F2-5400PHU2-2GBNT AND Gigabyte 965P DS3 Rev1

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The MB has a Intel Core 2, 6600 2.4ghz. Running Win 7 64bit. BIOS is updated to the last release, 11. Ram timing is stock at 5-5-5-15.

For months was getting the BSOD. Sometimes every couple of minutes. Tester PS, okay. Ran Memtest86+, passed. Even crashed with just Windows load, nothing else. Finally unplugged one of the two memory sticks and have not crashed since. About a week.

System is real slow, so I need to increase to at least 2G of memory. Is there some answer for this?

Thanks for the help.
Cliff

[Tradesman]

The latest BIOS appears to be F14, which can be found here:

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/pro...?pid=2314#bios

I'd try that first, then if it doesn't help, could try raising the NB voltage about .04 and/or raise the DRAM voltage .05

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Thanks Tradesman. Actually, the BIOS rev is 13 not 11, but I will update to 14. (I thought I checked that when updating drivers, but must have missed it.)

I assume you mean raise the MB and not NB voltage. In BIOS my System Voltage Control is set to Manual and is optimized by BIOS. Other choices are: PCI-E OverVoltage Control, FSB OverVoltage Control, (G)MCH OverVoltage Control and CPU Voltage Control. Since BIOS controls the System Voltage, would you change and others?

I intend to up the DDR2 OverVoltage Control some. I see I can take it up in stages of +.1v. CMOS setup blinks at +.5v so I assume that enters the critical areana.

Will come back when this have been accomplished with my report card.

Cliff

[Tradesman]

Believe ther should be a setting for NB (North Bridge chipset) voltage - though they may be calling it the
MCH OverVoltage Control - the NortBridge is the chipset containing the MC (Memory Controller)