Need some help

[Salthi]

For some reason my ram keeps failing memtest as stock complete stock levels. I've been using the ram in an msi board for over a month now so I know it's good. Is their some sort of trick needed to make ballstix ram work on a nf4 ultra-d?

[seamuso]

what test(s) is it failing?

 

have you tried each piece individually to see if it a specific stick that is causing the errors?

[AndrewZorn]

ive heard bad things about the ballistix in these boards you might want to search around for that

[Sharp]

Hello,

 

I have heard good things about Ballistix

 

What BIOS are you using? (623-3)?

 

Can you try this.

GENIE BIOS Setting

>DRAM Configuration..................Press Enter = New Menu

FSB BUS Frequency....................200

DRAM Voltage Control.................2.80V

 

Run MemTest86+.......................Enabled

GENIE BIOS Setting >DRAM Configuration

DRAM Frequency Set (MHZ).............200 (DRAM/FSB:1/01)

Command per clock (CPC)..............Disabled

Cas latency (tCL)....................3

RAS to CAS delay (tRCD)..............4

Min RAS active time (tRAS)...........8

Row precharge time (tRP).............4

Row cycle time (tRC).................AUTO

Row refresh cycle time(tRFC).........AUTO

Row to Row delay (tRRD)..............AUTO

Write recovery time (tWR)............AUTO

Write to read delay (tWTR)...........AUTO

Read to write delay (tRWT)...........AUTO

Refresh period (tREF)................AUTO

Write CAS latency (tWCL).............AUTO

DRAM Bank Interleave.................Enabled

 

DQS Skew Control.....................Decrease Skew

DQS Skew Value.......................0

DRAM Drive Strength..................AUTO

DRAM Data Drive Strength.............AUTO

Max Async Latency....................6ns

Dram Response........................Normal

Read Preamble Time...................5ns

Idle Cycle Limit.....................AUTO

Dynamic Counter......................Disabled

R/W Queue Bypass.....................AUTO

Bypass Max...........................AUTO

32 Byte Granularity..................Disable (8 Bursts)

 

The AUTO settings can be tweaked later.

[Salthi]

Ok well somewhere along the lines one of my sticks crapped out on me, so I've gone on and filled an rma on that. But now I have anotheir problem, whenever I try to stress both cores on my x2 using superpi for example the program crashes. Indepently both cores can run this test fine but when they both run full throttle I crash,playing with the voltages doesn't seem to help much either. Has anyone else experinced a problem like this?

[Fire-N-Ice]

are you rma'ing both sticks? since it is a dual channel kit this would be a good idea. otherwise your chancing getting a stick that doesn't cooperate with the one you have, even though independantly, it works good.

[Guest gandalf]

fire-n-ice, how did you oc your monitor?

[AndrewZorn]

ive heard of that if you run 130hz or more to it you can actually make the screen get bigger it kind of pops out like a hologram

[Sharp]

Salthi Have you tried my settings?

 

For dual core CPUs you must use BIOS 623.

 

What BIOS are you using?

[Fire-N-Ice]

ive heard of that if you run 130hz or more to it you can actually make the screen get bigger it kind of pops out like a hologram

 

 

LOL! I can't tell you how I do it cause it's a trade secret and I own the patent. For a price I can OC yours. Send me your old one and I'll send it back OC'd.

[Salthi]

Salthi Have you tried my settings?

 

For dual core CPUs you must use BIOS 623.

 

What BIOS are you using?

 

I tried the 6/23 bios for awhile, I've been testing the 7/04 recently