASUS A7N8X-X and it had the same problem! Memtest86+ failed on two different runs! Right now I'm running Memtest on one stick but I'm assuming both of them will come out clean like when in my K7S5A.
Timings used...
ECS K7S5A: SPD 2.5-3-3-7 at "overclocked" 143 FSB (don't laugh cause I am)
ASUS A7N8X-X: SPD 3-3-3-8 at 200FSB
My question(s):
What would cause two of the same sticks not to work together but work fine individually? I'm assuming I got bad RAM since this happens on two different boards but how would I be able to prove this since individual RAM tests come out clean? I predict I'm going to have a tough time returning these.
Please help before I lose all my hair!
Thanks in advance to all the tweak monkeys who reply.
Andy
I just bought two 512MB sticks of PC-3200 DDR400 Kingston ValueRAM (Infineon chips) and am having a tough time with them. I bought them to replace two 256 generic Samsung sticks in my aging ECS K7S5A which have been working flawlessly together for 3 years.
When I have the Kingstons in, Windows randomly has problems and sometimes I cannot boot up.
I ran Memtest86+ v1.50 twice overnight and it reported errors. Funny thing is that I tested each stick individually in each RAM slot overnight and I got no errors!! :-S Memtest works fine with the two old Samsungs in.
So I figured it must have something to do with my old ass K7S5A not liking those Kingstons but last night I tried running the same two Kingston sticks in my ASUS A7N8X-X and it had the same problem! Memtest86+ failed on two different runs! Right now I'm running Memtest on one stick but I'm assuming both of them will come out clean like when in my K7S5A.
Timings used...
ECS K7S5A: SPD 2.5-3-3-7 at "overclocked" 143 FSB (don't laugh cause I am)
ASUS A7N8X-X: SPD 3-3-3-8 at 200FSB
My question(s):
What would cause two of the same sticks not to work together but work fine individually? I'm assuming I got bad RAM since this happens on two different boards but how would I be able to prove this since individual RAM tests come out clean? I predict I'm going to have a tough time returning these.
Please help before I lose all my hair!
Thanks in advance to all the tweak monkeys who reply.
Andy
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