P4P Deluxe & Kingston memory

yyao · 06-10-2003, 11:48 PM

I have a P4P Deluxe running 2x256 Kingston HyperX (HKX3200/256).

I read the review at Anandtech (http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.html?i=1828), in which they used the same RAM I have without any difficulty.

However, my system reboots randomly (mostly during or immediately after a 3D game). I think the memory might be bad. How do I test it?

Edit: Nothing is overclocked, Vantec Stealth 420W PSU

ChiefSwabJockey · 06-12-2003, 11:46 AM

Right now it seems that the most popular purely memory testing method (without having to have any special hardware, just in case you don't live inside of a memory fabrication plant) is a tool called memtest86. It actually boots into it's own "OS" and doesn't run on top of anything else, so it's about as close to the iron as you can get.

You can get it (free) at http://www.memtest86.com/

Let us know what your results with it were, if you're not overclocking your PC, and you get most random reboots immediately following starting a 3D game you might have to look into the possibility that your video hardware has something wrong with it (clocked too high, poor ventilation, is the fan working?).

Ask one of your friends to bring over a stick of whatever kind of memory he's using to throw in your PC, and see if it makes any difference.

Your motherboard might be detecting the SPD on your memory incorrectly, try going into your BIOS and setting whatever memory timings that it allows you to adjust to the most relaxed that it'll go, if that fixes it, slowly ramp up the timings until you find where the instability starts. If the timings are below the specifications you paid for, you can try taking the memory back to where you bought it for a replacement, or calling Kingston directly and making a big stink about it - if you make enough of a stink (say you lost a ton of important work related data?) they may send you a better module than you paid for as a replacement. It's worth a shot, and I believe that the loudmouthed consumer has much more power than most think. =)

yyao · 06-12-2003, 02:52 PM

It appears that setting 'automatic' on perfomance on ASUS mobo was a bad idea.

I set it to standard/normal/whatever the first one was and haven't had a crash since. Also, CPU-Z shows my memory timings as 2-2-2-5 (b4 it was higher numbers)....lower is good, right?

Ec]-[oMaN · 06-12-2003, 03:07 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by yyao
It appears that setting 'automatic' on perfomance on ASUS mobo was a bad idea.

I set it to standard/normal/whatever the first one was and haven't had a crash since. Also, CPU-Z shows my memory timings as 2-2-2-5 (b4 it was higher numbers)....lower is good, right?

yeah lower timmings are faster =)

06-10-2003, 11:48 PM	#1
yyao Registered User Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 5	P4P Deluxe & Kingston memory I have a P4P Deluxe running 2x256 Kingston HyperX (HKX3200/256). I read the review at Anandtech (http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.html?i=1828), in which they used the same RAM I have without any difficulty. However, my system reboots randomly (mostly during or immediately after a 3D game). I think the memory might be bad. How do I test it? Edit: Nothing is overclocked, Vantec Stealth 420W PSU Last edited by yyao : 06-10-2003 at 11:55 PM.
(Offline)

06-12-2003, 11:46 AM	#2
ChiefSwabJockey Registered User Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Toronto, ON Posts: 9	Right now it seems that the most popular purely memory testing method (without having to have any special hardware, just in case you don't live inside of a memory fabrication plant) is a tool called memtest86. It actually boots into it's own "OS" and doesn't run on top of anything else, so it's about as close to the iron as you can get. You can get it (free) at http://www.memtest86.com/ Let us know what your results with it were, if you're not overclocking your PC, and you get most random reboots immediately following starting a 3D game you might have to look into the possibility that your video hardware has something wrong with it (clocked too high, poor ventilation, is the fan working?). Ask one of your friends to bring over a stick of whatever kind of memory he's using to throw in your PC, and see if it makes any difference. Your motherboard might be detecting the SPD on your memory incorrectly, try going into your BIOS and setting whatever memory timings that it allows you to adjust to the most relaxed that it'll go, if that fixes it, slowly ramp up the timings until you find where the instability starts. If the timings are below the specifications you paid for, you can try taking the memory back to where you bought it for a replacement, or calling Kingston directly and making a big stink about it - if you make enough of a stink (say you lost a ton of important work related data?) they may send you a better module than you paid for as a replacement. It's worth a shot, and I believe that the loudmouthed consumer has much more power than most think. =)
(Offline)

06-12-2003, 02:52 PM	#3
yyao Registered User Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 5	It appears that setting 'automatic' on perfomance on ASUS mobo was a bad idea. I set it to standard/normal/whatever the first one was and haven't had a crash since. Also, CPU-Z shows my memory timings as 2-2-2-5 (b4 it was higher numbers)....lower is good, right?
(Offline)

Thread Tools
Show Printable Version Email this Page
Display Modes
Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode