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- May 3, 2003
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- Calgary, AB, Canada
ok... i was having problems with corsair 3200 xms ram. it would boot, but as soon as i saved any new bios settings it wouldn't boot anymore. Any other ram worked fine. The ram worked in 2 other boards, and the nf7-s worked with a bunch of other 2100 and 2700 i have. To find out what was going on, i bought some ocz 3200 platinum (the local store has this 7 day return policy, no questions asked). I started doing some memtests, and found that the ocz ram was not stable in test 5 and 8 with stock settings. After 5 hours of trying different things, i have found out that:
max with no errors: 197mHz, 2.6v DDR, 1.5v chipset
max with no errors: 216mHz, 2.6v DDR, 1.7v chipset
changing vdimm has no effect, but chipset voltage does. Does this (along with booting problems with corsair memory) mean that my motherboard is messed up, and that I should rma it? I mean, the chipset voltage shouldn't effect the ram overclock, right? If i rma the board, i might be able to get a bunch of money back by returning the ocz ram and using my corsair.
Thanks.
max with no errors: 197mHz, 2.6v DDR, 1.5v chipset
max with no errors: 216mHz, 2.6v DDR, 1.7v chipset
changing vdimm has no effect, but chipset voltage does. Does this (along with booting problems with corsair memory) mean that my motherboard is messed up, and that I should rma it? I mean, the chipset voltage shouldn't effect the ram overclock, right? If i rma the board, i might be able to get a bunch of money back by returning the ocz ram and using my corsair.
Thanks.
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