GEIL Memory problem

Swissnic · Post by **Swissnic** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 8:26 am

Hi Chaps,

I am sorry to say that today, I discovered a problem with the memory on one of my machines. My oc'd Athlon64 was running with some extremely fast GEIL PC533 CAS2-2-2-5 Memory (very aggressive). It now seems to be crashing a lot, and SAP work units keep failing. Memory burn-in tests revealed a problem with one of the banks.

I have suspended activity on this machine for now, and just ordered a couple of gig of crucial CAS3 memory for it (same as I run in all my other machines).

I just wanted to apologise for the low scores for the next couple of days.

Cheers, Nic.

UBT - Halifax-lad · Post by **UBT - Halifax-lad** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 8:30 am

Never mind at least you can get up and running again soon

UBT - JohnR · Post by **UBT - JohnR** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 6:20 pm

Have the same kind of problem with loss of credits. Just upgraded my
AMD64 3000 to an AMD X2 4200 :) but the 1GB is having a few problems running 2 SAP wu at the same time. I think it needs 2GB, which means I have a processor and 1GB of good memory spare. Seems I also need a cheap motherboard with built in video and a case. That will give me a rac over 1000 as well. Have you seen the 4 monsters in Team -TNT - Me too! is putting in 3000 credits a day from Antarctica? He must be melting a hole in the ice with all those processors. :shock: LOL

gregoryw · Post by **gregoryw** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 10:04 pm

I should be receiving another 0.5GB of memory for one of my older machines running CPDN SA tomorrow. Hopefully that should alleviate a bit of paging on this machine and hence increase its contribution a bit.

Unfortunately the machine takes RIMMs, so memory is still really expensive for it. That's a mistake I won't make again.

Swissnic · Post by **Swissnic** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 9:12 am

Well I got my 2Gb installed now, but the timings are a lot looser... 3-3-3-8, so I had to drop my FSB back down to 200mhz...

Means i'm running a stock 4000+ again... Oh well, as long as it's stable right!

jaysback · Post by **jaysback** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 10:58 pm

could you not run the memory on a devider and keep some sort of o/c going?

UBT - JohnR · Post by **UBT - JohnR** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 9:37 am

My Athlon has crashed about 5 times in last 2 days, RAC down to 169 on the computer. Don't know the problem yet so I'm running on a different install of windows, sorry for the drop in credits on the machine, will try to catch up when 2GB installed. Glad to see Team-TNT split, their big cruncher has gone (down a hole in the ice LOL)

gregoryw · Post by **gregoryw** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 6:41 pm

Yes, I also notice that the team "U.S.Air Force" has contributed 29,448 credits today! I'm pretty confident that that's a one off, though!

http://www.boincstats.com/stats/team_gr ... =sap&id=73