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    Damn Ram !

    Im sick of this RAM i bought with my new K7N2 Delta-ILSR. As i said before its Corsair value Select, and apparenty Corsair have said that their ram doesn't 'work that well' with the MSI Nforce 2 board.
    In other words you get bombarded with beeping 50% of the time you power it on, seems to happen particularly when you save to CMOS. Anyway, i have tried running just one stick, that seems to stop it happening a bit, but it still happens, and anyway, i want dual channel, and both sticks .
    To rub it in, i just looked at the chips on the Sticks and they are Samsung ! Corsair and samsung must be two of the 2 top makes, and I can't have decent RAM .

    Anyway, rant off , anyone got any suggestions ? Anytihng before i finnaly try and get rid of it and get my self some new stuff.

    At the moment the Ram is definitely fine, ran memtest, as i said i have tried single sticks, i have swapped em around, i have changed ram timings (not excessively, dont like screwing with things, but it didnt seemt to help) Anyone got any more ideas ?
    I was going to try and just live with the beeps, its not terrible have to reboot a few times when i first power ont he computer, but i have been getting a few BSODS from it, and one just plain freeze. They are Single sided sticks if that helps.

    thanks for any advice
    Desktop: AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton, 1024Mb PC-3200 TwinMOS w/Winbond, MSI K7N2 Delta-ILSR, Radeon 9800SE AIW, 40 GB 7,200 Rpm Hitachi Deskstar, 120GB 7,200 Rpm 8mb Cache Maxtor Diamond 9, 160GB 7200 Rpm 8mb Cache Seagate 7200.7 SATA, Plextor 708A 8x DVD-RW, 550W PFC Q-tec PSU, Casetek 1019SM Silver Case, Camdridge Soundworks DTT2200 Speakers

    Laptop: Clevo D470W - 17" Widescreen TFT, Intel Pentium4 3.06Ghz 533FSB, 1024Mb PC-2700 Hynix, Radeon Mobility 9000 64Mb, Fujitsu 80Gb 4,200rpm, 250Gb 7,2000rpm 8mb Cache Maxtor OneTouch, Toshiba SD-R6372 DVD-RW +/- x4, Built-in Four speakers, webcam and microphone

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    Flog it, mention the problems, and recomend MSI Nforce2 board owners need not apply.

    Get some decent price for them, go get some crucial... sorted.

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    Get your BIOS updated.
    It also effected the NF7 series of mobo's, but Abit sorted it out with a BIOS update
    Hopfully MSI have aswell
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    And by trying to force me to like small pants, they've alienated me.

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    forgot to mention i updated the bios too
    was the problem with corsair in particular ?
    Desktop: AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton, 1024Mb PC-3200 TwinMOS w/Winbond, MSI K7N2 Delta-ILSR, Radeon 9800SE AIW, 40 GB 7,200 Rpm Hitachi Deskstar, 120GB 7,200 Rpm 8mb Cache Maxtor Diamond 9, 160GB 7200 Rpm 8mb Cache Seagate 7200.7 SATA, Plextor 708A 8x DVD-RW, 550W PFC Q-tec PSU, Casetek 1019SM Silver Case, Camdridge Soundworks DTT2200 Speakers

    Laptop: Clevo D470W - 17" Widescreen TFT, Intel Pentium4 3.06Ghz 533FSB, 1024Mb PC-2700 Hynix, Radeon Mobility 9000 64Mb, Fujitsu 80Gb 4,200rpm, 250Gb 7,2000rpm 8mb Cache Maxtor OneTouch, Toshiba SD-R6372 DVD-RW +/- x4, Built-in Four speakers, webcam and microphone

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    Have you not played with the ram timings?

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    yes, as i said above , but what RAM timing is most likely to help ? Is it just raising all the numbers ? So it basicly hasn't got as much of a demand on it ? Or is it just that particular timing settings may cause freak problems between certain Ram and boards ? But, yes i have tried this, i cant really think of anything else to do, im gonna try and borrow a stick of generic PC-2100 and see if i get the same prob with that (just to make the mobo is ok), but i have tried everything i can think of.
    Desktop: AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton, 1024Mb PC-3200 TwinMOS w/Winbond, MSI K7N2 Delta-ILSR, Radeon 9800SE AIW, 40 GB 7,200 Rpm Hitachi Deskstar, 120GB 7,200 Rpm 8mb Cache Maxtor Diamond 9, 160GB 7200 Rpm 8mb Cache Seagate 7200.7 SATA, Plextor 708A 8x DVD-RW, 550W PFC Q-tec PSU, Casetek 1019SM Silver Case, Camdridge Soundworks DTT2200 Speakers

    Laptop: Clevo D470W - 17" Widescreen TFT, Intel Pentium4 3.06Ghz 533FSB, 1024Mb PC-2700 Hynix, Radeon Mobility 9000 64Mb, Fujitsu 80Gb 4,200rpm, 250Gb 7,2000rpm 8mb Cache Maxtor OneTouch, Toshiba SD-R6372 DVD-RW +/- x4, Built-in Four speakers, webcam and microphone

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    doh, missed that. Sorry. Ditch either the sticks or the board. Sticks are worth more than the boar, so rma that if you can imho.

    I'm not a big fan of MSI. They very rarely produce anything worth an enthusiasts 2nd glance.

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    this will probably sound stupid, but even though i have used it before my self, i dont know what RMA stand for, anyone ? And do you think www.scan.co.uk will charge a restocking fee ? And also whats imho stand for ? Never seen it before i came to these forums

    oh and the 2 sticks of RAM only came to just under £64 actualy, and the mobo was £88
    Desktop: AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton, 1024Mb PC-3200 TwinMOS w/Winbond, MSI K7N2 Delta-ILSR, Radeon 9800SE AIW, 40 GB 7,200 Rpm Hitachi Deskstar, 120GB 7,200 Rpm 8mb Cache Maxtor Diamond 9, 160GB 7200 Rpm 8mb Cache Seagate 7200.7 SATA, Plextor 708A 8x DVD-RW, 550W PFC Q-tec PSU, Casetek 1019SM Silver Case, Camdridge Soundworks DTT2200 Speakers

    Laptop: Clevo D470W - 17" Widescreen TFT, Intel Pentium4 3.06Ghz 533FSB, 1024Mb PC-2700 Hynix, Radeon Mobility 9000 64Mb, Fujitsu 80Gb 4,200rpm, 250Gb 7,2000rpm 8mb Cache Maxtor OneTouch, Toshiba SD-R6372 DVD-RW +/- x4, Built-in Four speakers, webcam and microphone

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    imho - In my humble opinion. (don't like imho think imo is better usually as the persons opinion and mine isn't humble

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    and RMA ? what does that stand for ? thanks, imho, to me, always meant, 'I mean, hold on'
    Desktop: AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton, 1024Mb PC-3200 TwinMOS w/Winbond, MSI K7N2 Delta-ILSR, Radeon 9800SE AIW, 40 GB 7,200 Rpm Hitachi Deskstar, 120GB 7,200 Rpm 8mb Cache Maxtor Diamond 9, 160GB 7200 Rpm 8mb Cache Seagate 7200.7 SATA, Plextor 708A 8x DVD-RW, 550W PFC Q-tec PSU, Casetek 1019SM Silver Case, Camdridge Soundworks DTT2200 Speakers

    Laptop: Clevo D470W - 17" Widescreen TFT, Intel Pentium4 3.06Ghz 533FSB, 1024Mb PC-2700 Hynix, Radeon Mobility 9000 64Mb, Fujitsu 80Gb 4,200rpm, 250Gb 7,2000rpm 8mb Cache Maxtor OneTouch, Toshiba SD-R6372 DVD-RW +/- x4, Built-in Four speakers, webcam and microphone

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    RMA = Return Merchandise Authorization

    It's the number that must be on the outside of boxes being returned to indicate that the manufacturer or retailer has agreed to take the item back.

    Items sent w/o this number are generally refused as anything the company takes back they have "some" liability to actually return. It's easier to just reject packages with no RMA #

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    Imho has been used for that long on the net that its become a word in its own right. Imo just looks wrong and cant be used as flexibally - see my use of imho above doesnt quite match the meaning of 'in my humble opinion' in the context of the sentence. Most usent posters generally come across arrogantly when using imo instead. Usually deliberately. But you dont have to be humble when using imho, uriah heap style either. Its one of my favorite net words and I long for the day I can speak it verbally.

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