Will pc3200 RAM with CL3 compatible with overclock athlon XP 2500+

[ksatria]

I have athlon XP 2500+ and kingston PC3200+ with CL3 on my Asus A7v600 motherboard.

My question is will my memory will work fine with overclock athlon XP2500+?

The reason I asked this question that I got problem with my computer last week where I couldn't boot up my computer. When I tried to reinstall windows, i lost all my drive partition, what come up was only this sign |) besides my partition which is usually C:, D:, etc.
I can't reinstall my windows, however there were a error message: "Page_fault in Non_Paged Area"
When I checked knowledgebase in windows.com, There were many suggestion that may cause the error. One of them stated: "The memory is defective"

Luckily I have maxtorblast 3 to reformat my hard drive and reinstall windows, but i loose some of my file. It works fine right now, it seems the memory work just fine, but i am afraid the same problem will come up again.
So please let me know, if anybody know answer to my question and also the cause of that error message.

I really appriciate for the reply.

 

[WobbleWobble]

Your RAM should work with your motherboard. Download Memtest86+ and run it for several hours to see if your RAM is working fine or not.

Also, your overclock may not be 100% stable. I'm against the common belief that almost all XP2500+ chips can hit 3200+ at stock voltage and stuff and can pass CPU intensive tests like Prime95. Windows installations can be very finicky if you're overclocking.

Do you get the errors at stock speeds?

 

[edmundoab]

should not experience any problems with CL3 ram
there are alot of rams with high FSB support but relax timings like 3-4-4-8

 

[myocardia]

It sounds as if you either ruined your hard-drive, or you have your pci bus so far "out of spec", that the processor isn't able to read the data from it correctly. Your board doesn't have pci/agp locks. That's why all of us overclockers use nForce2 boards, so we can lock both buses at 33 & 66mhz, respectively, and set our fsb to anything that our processors & ram can handle. With that board, you have to keep the proc.'s fsb at either 266, 333, or 400, or close enough to one of the 3 not to hurt any of your components (1-6mhz is always safe, some hd's can handle up to about 10mhz higher than they're designed for). Also, you should always install Windows with a non-overclocked system, ESPECIALLY if you don't have a pci lock.