DDR error

[Nick1881]

Hi, new here just brought some new stuff from OC and I have had a little problem, 1st what I brought.

Core 2 duo E6300
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3
Geil 2x1Gb PC6400 Cas 4
Sapphire Radeon X1950pro 512mb
Arctic cooling Freezer 7 pro

All was running fine for the 1st day, 2nd day I was out for 30 mins came back and the system was bleeping, I shut down and checked temps in the bios, CPU was only 27 C, I looked in the manual and it says long continous beeps is DDR error, im thinking maybe faulty memory, I have heard there have been lots of problems with Geil, also a friend of mine says there is a compatabilty issue with my mobo and the geil mem, is this right? Should I swap to something else? he said go for G.Skill.

I ran SP2004 earlier for over an hour and got no errors.

After I rebooted the bleeping stopped, it started later on and stopped again, then it did it once more a few hours ago yet now its fine, seems it only does it if I leave it doing nothing.

Any help or advice would be great, thanks guys.

Nick

 

[stoofa]

Two quick questions:

1. Are you running the latest BIOS release for your motherboard?
2. Have you given the Geil memory the + .3v (to 2.1 over the default 1.8v) that the little leaflet mentions?

 

[Nick1881]

Now its doing 1 non stop beep, wtf does that mean?

1. No i didnt know that, just upped it now but it didnt stop the beep.
2. I updated the Bios to F10 but then I could no longer run my game Rainbow Six 3 so I put it back to F7, I dont know why it stopped this game loading, I tried everything else even re-installed windows.

Just started running Prime95 and the bleep has stopped, its like it only does it when cold and not under load.

Im gonna go insane...

 

[Nick1881]

Got an RMA number so returning the Geil and already ordered the G.Skill, hope it sorts it. Also ordered a case fan and mounts.

Can anyone tell me if a 550w Colours-it psu will be up to the job of a mild oc? or should I ask in another section.

Thanks

Nick