Re: XP tantrums... Memory ?
- From: "RJK" <nosuch@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 13:45:06 +0100
...sorry my (British) humour (exaggeration) ..i.e. "...all up to date with
lots of megabytes of MS updates ...all updates since SP3 !
regards, Richard
"R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSpam_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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43gb's - Are you saying MS updates added 43 Gigabytes to your PC ?
You'd probably get better answers from one of the Overclocker's forums.
Those folks are much more tuned in to the things that affect timing on
RAM and voltage settings. What little I know about Overclocking is
that some tunings are BIOS dependant. Settings might fail using one
version of BIOS but work with another.
"RJK" <nosuch@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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XP Home ed. SP3 + 43gb's updates from MS ! :-)
Asus M3N78 | x6000 Windsor | 2x1gb Crucial Ballistix - (set to 4-4-4-12 @
2.000volts)
...it's been fine for past few months. This morning it wouldn't boot -
hanging on a black screen with blinking cursor upper left screen.
Hard booted a couple of times and eventually Windows loaded but, after a
minute or so would become unresponsive smack bang in the middle of
something it was doing, but mouse arrow could still be moved around the
screen for a while then even that would freeze up. e.g. Windows check
hd for errors hung up on me with hd led remaining always on and steady -
and so had to hard boot again.
Suspecting memory ... I rummaged around in bios and set all to do with
cpu and memory to "Auto." ...from then on it seems okay - Windows loads
and seems to work fine i.e. it's feels like Windows is OK.
Since then I've tweaked bios to mostly manual settings based on RAM SPD
(as chosen by bios 'auto' / cpu-z shows) "JEDEC #2" 5-5-5-18-24-2T
...and Windows continues to seem okay. Made a bootable cd with Memtest
on it, and ran it, and no errors were reported.
...So I suppose my question is, "If (higher spec.) memory degrades in
some way, such that after a few months it will no longer run reliably at
manufacturers guaranteed "over-spec." timings and voltage e.g. 4-4-4-12 @
2.000v but, then appears to be robust reducing it back to 5-5-5-18-24-2T
@ 1.8volts ...will that do ?
...or would it be best to throw it away and buy new memory, and never use
the higher spec. settings ?
TIA
regards, Richard
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