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Cob · 7 Jun 2007 at 22:31

The Memory forum is quite quiet as the best of times, dude.

And there's probably few people with your combination of memory and motherboard. AM2 isn't very popular tbh.

Yellowbeard will probably offer some assistance when he's next aboard

taz488 · 7 Jun 2007 at 22:47

Craig321 · 8 Jun 2007 at 00:07

taz488 said:
okie dokie, this is the least of my worries atm tbh anyway, i got a physics test in the morning

i decided to test the ram with sp2004 and i clicked on test some ram n this is what happened

Type: Large, in-place FFTs - stress some RAM Min: 128 Max: 1024 InPlace: Yes Mem: 8 Time: 15
CPU: 2412MHz FSB: 200MHz [201MHz x 12.0 est.]
07/06/2007 22:44 Beginning a continuous self-test to check your computer.
Press Stop to end this test.
Test 1, 4000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M19922945 using 1024K FFT length.
FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.5, expected less than 0.4
Hardware failure detected, consult stress.txt file.
Torture Test ran 0 minutes 7 seconds - 1 errors, 0 warnings.
Execution halted.

anyone know that that means? and i cant find stress.txt, im gettin worried at the words 'hardware failure'

So all your games work well and don't crash with your new set of RAM? But they crash with the old RAM?

Snap the old RAM in half tbh

MoodyB · 8 Jun 2007 at 04:13

taz488 said:
as its dual channel it should run at 333Mhz but CPU-Z says its a 301.6, why is this? is it a problem? on the boot up screen it says 667Mhz so im not sure if its just CPU-Z

This is because your ram is on a divider in the bios due to you overclocking. It's really running at 301.6x2=603.2mhz ( DDR2 = double the speed CPU-Z shows )

taz488 said:
anyone know that that means? and i cant find stress.txt, im gettin worried at the words 'hardware failure'

Hardware failure in SP2004 / Orthos normally means your cpu / ram is unstable at your current overclocked settings. Increasing the ram or cpu voltage a little should sort it.

If you can manually set your ram timings in the bios then set the command rate to 2T first, before increasing the voltages, and see if that helps with the crashes when loading games / errors in SP2004.

taz488 · 8 Jun 2007 at 07:15

taz488 · 8 Jun 2007 at 14:42

MoodyB · 8 Jun 2007 at 17:28

Did you try lowering the HT multiplier yet ?

Yellowbeard · 8 Jun 2007 at 20:08

My AM2 OCing is a but rusty but, you may need to bump the voltages a little with 4 DIMMs. Try a little more on the CPU to give the memory controller a boost and also the chipset. If lowering the HTT solves it, ignore this.