Memory problems
 

I replaced my Asus A7n8x as it had a capacitor that had started whining, a shame, as it was a very stable motherboard. I chose an ABIT NF7-S 2.0 as I'd heard good things about them, I also bought a 512mb stick of Corsair CMX 3200 LLPT memory, trouble is, if I use that memory in this board the PC constantly reboots with all sorts of BSOD's, if I take it out and put in my sh*tey generic PC3200/2700 mix, it works perfectly. Is this a known problem with the Abit boards or am I doing something tremendously wrong?

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It can be a problem, it also depends what slot you have it in, try them all, I couldn't get mine to run it dual channel mode unless I put it in the slots it specified not to put them in!

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It's nothing to do with the dual channel setup as it blue screens when it's on it's own. I'm just shocked that so called quality memory that costs me £129 for a single 512mb stick is that flakey, I certainly won't be buying Corsair again :(

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As you know i had trouble with my A7N8X Deluxe rev 2 so, i`ve just bought an Abit A7N Motherboard, Don`t tell me i`ll have the same problems with my Crucial PC3200 DDR as before!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:erm:

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I recommend you go and buy the cheapest nastiest memory you can ... just like I did, works like a charm and I still hit nearly 6000 with 3d mark 05.

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so is it a case of paying for a brand name or have you just got a duff stick of ram ????????? :angel:

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Brand new, supposedly tested duff stick of ram, either way I'm far from impressed.

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I'm running 1GB of Corsair XMS Pro and have never had RAM problems.

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i'll bet you are , whats the chances of returning it and getting a replacement/refund ???????????

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Yeah, that helps no end, thanks.

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So you got a bad stick of RAM, it happens.
Don't blame Corsair because it could happen to any manufacturer.

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Refund hopefully, I was hoping to nail it down to a problem elsewhere, e.g. timings, BIOS etc, but it looks just to be faulty.

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as long as they will accept it back as faulty then i suppose you are ok , what makes me wonde though is how much better it will be compared to generic s**t ram :erm:

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just as a question why is 'generic' ram really bad ? compaired to a branded stick ?

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Its nothing to do with being branded or not, it's down to the timings and overclockability. You can buy sh*t branded memory if you wanted to, but the stuff I bought was low latency