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Offline redsniper

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Right, the POST memory test doesn't report anything wrong and I haven't noticed any strange behavior in Windows even when running intense stuff life Oblivion and the Bioshock demo.

I'll try a BIOS update and report back after that.
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Offline redsniper

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Blargh, no BIOS update available. I did manage to turn off the alarm noise, though.

So what the heck, guys? Could I really have 2.4V (sometimes 2.3, sometimes 2.23) across my RAM or would things be flipping out by now? I'd hate to ignore this now, if it's a real problem, and have it bite me in the but later. :doubt:
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Offline Scuddie

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1.8 to 2.4, eh?  An overvoltage of 33%.  That's way more than enough to kill plenty of transistors in your memory modules.  If it was really that high, your system wouldn't even POST.

Does the BIOS hardware monitor report anything about the voltages?
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Offline CP5670

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2.2V is actually possible and people used to use it until they found that it sometimes causes long-term stability issues, but 2.4V is suicide run stuff. I doubt your memory would have lasted more than a few minutes if was really using that.

You may want to skim through this thread, which has several people using the same motherboard/memory combination. At least at a glance, I couldn't see any complaints about memory overvolting. There are some boards that are notorious for this, but the IP35 line doesn't appear be among them.
« Last Edit: August 22, 2007, 11:41:09 pm by CP5670 »

 

Offline redsniper

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Right, the thing is it isn't consistent with the voltages it reports. I can go to the hardware monitor in the BIOS and watch it jump from 2.4 to 2.23 to 2.37... I think something's screwy with the voltage monitoring hardware.
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Offline BloodEagle

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Right, the POST memory test doesn't report anything wrong and I haven't noticed any strange behavior in Windows even when running poorly coded stuff, like Oblivion.

Fixed.  ;7