Memory nightmare

chameleon

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As I posted in another thread, I developed a problem with one of my memory sticks. The system worked fine on one stick (1gig) albeit bloody slowly. I invested in two sticks of that nice Kingston DDR2 stuff and installed it today. I am getting nothing but trouble. One stick, two sticks, it makes no difference I get BSODs while loading so I ran memtest. It's the worst Ive ever seen! Sometimes it even shuts down with an error before it even starts. It locks up on boot and sometimes won't even post. I've tried it on safe settings 5-5-5-18 @ 1.85v or auto to no avail. I tried it on 5-5-5-15 @ 2.1v and that didn't work. Now it won't even boot to windows as it says the windows config file is mssing! I think it's killed my system. I'm at my wits end as I can't get anywhere. Help!
Oh I nearly forgot, my mobo is a Asus p5n32e sli-plus with a Core 2 6420 CPU @2.13g. I'll try popping the CMOS battery when I get home.
 
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As above (complete spec and auto), plus how old is the BIOS - it may be worth flashing to the latest release?

Plus, if it's the Kingston 8500 try bumping up the voltage (2.2v if you have to; although this would indicate a fault at 6400 speeds but can be required at 8500.) as i've recently installed the same memory into a friends rig and it requires all the voltage to keep it stable (admittedly at 1066Mhz)

This is not the norm as mine runs at ~2.0v under a heavy clock at ~940Mhz and BigWayne has his running at ~1.8v at 1066MHz - but it appears that some sets require more juice so it's worth testing.

But if it does require the full 2.2v to run at 800MHz then something is a miss. (TBH, anything over 1.9V @ 800Mhz means something is a miss - settings/hardware.)
 
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Well, progress f sorts. I have everything set to auto and I'm sitting here typing this and no BSOD yet (touch wood) Not tried the second stick in yet but every time I try to run Memtest from a bootup cd it is a disaster, seems to get about midway through test 3 then comes up with a whole bunch of errors and freezes...?
 
I'm starting to wonder about that. I just ran Memtest from Windows, instant BSOD!
Its gonna be a collosal PITA to mess with my mobo as I have a custom built PC with all the nice neat wiring all wrapped n cable tied. Would need to rip the entire thing to bits to change MOBO...
 
Will ddr2 work in a system that uses ddr3? My friend has just got himself a spanky new machine I could try it on though I doubt its the memory if I was getting errors with the old stuff and now with the brand new ones.

CPUZ reports
Dram Freq 400mhz
fsb-dram 2:3
Timings of 5-5-5-18
Bank Cycle 23
cr: 2t
At a voltage of 1.8 i think.

These figures appear to be right to me.
 
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