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Problems with upgrade

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kronik8

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I recently ordered 1 GB of PC3500 Mushkin Level II to tide me over until was ready to make the jump to either an Intel platform or the Socket 939s. In any event, I install the ram and a new fanbus to quiet down my Tornado. Now, all of a sudden, I'm having problems left and right with my video, and I saw the "Award BootBlock" for the first time ever.

Running Windows XP w/ SP1, and the system in my sig, + the ram.

Right now, I'm trying everything at stock settings, to see what happens. What bothers me most about this is that the RAM is supposed to be better than what I had installed already and now I can't pass memory tests at certain FSBs and obviously, VPU Recover is popping up every freaking time I try to load a game. Any ideas as to what could be causing these problems? It seems that if I try to run at 197 * 11.0x, which I've run at stably for months, it starts freaking out. Any suggestions? Should I RMA the sticks?

Also, I was running at 2-2-2-6 timings, just bumped these to 2.5-3-3-6.. which would totally defeat the purpose of me buying this RAM, in the process of testing stability now.
 
Well, it would appear that the new RAM can't run at the specs that my PC3200 Corsair CAS2 can? What the hell. I use only the new sticks, I get errors. I use all the sticks, I get errors. I take out the new sticks, and use only the old sticks: everything works. Could this just be a bad batch of RAM? Could they actually be using CH-5 sticks? I'm slightly perturbed right now.
 
Just for kicks.....did you clear cmos? I have run into problems when changing ram and not clearing it. That ram should run at those timings, I would be as pissed as you are. BTW, are those sticks matched or dual kit?
 
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