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I recently set up a new build about two weeks ago with a GA-P55A-UD6 mobo, 4x2GB G.Skill Ripjaws CAS7 1.6v, core i7 860, Corsair hx650w PSU, ati 5870. Got some BSODs, ran memtest and it failed. However when i swapped around the ram chips I ran it again for 6 hours and it passed. The following day I ran it again without touching anything and it failed again shortly into the test. The failure addresses change when I swap them around but sometimes they stay within the same 2gb memory range. The error bit is the same for every memory error.
I've tried setting voltages manually: 1.2 for vcore, 1.3 for qpi and 1.64 for dram but doesnt seem to help. Sometimes the bios seems to reset the voltages and will give me a red warning screen in the MIT section saying there was a problem booting because of overclocking. I am not overclocking anything and the problem can happen even when running at stock memory timings and speed (cas9/1333). Also happens with just two ram sticks installed.
I am running the latest BIOS for the motherboard. The temperatures seem fine: the cpu temps were hitting max 50 degrees when running prime95 in max heat mode.
I have tried reseating everything and checked for bent pins on the CPU socket and didn't see any.
Are there any other secret settings/levels I should be setting in the BIOS or do I simply have a bad mobo/cpu/ram/psu (or all of the above!)? It was suggested that my PSU is not powerful enough but I think a new 650w psu is enough for those components.
I've tried setting voltages manually: 1.2 for vcore, 1.3 for qpi and 1.64 for dram but doesnt seem to help. Sometimes the bios seems to reset the voltages and will give me a red warning screen in the MIT section saying there was a problem booting because of overclocking. I am not overclocking anything and the problem can happen even when running at stock memory timings and speed (cas9/1333). Also happens with just two ram sticks installed.
I am running the latest BIOS for the motherboard. The temperatures seem fine: the cpu temps were hitting max 50 degrees when running prime95 in max heat mode.
I have tried reseating everything and checked for bent pins on the CPU socket and didn't see any.
Are there any other secret settings/levels I should be setting in the BIOS or do I simply have a bad mobo/cpu/ram/psu (or all of the above!)? It was suggested that my PSU is not powerful enough but I think a new 650w psu is enough for those components.
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