New RAM tested..

ok....so after tweaking around, i believe that i was able to get my machine running stable or close to it at 225 FSB... I ran Memtest86+ 1.26 for about 3 hours, 10 passes of standard and 3 passes of extended only. There was only one error in one of the test #6. Could that just be random or is the system still unstable? I had to raise the DDR voltage to 2.9 to achieve this.
Thanks .

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Originally posted by Viperx25
ok....so after tweaking around, i believe that i was able to get my machine running stable or close to it at 225 FSB... I ran Memtest86+ 1.26 for about 3 hours, 10 passes of standard and 3 passes of extended only. There was only one error in one of the test #6. Could that just be random or is the system still unstable? I had to raise the DDR voltage to 2.9 to achieve this.
Thanks .
Edit: Good news , The beast folds nicely now and it shaved 6 minutes off per frame on these 1301's .
Edit2:....ok meant to update the previous post..dunno what happened lol can't delete it....oh well .

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RAX: 0x0000000000000000, RBX: 0xffffff800d17f488, RCX: 0x0000000000000000, RDX: 0xffffff800a0bd430
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It may not have anything to do with the RAM, or it might.
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Was it installed properly?
How much did you install?
Make? vendor.
Try running with just the new RAM.
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panic(cpu 0 caller 0x2abf6a): Kernel trap at 0x00294cfa, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x00000004, CR3: 0x00100000, CR4: 0x00000660
EAX: 0x00000000, EBX: 0x09ece744, ECX: 0x00000000, EDX: 0x00000000
CR2: 0x00000004, EBP: 0x7c0fbcd8, ESI: 0x00000000, EDI: 0x09fce744
EFL: 0x00010246, EIP: 0x00294cfa, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x07ad0010
Error code: 0x00000002
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x7c0fb9d8 : 0x21b837 (0x5dd7fc 0x7c0fba0c 0x223ce1 0x0)
0x7c0fba28 : 0x2abf6a (0x59e3d0 0x294cfa 0xe 0x59e59a)
0x7c0fbb08 : 0x2a1a78 (0x7c0fbb20 0xd183cb0 0x7c0fbcd8 0x294cfa)
0x7c0fbb18 : 0x294cfa (0xe 0x70960048 0x10 0x10)
0x7c0fbcd8 : 0x29555c (0xd183cb0 0x5c800000 0x1 0x2a7d000)
0x7c0fbd48 : 0x2615b0 (0xd183cb0 0x59000000 0x1 0x61000000)
0x7c0fbe78 : 0x261b4b (0xffe00000 0x7fff 0x0 0x0)
0x7c0fbeb8 : 0x22ca96 (0x3193520 0x0 0x1 0xffe00000)
0x7c0fbf08 : 0x481892 (0xd1825dc 0x0 0x0 0xae)
0x7c0fbf58 : 0x4818c0 (0xd631540 0x0 0xd186514 0xd1864d0)
0x7c0fbf78 : 0x4f82fb (0xd631540 0xd18c068 0xd186514 0x7fff)
0x7c0fbfc8 : 0x2a251d (0xd18c064 0x0 0x10 0x0)
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: fsck_hfs
Mac OS version:
10K549
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBookPro5,1 (Mac-F42D86C8)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 6857967162
unloaded kexts:
(none)
loaded kexts:
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com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyEventDriver          201.6
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyboard          201.6
com.apple.driver.AppleIRController          303.8
com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient          2.6.8
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com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib          1.0.0d1
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage          1.6.4
com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI          4.7.3
com.apple.driver.AppleSmartBatteryManager          160.0.0
com.apple.driver.AirPortBrcm43xx          423.91.27
com.apple.driver.AirPortBrcm43224          428.42.4
com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort          2.1.7
com.apple.nvenet          2.0.17
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub          4.2.4
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI          4.2.4
com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM          1.4.0
com.apple.driver.AppleRTC          1.3.1
com.apple.driver.AppleHPET          1.5
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBOHCI          4.2.0
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons          1.3.6
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS          1.7
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC          1.3.6
com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC          1.4
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient          142.6.0
com.apple.security.sandbox          1
com.apple.security.quarantine          0
com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall          2.1.14
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement          142.6.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMultitouch          207.7
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com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite          3.9.0
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com.apple.iokit.IODVDStorageFamily          1.6
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com.apple.driver.XsanFilter          402.1
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Ram test

Because of problems I have been experienceing fora few months, with iPhoto 09 & iMovie 09, I am wondering whether there is a problem with my RAM cards. I have had them for about 3 years previously with no problem.
I have checked Permissions Verify and Disk Verify. OK. Wondering if there is an on-board test for memory, before I go out and buy new RAM cards.

TTBOMK there is no onboard test for RAM.
There is AHT which come on the install DVD for your Mac.
There is also Rember which you can download.
I have actually found Rember to be a better test then AHT.
Allan

Kernel Panics since new RAM has been installed.

Dear Apple Discussions forum members,
I have been getting random kernel panics for a little while now. I have suspected my new RAM to be the cause of such failures, but I want my theory to be verified by more knowledgeable individuals like you.
The first sign of a problem came from the "Rember" RAM testing application results :
+All tests passed!+
+Total built-in memory: 4 GB+
+Available memory: 3006 MB+
Is it normal that only 3006MB was allocated for testing while I installed 4GB?
I have seen some topics on a few forums talking about crashes occurring when the Merom Intel CPU allocated some memory to programs, memory reserved for hardware purposes, in the 3,25GB to 4GB range (not entirely sure about the numbers, though).
To support my request for help, I have a couple of kernel panics logs than I can share with you. Since these logs are usually very lengthy, I will only post one and if you ask for the rest, I will post them.
---- Start of log ----
Thu Jul 8 09:00:05 2010
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x2a8ab2): Kernel trap at 0x0028ce67, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x80010033, CR2: 0x80000050, CR3: 0x31709000, CR4: 0x000006e0
EAX: 0x00000000, EBX: 0x00280000, ECX: 0x80000000, EDX: 0x80000000
CR2: 0x80000050, EBP: 0x5b65a728, ESI: 0x00000001, EDI: 0x80000000
EFL: 0x00010246, EIP: 0x0028ce67, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x00000010
Error code: 0x00000000
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x5b65a518 : 0x21b455 (0x5cf328 0x5b65a54c 0x2238b1 0x0)
0x5b65a568 : 0x2a8ab2 (0x591664 0x28ce67 0xe 0x59182e)
0x5b65a648 : 0x29e9a8 (0x5b65a660 0x0 0x5b65a728 0x28ce67)
0x5b65a658 : 0x28ce67 (0xe 0x48 0x10 0x10)
0x5b65a728 : 0x28d03e (0x80000000 0x280000 0x1 0x1)
0x5b65a788 : 0x28e3ef (0x80000000 0x280000 0x1 0x5bf9f483)
0x5b65a7f8 : 0x290f40 (0x80000000 0x280000 0x1 0x0)
0x5b65a8a8 : 0x26b68e (0x512cd 0x0 0x512cd203 0x0)
0x5b65a948 : 0x2608b9 (0xaf2ea68 0x0 0x0 0x3000)
0x5b65aa78 : 0x260e89 (0x468d7000 0x0 0x1 0x0)
0x5b65aab8 : 0x259c63 (0x1771d74 0x468d4000 0x0 0x468d7000)
0x5b65aaf8 : 0x22027f (0x1771d74 0x468d4000 0x2220 0x5bf5249e)
0x5b65ab18 : 0x52acb5 (0x468d4000 0x2220 0x5b65ab78 0x0)
0x5b65ab38 : 0x5bf5cc91 (0x468d4000 0x2220 0x10000 0x1)
0x5b65ab78 : 0x5bf5f2f5 (0x46a2c000 0x5b65ae58 0x5b65ae40 0x5b65ae44)
0x5b65abf8 : 0x56237e (0x46a2c000 0x93f8f6c 0x5b65ae3c 0x28)
0x5b65ac38 : 0x5634c0 (0x5bfe0ec8 0x46a2c000 0x93f8f6c 0x28)
0x5b65ac88 : 0x563d41 (0x46a2c000 0xb 0x5b65acd0 0x0)
0x5b65ada8 : 0x284a7f (0x46a2c000 0xb 0x93f8f68 0x0)
0x5b65be58 : 0x21d7f7 (0x93f8f40 0x77ae5a0 0x1ecdd8 0x5733)
0x5b65be98 : 0x210983 (0x93f8f00 0x0 0x83590e0 0x894d620)
0x5b65bef8 : 0x216be6 (0x93f8f00 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x5b65bf78 : 0x293eb4 (0x7ffff88 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x5b65bfc8 : 0x29f48d (0x7ffff84 0x0 0x10 0x76b2ca0)
Kernel Extensions in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.GeForce(6.1.6)@0x5bf50000->0x5bffbfff
dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(6.1.6)@0x5c8b5000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.1)@0x5c403000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6)@0x55546000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.1)@0x5c44a000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: WindowServer
Mac OS version:
10F569
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 10.4.0: Fri Apr 23 18:28:53 PDT 2010; root:xnu-1504.7.4~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBookPro3,1 (Mac-F4238BC8)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 66483861004038
unloaded kexts:
(none)
loaded kexts:
foo.tun 1.0
foo.tap 1.0
com.parallels.kext.Pvsnet 3.0
com.parallels.kext.ConnectUSB 3.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor 1.9.3d0 - last loaded 30004193125
com.apple.filesystems.autofs 2.1.0
com.apple.driver.AppleTyMCEDriver 1.0.1d8
com.apple.driver.InternalModemSupport 2.6.2
com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC 1.4
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelYonahProfile 14
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPenrynProfile 17
com.apple.DontSteal_Mac_OSX 7.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient 3.3.2
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelNehalemProfile 11
com.apple.driver.AppleHDA 1.8.7f1
com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver 1.1.2
com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsControl 2.8.63
com.apple.GeForce 6.1.6
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com.apple.iokit.AppleYukon2 3.1.14b1
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com.apple.driver.AppleIntelMeromProfile 19
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com.apple.driver.AppleLPC 1.4.12
com.apple.driver.AppleBacklight 170.0.24
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTrackpad 1.8.1b1
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyEventDriver 1.8.1b1
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyboard 1.8.1b1
com.apple.driver.AppleIRController 303.8
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com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient 2.6.5
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage 1.6.2
com.apple.BootCache 31
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib 1.0.0d1
com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort 2.1.2
com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM 1.3.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub 4.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI 4.7.1
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI 4.0.2
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPIIXATA 2.5.1
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI 4.0.2
com.apple.driver.AppleRTC 1.3.1
com.apple.driver.AppleHPET 1.5
com.apple.driver.AppleSmartBatteryManager 160.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons 1.3.2
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS 1.6
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC 1.3.2
com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC 1.4
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient 105.10.0
com.apple.security.sandbox 0
com.apple.security.quarantine 0
com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall 2.1.11
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement 105.10.0
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileReadCounterAction 17
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileTimestampAction 10
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileThreadInfoAction 14
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileRegisterStateAction 10
com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothHIDKeyboard 1.2.0a3
com.apple.driver.IOBluetoothHIDDriver 2.3.3f8
com.apple.driver.AppleHIDKeyboard 1.2.0a3
com.apple.driver.AppleHDAPlatformDriver 1.8.7f1
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileKEventAction 10
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileCallstackAction 20
com.apple.iokit.IOSurface 74.0
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager 2.3.3f8
com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily 10.0.3
com.apple.driver.AppleHDAHardwareConfigDriver 1.8.7f1
com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib 1.8.7f1
com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily 1.7.6fc2
com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib 1.3
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP 2.0.3
com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family 311.1
com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily 1.9
com.apple.iokit.AppleProfileFamily 41
com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController 1.8.7f1
com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily 1.8.7f1
com.apple.driver.AppleSMC 3.0.1d2
com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily 4.1.2b1
com.apple.nvidia.nv50hal 6.1.6
com.apple.NVDAResman 6.1.6
com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport 2.1
com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily 2.1
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com.apple.driver.AppleUSBBluetoothHCIController 2.3.3f8
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily 2.3.3f8
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver 4.0.2
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub 4.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite 3.9.0
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIMultimediaCommandsDevice 2.6.5
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com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily 2.0.4
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com.apple.iokit.IOATAFamily 2.5.1
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily 4.0.2
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com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily 1.1
com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet 6
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com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily 2.6
com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily 1.3.0
--- End of log ---
I'm a little bit confused by all of this. Can anybody help? Thanks in advance, I am very grateful.

tjk wrote:
DBerG wrote:
Is it normal that only 3006MB was allocated for testing while I installed 4GB?
Yes, that's correct for early Meroms. You should list exactly which machine you have.
It sound like the RAM, especially if the crashes correspond exactly with adding the new RAM. The easy way to find out is to install the old/stock RAM.
Sorry if you don't understand french, the info is in the numbers anyway...
Informations matériel :
Nom du modèle : MacBook Pro
Identifiant du modèle : MacBookPro3,1
Nom du processeur : Intel Core 2 Duo
Vitesse du processeur : 2,4 GHz
Nombre de processeurs : 1
Nombre total de cœurs : 2
Cache de niveau 2 : 4 Mo
Mémoire : 4 Go
Vitesse du bus : 800 MHz
Version de la ROM de démarrage : MBP31.0070.B07
Version SMC (système) : 1.16f11
Numéro de série (système) : W8739JPZX92
Yes, removing the RAM and replacing it with my stock 2x1GB works : no more panics whatsoever.
Is that enough of an argument to ask for a replacement or an upgrade to branded memory?

MOVED: Best choice for new RAM on nForce SLI Platinum

This topic has been moved to Overclockers & Modding Corner.
Best choice for new RAM on nForce SLI Platinum

Quote from: dmostert on 06-April-05, 17:39:39
OK,
So it would then seem that going for the tighter PC3200 RAM is better that going for the more relaxed PC4000 RAM
It would also seem that the Corsair is a slightly better buy than the Kingston In general, which overclocks better Corsair or Kingston?
Thanks,
D.
Kingstone have a reputation for producing faster compatible memory to replace that found in HP, compaq's etc. Corsair do have a reputation for producing memory for overlockers. Note that dosn't mean memory which overlclocks, it means memory which overlockers can use to push the FSB harder and overlock the CPU.
This is really not a problem for AMD64 users. P4 systems have a poor memory peroformance, and hate running asych. You can push an AMD64 by running the memory asynch without noticing from my expericnace testing my system.
My current system is running at 305 FSB, 1/180 devisor for 275mhz. Everest benchmarks my latency at 43ns, read speed 7300mb/s, write speed 2800mb/s.

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