I'm running XMS3200C2 memory (2-3-3-T1) on a SF51 Shuttle mobo. The drive is a WD1200JB which is the special edition one.
My initial problem was that Windows XP kept writing corrupt data on the drive, and at every restart Checkdisk would run and complain about a bunch of things. After some troubleshooting I found out that lowering the memory's frenquency and timings apparently fixes the problem. I'm currently running it at 133mhz with CAS 2.0 and T1. The latencies are set to "Normal" in the bios (there are 6 options Normal being the second lowest one).
The memory I'm sure can run a lot faster, at least it is supposed to. So either the RAM is bad or there is something else that I suspect may be causing this.
I built this system recently and I still don't have a video card (still deciding), so I'm just using the onboard video which is Integrated SiS651 VGA. So I'm sharing the system memory with the integrated video. I already found out that this is degrading the memory's performance a lot (Sandra reports some low numbers), but I'm not sure if this would affect the memory and things like data integrity. Does anyone know if sharing stresses the memory a lot? I'm not sure what's causing data corruption but this looks like a possiblity.
If anyone can help or have a suggestion I'll appreciate it.
My initial problem was that Windows XP kept writing corrupt data on the drive, and at every restart Checkdisk would run and complain about a bunch of things. After some troubleshooting I found out that lowering the memory's frenquency and timings apparently fixes the problem. I'm currently running it at 133mhz with CAS 2.0 and T1. The latencies are set to "Normal" in the bios (there are 6 options Normal being the second lowest one).
The memory I'm sure can run a lot faster, at least it is supposed to. So either the RAM is bad or there is something else that I suspect may be causing this.
I built this system recently and I still don't have a video card (still deciding), so I'm just using the onboard video which is Integrated SiS651 VGA. So I'm sharing the system memory with the integrated video. I already found out that this is degrading the memory's performance a lot (Sandra reports some low numbers), but I'm not sure if this would affect the memory and things like data integrity. Does anyone know if sharing stresses the memory a lot? I'm not sure what's causing data corruption but this looks like a possiblity.
If anyone can help or have a suggestion I'll appreciate it.