4x1gb Vista Stability issues

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IrishChr1s

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Hi guys, i had a post over on the graphics section about increasing my performance in WoW, and one option was to get more ram

So i recieved my extra 2Gb of ram in the post a few days ago and ive started
to play around with Vista 64 bit edition.

System specs are

AMD X2 6000+
Asus M2N32 Sli Deluxe Wifi edition
850Watt Thermaltech Toughpower psu
BFG Geforce 8800 GTS 640Mb OC Edition
4x1Gb OCz Dual channel SLI ready memory sticks

Now my problem is, once i put the extra 2 sticks in the slots, my pc
would not boot at all, i took the 2 sticks out and walla! it booted fine.

So when i had the pc loaded i upgraded the Bios and reset the bios
to default settings

Now the pc loads fine, but im having serious stabililty issues
Things freezing, programs not installing or freezing, and Task manager
taking a lifetime to load.

Was it a bad install of Vista or am i going mad, its just program crash after
crash but no BSOD at all it seems to rectify itself after 1 min or so but these
lag spikes are doing my nut in.

Any ideas what the problem is?

Thanks guys
 
You'll most likely need to loosen the timings a bit and raise the voltage for the controller chipset and set the correct voltage for the ram (bios' normally undervolt).

I suggest looking into raising the chipset and the ram voltage then create a memtest boot disk/cd, leave it running overnight and see if you get any errors. If you do then relax the timings slightly and try again.

The things you are describing could be related to the ram, dodgy bios settings etc. If the pc has crashed theres a chance it could've corrupted some system files and what not (unlikely, but it does happen).
 
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Sweeney said:
You'll most likely need to loosen the timings a bit and raise the voltage for the controller chipset and set the correct voltage for the ram (bios' normally undervolt).

I suggest looking into raising the chipset and the ram voltage then create a memtest boot disk/cd, leave it running overnight and see if you get any errors. If you do then relax the timings slightly and try again.

The things you are describing could be related to the ram, dodgy bios settings etc. If the pc has crashed theres a chance it could've corrupted some system files and what not (unlikely, but it does happen).
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Dont mean to sound like a complete noob but is there any chance you could
show me via a screen shot or ect on how to increase the voltage?

im gonna do a clean install of vista now and then do memtest all nite and see
what happens

Ohh and ps

The system hasent crashed yet since the bios reset and upgrade, but ut just hangs on a lot of things such as driver installs ect
 
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Ram problems manifest themselves in weird and wonderful ways ;) Although it should function realtively fine on bios defaults, as its pretty much sets everything to be foolproof.

Don't have any screenshots for you :( but your motherboard manual *should* have the sections detailled in it.
 
i dont know what to do, its just getting worse, the Bios settings are at default, but everything freezes, like for 30 secs or more, and my graphics card
drivers just sit at 50% when im trying to install, even tho the program doesnt
say Not Responding it just sits there and does nothing

ill have a read through the manual now, ive taken 2 sticks out just to
get things installed
 
Yea its giving me non responding programs over and over
i did an AI *** boost thing in the bios to increase the voltage by 10% if needed
it seemed to work at the start but now im just getting errors and still non responding programs. this is after a clean install and up to date driver installs.
 
Have you taken out the extra 2 sticks to see if it still does it?

If not i'd give that a go, if its ok with those then id try with only the 2 new ones in, then again if that runs fine it narrows it down to bios settings/motherboard. Either that or you could memtest both sets seperately as well which would rule out corrupt OS install
 
Set to stock, then bump up the Northbridge voltage a bit, see what happens. Otherwise, send it back and get a 4gig kit. That's what I had to do in the end :(
 
Yep as others have said, bump up the NB or MCH voltage + 0.1, and you may also need to bump up the memory voltage a little bit to.
 
I found a frayed wire going into my graphics card, the 8pin to 6 pin converter that came with psu was kind of dodgy, im gonna try bumping up those voltages now and do another clean install.

Thanks for the replys, ill post back when i have sucess!
 
In the Advanced Voltage Menu these are the options i can change

CPU VCORE OFFSET VOLTAGE
DDR2 TERMINATION VOLTAGE
CPU to NB HT VOLTAGE
NB CORE / PCI-E VOLTAGE
SB CORE / PCI-E VOLTAGE
SB STANDBY CORE VOLTAGE

I put the CPU to NB HT VOLTAGE up from 1.2 to 1.225
is this correct?
 
When i have 2 sticks in things seem to work ok'ish, not the way they used to but a lot better than with 4 sticks

When I put the 2 stick or 4 sticks in, and enable SLI Memory in the bios,
once i leave the bios to restart no video signal is sent to the screen.

Any idea's what is causing this?

I have done 4 clean installs of 64bit vista, but as soon as some of the drivers are installed things just go haywire, or when 4 sticks are in nearly every program
hangs for 30+ secs then responds

No BSOD, but startup is long, and program stability is a joke

Any ideas


EDIT

Ok seems after reading a lot of Asus forums, the latest bios setting does not allow Sli ready memory option to be enabled, and thats the reason for the
non booting pc, and also the other vista problem can "supposedly" be fixed by an update that allows more than 2gb of memory to be used
 
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