CPU/Mobo Is this a PSU problem?

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if you tried with 3-4-4-8 timings, all i can say is its your ram causing havoc with your system files, give back your new ram, next time try to get identical rams.

it is not a psu but ram incompatiblity issue as pointed by deejay & me :(

p.s. - use only one ram now, everytime you try both rams you will end up corrupting your system files.
 
Darned. I will talk to the guy, but I doubt he will give me a refund... even though I am a regular customer of his... I will see. Maybe I can exchange it for something else, though at the moment I do not need anything else (except maybe a PSU)
 
@ KK,
A similar problem was being faced by an avid gamer member of TE (he is in the top 5 (India) for NFS). although his problem was more severe. he spent last 5 days troubleshooting it. the problem as expected was in the rams. (my hunch is the rams he received were remarked Hynix D43 modules, actually rated for 266 / 333 mhz operations but remarked / restamped for 400 mhz operation). the m/c would boot and load windows xp easily (at my place, earlier xp would not install even at his place)but any file decompression operations would give file corruption errors etc....
when i tested the rams on memtest, (Default speeds) it gave about 40,000 errors while still in test4 (it started erroring from test 2 itself)....
got the rams changed to a much better quality rams by paying Rs.165/- per module extra and these new modules (hynix D43) rock. at default speed of 200 mhz @ 2.5-3-3-7memtest passed with zero errors.
He returned a Very Happy and Satisfied Gamer .....

So if possible ask ur contact person you want a better quality ram and mention you are willing to pay a few rupees extra for it.......(This option is worth a try ....)
 
OK, I will ask him to source some Mercury RAM for me (I think it is single sided)... the problem is the damned single sided requirement imposed on me due to socket 754 (if the second stick is not single sided speeds will be DDR333 instead of DDR400). Otherwise I would neverhave picked up that piece of s*** in the first place.
 
^^Did you try using a divider? See if 266 solves the problem. Then its just bad ram. The DDR333 is a non issue as well. I'm running DDR 400 with 2 1GB dual sided sticks. All that is needed is that your board must support it properly. My DFI defaulted to DDR400 1T with the two dual sided dimms.
 
Yeah, but I have an old motherboard, which probably will not support it (gigabyte later issued BIOS updates for some models but not mine). And I can't set a divider in my BIOS, at any rate, there is no setting for anything like that..

Well I talked to him, he said he would get me some twinmos RAM by monday or so..

Ihave used twinmos in my laptop and it is good... I have heard good stuff about twinmos, so tell me, is that likely to be compatible, as the timings will (probably) be more similar to the Transcend 3-3-3-8 that I have (I have run it stably for 2 years at 3-3-3-7, and alsofor a little while at 2.5-3-3-7).
 
My Transcend memory is rated and working fine at 2.5-3-3-7 since more then a year and half. Change your hardware dealer ASAP, the fake transcend floating in the market were CAS 3.0 latencies.
 
No...

the transcend (old) was really 3-3-3-8... and I bought it from elsewhere. This new stuff is Dynet, and I bought it from this other guy, who I have bought other good stuff from.

Basically, it is just a case of cheap RAM being incompatible.
 
Simple - I have no way of getting around it.

All points except the heavy duty ones are on a single phase supported by the inverter. The ACs, fridge etc are on the other two phases. The only point available for the PC (UPS actually) is one which comes through the inverter. Change is not possible except by rewiring the whole damn house.
 
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