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| Thread ID: 25581 | 2002-10-07 07:47:00 | bump up ram voltage safe? | loser (538) | Press F1 |
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| 86799 | 2002-10-07 07:47:00 | is it safe to bump up the ram voltage. in my bios i've got the option "ddr voltage" (oh-- i just though, this is for the ram right??) and the settings are normal, 2.73 or 2.83 currently is set to normal. I have 1 256 meg stick, and windows crashes on every cold boot. when i limit it in msconfig to 196 meg of ram i get no crash. i was thinking maybe bumping the voltage up might help?? just for testing purposes anyway. would it be safe to set it up to 2.83? then if that's fine, down to 2.73 and test that? remembering I have no system fan, only a cpu fan, but i can set my heater to "fan only" and point that bad boy into the tower... :D one big system fan like... can you tell me if it is safe to increase the voltage anyway please? also, whats the best burn in test you know of for ram? thanks y'all (i can feel this is a question that tweak'e and graham might know a bit about, and JM maybe...) |
loser (538) | ||
| 86800 | 2002-10-07 07:50:00 | Someones opinion is: Your RAM will likely operate fine for a while at 3.0V, but I guarantee that will shorten the lifespan of your memory. Default for DDR memory is 2.5V. Practically, I wouldn't run it at anything more than 2.7V (maybe 2.8V if you have some sort of supplemental cooling). Like I said, it *can* run with more voltage than that, but you risk long-term damage. I would stick to 2.7V or under. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 86801 | 2002-10-07 08:03:00 | Crashing on cold-boot? Sounds like a faulty Ram stick to me. Can you try another stick of ram? that would prove it. i don't think boosting the voltage will help except shorten the life of your ram. The answer is ~42~ |
~42~ (2034) | ||
| 86802 | 2002-10-07 08:10:00 | Loser, You basically answered your own question and ~42~ also pointed it out. You have a faulty stick of RAM (as you said you lowered your ram in msconfig by approx 64MB). removed ram a stick at a time to find the one giving the problem. Babe. |
Babe Ruth (416) | ||
| 86803 | 2002-10-07 08:10:00 | unless you are overclocking the ram (check the ram timing) its pointless uping the voltage. | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 86804 | 2002-10-07 09:24:00 | the thing is, why ONLY on cold boots? When I reboot it's about as stable as a brick ****house, it ONLY crashes on a cold boot, and I'm sure that when my supplier last had it in he checked the ram as he as troubleshooting another problem... | loser (538) | ||
| 86805 | 2002-10-07 09:31:00 | what sort of video card do you have? i have heard of a certain video card causeing similar problems. | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 86806 | 2002-10-07 10:14:00 | name the sort of video card. i have nvidia geforce2 mx200 64mb |
loser (538) | ||
| 86807 | 2002-10-10 21:33:00 | Loser I would be keen to know if you find the answer to your cold startup crash cos I have the same issue on my AMD1.4/256MB RAM/GeForce2MX 32MB Ram/Win2K. All was working fine for a year and then it suddenly refuse to start up from cold. Have to reset after a minute of so after PC has warmed up. After that its fine. I suspected a micro fracture on my board somewhere. | nzStan (440) | ||
| 86808 | 2002-10-10 22:06:00 | Oh that crazy, fauty RAM. I'm still waiting on a replacement for my 256MB stick... In the meantime, try testing your system with a RAM diagnostic program. We have one here at work that takes quite some time to thoroughly test for errors, and I started a thread about free solutions earlier this week. Or was that late last week? Search for 'Funky RAM' in this board and you should find the topic. :D |
Jemy_X (2081) | ||
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