Faulty memory or MB?

Dodgy Bob · 25 May 2007 at 17:38

Hi all,

Just received new goodies from OCUK. It includes 2 x 1GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2 PC2-5300C3 667MHz.

Put everything together, booted first time (that's a first and I've been building PCs since 1993)!! However, on installing Windows I started getting errors and I thought of memory problems straight away.

Sure enough, running memtest+ gives thousands of errors on each stick during 1 pass. Tested each stick seperately and in each of the four slots.

But, my question is, as each stick gives errors and the locations reported for the first couple of errors each time I start the tests vary, could this be a MB problem instead of memory?

MB is Gigabyte DS3P rev3.3.

Thanks for your help.

Bob.

Dodgy Bob · 25 May 2007 at 18:09

Thanks for reply Cob. Below is the current (auto in bios) settings of the memory. This is what I've been testing on (on got single stick in atm).

Dodgy Bob · 25 May 2007 at 18:37

RAM volts are 1.8 (default I believe). Do you think I should change it?

Dodgy Bob · 25 May 2007 at 19:08

So Triggethat, are you married?

Thank you very much, it worked a treat

I only ran memtest for 10 mins but it gave no errors at all.

Looking at the memory specs it's a schoolboy error, it specifies 2.2, but I didn't know that the MB was 1.8 by default.

I used to overclock years ago when I was a young slip of a lad but these days if I want a faster machine I'll buy faster hardware

That and the fact that having kids means you have no time to "play". So now I just take all the defaults on BIOS and leave it at that.

tbh though, this little investigation has got me all interested again

Once again, thanks for your help!

Dodgy Bob · 25 May 2007 at 21:57

triggerthat said:
lol - why do you ask?

Now, set your ram to (1:1 - this is the same as 2.0 multiplier) and run it at 333 with 4-4-4-12

Cos you sorted my problem and I want to marry you

I'll get to tweak on Monday (maybe). Spending this evening loading up new machine, emptying sons case of old bits, putting my old bits in his case, loading up his machine.

Tomorrow I have to paint the hall

Sunday is Games Day \o/ (basically a local LAN event we hold every so often).

Dodgy Bob · 27 May 2007 at 21:54

Just one me and a few mates hold. Just got back now, PC been working fine all day, plugged it in back at home and it's doing that stupid powercycle-before-bios thing (Gigabyte DS3P)