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Just signed up to get some official feedback if possible.
I have a pair of 2x4GB ram sticks here, F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL and I have been using them on my new Ivy build for about a month and a half, but the ram itself has been purchased back in May.
Anyways, here is what happened. I've put the rig together a month and a half ago or so, been running smoothly with no issues.
However early this week I got my first Bsod. It was a IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error.
I looked into it and google pointed me at a RAM issue.
It was indeed a ram issue.
I can no longer boot into windows with both ram sticks plugged in.
I took one stick out to see if I can boot with one, and yes I could. Then I swapped them around (unplugged the first one and plugged the second one in its place) and again I could boot. But as soon as I had both sticks in, I would get a bsod 2 seconds into windows loading screen.
First thing I did was to run memtest, and that night one of the sticks returned around 20k errors in the first few minutes. Second stick was fine that night.
Some users on another forum I'm a member of said it could also be a motherboard issue, luckily it is not.
Today I have borrowed my housemates ram stick. His ram sticks are exactly same model, same MHz speeds and same timings except the sticks are 4x2GB.
Tried 2 of his ram sticks in my PC in dual channel, worked fine. Tried all 4 of his ram sticks in my PC, also worked fine.
I've been to the shop where I got my ram from and explained what happened first (I tested my housemates ram sticks a few days later after I visited the shop, so only told them about memtest results and whats going on generally) and they said to leave the sticks with them for testing or better yet, bring the whole PC for testing. Haven't done that yet as I wanted to try my housemates ram sticks first (which I have done now).
They also told me that if the ram sticks turned out to be faulty they would send them back to you guys for further testing etc, and that it would take between 2 to 8 weeks.
Firstly, I cannot wait that long for a replacement as I don't have any other spare ram to use while I wait.
Secondly, I'd love some feedback from here and maybe a confirmation that my ram stick could indeed be faulty.
I should also mention that the bsod I got happened during a gameplay of Arma2/Dayz. Was happily playing the game and out of nowhere my PC bsod'ed. Firs bsod on this setup ever.
Everything is up to date. All drivers and bios.
Specs:
Mobo - AsRock Z77 Fatal1ty Professional (bios v1.30)
CPU - i5 3570k @ stock speeds
Ram - F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL DDR3 1600
Windows 7 Pro x64
Hope I explained everything well.
Cheers.
Just signed up to get some official feedback if possible.
I have a pair of 2x4GB ram sticks here, F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL and I have been using them on my new Ivy build for about a month and a half, but the ram itself has been purchased back in May.
Anyways, here is what happened. I've put the rig together a month and a half ago or so, been running smoothly with no issues.
However early this week I got my first Bsod. It was a IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error.
I looked into it and google pointed me at a RAM issue.
It was indeed a ram issue.
I can no longer boot into windows with both ram sticks plugged in.
I took one stick out to see if I can boot with one, and yes I could. Then I swapped them around (unplugged the first one and plugged the second one in its place) and again I could boot. But as soon as I had both sticks in, I would get a bsod 2 seconds into windows loading screen.
First thing I did was to run memtest, and that night one of the sticks returned around 20k errors in the first few minutes. Second stick was fine that night.
Some users on another forum I'm a member of said it could also be a motherboard issue, luckily it is not.
Today I have borrowed my housemates ram stick. His ram sticks are exactly same model, same MHz speeds and same timings except the sticks are 4x2GB.
Tried 2 of his ram sticks in my PC in dual channel, worked fine. Tried all 4 of his ram sticks in my PC, also worked fine.
I've been to the shop where I got my ram from and explained what happened first (I tested my housemates ram sticks a few days later after I visited the shop, so only told them about memtest results and whats going on generally) and they said to leave the sticks with them for testing or better yet, bring the whole PC for testing. Haven't done that yet as I wanted to try my housemates ram sticks first (which I have done now).
They also told me that if the ram sticks turned out to be faulty they would send them back to you guys for further testing etc, and that it would take between 2 to 8 weeks.
Firstly, I cannot wait that long for a replacement as I don't have any other spare ram to use while I wait.
Secondly, I'd love some feedback from here and maybe a confirmation that my ram stick could indeed be faulty.
I should also mention that the bsod I got happened during a gameplay of Arma2/Dayz. Was happily playing the game and out of nowhere my PC bsod'ed. Firs bsod on this setup ever.
Everything is up to date. All drivers and bios.
Specs:
Mobo - AsRock Z77 Fatal1ty Professional (bios v1.30)
CPU - i5 3570k @ stock speeds
Ram - F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL DDR3 1600
Windows 7 Pro x64
Hope I explained everything well.
Cheers.
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