mushkin 3500 problems

[necromanx13x]

Im having some problems getting my 2x256 pc3500 lvl2 chips in dual channel to run stable now for some reason. Im trying to get it to run at 217, 1:1, 2,2,2,11 which are stock settings. However, I have tried all voltages from 1.7-1.85 and regardless of the voltage, I have problems in memtest. At 1.7-1.75 I get errors in some of the tests in the first pass. However, when I go up to 1.8-1.85 I dont get errors but memtest runs for about an hour and then totally freezes. I did a vdimm mod to my board so I would be able to adjust the voltages eaiser and all these voltages were taken with a multimeter. I also tried running the sticks in both slots 1&3 and 2&3 but that didnt really make a difference either. Does anyone have any ideas what I can do?

[Grandpa Dan]

if memtest freezes disable legacy usb in the bios. Is that vcore or did you mean 2.8v for the ram?

[Rocko[DPC]]

Yea do you mean to change all those 1. voltages to 2. voltages? Clarify that first.

If youre talking about 2. voltages, and its freezing at 2.8, I suspect cooling problems. What are your case temps like? Try running it with the door open and a house fan blowing inside and see what happens there.

Though I've only used 512 mb sticks of ram, I could not get anything to run dual channel on my NF7S v2. Try running single channel and see what happens.

[necromanx13x]

Yeah i meant 2.8, whoops. Well, I flashed my bios from the supposedly amazing and awesome bios10 to the newest, bios 21, and now memtest seems to be fine. I ran it for about 2 hours at the same settings and no errors and it didnt freeze. I got sick of it though so I turned it off but ill run it again tonight for 12 hours or so just to make sure everything is ok. I never knew the bios could make such a big difference.

[necromanx13x]

Well Im stable now but I have to run my ram at 2.85V in order to run at stock settings of 217 2,2,2,11. Isnt this voltage just a bit too high for stock settings? Anything below this causes p95 to fail early.