Hey guys,
Built a new PC roughly 6 months ago, and have been noticing blue screening and crashes becoming more frequent. I struggled to find out whether it was just Vista (though XP would do it also) or if it was faulty hardware.
Games would become unplayable with constant crashes and blue screens- and after gfx driver installations (or any other kind of system altering install) my windows would break and wouldn't boot at all without bluescreening. I figured I'd test to see if I had faulty ram (possibly explaining the faulty windows/crashes/game problems) - with my nforce 780i m/b forcing the ram to its proper clockspeed (ie 1066) memtest reported a slew of errors - and this was just in the first hour.
I changed the bios back to its default settings (800) and the crashing hasn't really occurred (haven't tried everything but memtest reported no errors at all).
The memtest results make me inclined to believe that I've got faulty ram - I plan on trying to isolate it to one stick, clocking back up to 1066 and seeing if memtest reports errors - but I was just wondering if this is sounding like my RAM is the culprit?
I'm running a Q9450 on a nforce 780i.
Cheers
Built a new PC roughly 6 months ago, and have been noticing blue screening and crashes becoming more frequent. I struggled to find out whether it was just Vista (though XP would do it also) or if it was faulty hardware.
Games would become unplayable with constant crashes and blue screens- and after gfx driver installations (or any other kind of system altering install) my windows would break and wouldn't boot at all without bluescreening. I figured I'd test to see if I had faulty ram (possibly explaining the faulty windows/crashes/game problems) - with my nforce 780i m/b forcing the ram to its proper clockspeed (ie 1066) memtest reported a slew of errors - and this was just in the first hour.
I changed the bios back to its default settings (800) and the crashing hasn't really occurred (haven't tried everything but memtest reported no errors at all).
The memtest results make me inclined to believe that I've got faulty ram - I plan on trying to isolate it to one stick, clocking back up to 1066 and seeing if memtest reports errors - but I was just wondering if this is sounding like my RAM is the culprit?
I'm running a Q9450 on a nforce 780i.
Cheers
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