Last year I was running a system with an
MSI AM3 motherboard,
AMD Phenom II X2,
2GB Corsair DDR3-1333,
EVGA 9800GTX+,
550Watt OCZ Power Supply,
running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit.
I upgraded the RAM in that system last summer to a GSKILL Ripjaw F3-10666CL9S-4GBRL DDR3 1333 4GB (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231310).
The jump from 2 to 4 GB greatly improved the speed of my system and everything was great. About 4 months ago my computer began freezing randomly and sporadically so I thought the motherboard or cpu were failing. I upgraded last month to an ASUS M5A97 AM3+ motherboard and an AMD FX8150 cpu but the problem still persisted. I then put back in my old Corsair 2gb stick of ram and the freezing stopped. This is when I thought maybe my GSKILL 4gb ram was faulty. I then purchased the exact same RAM but in an 8GB (2 x 4GB) kit (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231311) and hoped that would fix my problem. Those sticks both fail no matter if they are combined for 8GB, or if I only use 1 stick at a time. I'm pretty sure the odds of having 3 bad sticks of RAM are very slim, but I can not figure out why they are crashing.
I ran memtest v4 and all sticks passed. I tried to increase DRAM voltage and that did not work. It crashes on clean installs of Windows 7 64bit and Windows 8 Release Preview 64bit so I'm sure it's not a driver or virus problem. The freezing happens randomly but the only way I can duplicate it 100% of the time is to open maybe 50 tabs in chrome and close them all at once. My 2gb corsair stick handles this fine but each GSKILL stick crashes whenever this is attempted. The only pieces of hardware I haven't swapped out are my graphics card and PSU, but I don't think they could be the problem since the 2GB stick is fine. I have tried another hard drive and even a solid state drive. I read about manually adjusting the voltages and timings in the BIOS and have tried without success. There were many options I had no idea about though so maybe they need to be adjusted.
The system began crashing with nothing overclocked or overvolted so that should not be a problem either. (I currently have nothing overclocked or overvolted and it still crashes)
My mobo and gpu drivers are all up date, I'm not sure the versions numbers as I am currently away from my pc but if you need them I can get them for you. (Even though I don't think they are the problems because they worked fine with the 2gb stick.)
I also have a Rosewill wireless card so if you think that may be the issue I'll try running without it.
If you need any memory or error dumps I can probably get them up by tomorrow night so let me know!
If anyone has any idea about what settings to adjust I would be more than happy to try them.
Thanks!
-flyerofcows
MSI AM3 motherboard,
AMD Phenom II X2,
2GB Corsair DDR3-1333,
EVGA 9800GTX+,
550Watt OCZ Power Supply,
running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit.
I upgraded the RAM in that system last summer to a GSKILL Ripjaw F3-10666CL9S-4GBRL DDR3 1333 4GB (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231310).
The jump from 2 to 4 GB greatly improved the speed of my system and everything was great. About 4 months ago my computer began freezing randomly and sporadically so I thought the motherboard or cpu were failing. I upgraded last month to an ASUS M5A97 AM3+ motherboard and an AMD FX8150 cpu but the problem still persisted. I then put back in my old Corsair 2gb stick of ram and the freezing stopped. This is when I thought maybe my GSKILL 4gb ram was faulty. I then purchased the exact same RAM but in an 8GB (2 x 4GB) kit (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231311) and hoped that would fix my problem. Those sticks both fail no matter if they are combined for 8GB, or if I only use 1 stick at a time. I'm pretty sure the odds of having 3 bad sticks of RAM are very slim, but I can not figure out why they are crashing.
I ran memtest v4 and all sticks passed. I tried to increase DRAM voltage and that did not work. It crashes on clean installs of Windows 7 64bit and Windows 8 Release Preview 64bit so I'm sure it's not a driver or virus problem. The freezing happens randomly but the only way I can duplicate it 100% of the time is to open maybe 50 tabs in chrome and close them all at once. My 2gb corsair stick handles this fine but each GSKILL stick crashes whenever this is attempted. The only pieces of hardware I haven't swapped out are my graphics card and PSU, but I don't think they could be the problem since the 2GB stick is fine. I have tried another hard drive and even a solid state drive. I read about manually adjusting the voltages and timings in the BIOS and have tried without success. There were many options I had no idea about though so maybe they need to be adjusted.
The system began crashing with nothing overclocked or overvolted so that should not be a problem either. (I currently have nothing overclocked or overvolted and it still crashes)
My mobo and gpu drivers are all up date, I'm not sure the versions numbers as I am currently away from my pc but if you need them I can get them for you. (Even though I don't think they are the problems because they worked fine with the 2gb stick.)
I also have a Rosewill wireless card so if you think that may be the issue I'll try running without it.
If you need any memory or error dumps I can probably get them up by tomorrow night so let me know!
If anyone has any idea about what settings to adjust I would be more than happy to try them.
Thanks!
-flyerofcows
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