2 sticks of Ram = BSOD?

[Aod]

i rebuilt be PC today, tested it, and it was working just fine.
carried it upstairs, plugged it in again, and upon turning it on, windows bluescreened with a PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA code.

so, i tested the ram with memtest, which came up with no errors.
i also tried each stick of ram in the PC independantly, both worked fine, and i even ran P95 in the ram with no errors.

i've put the ram in non-Dual channel slots and it still bluescreened.
i also disabled BIOS caching and shadowing, to no avail.

any idea as to what the problem might be?

i can provide Specs if you need.

 

[Minstadave]

i rebuilt be PC today, tested it, and it was working just fine.
carried it upstairs, plugged it in again, and upon turning it on, windows bluescreened with a PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA code.

so, i tested the ram with memtest, which came up with no errors.
i also tried each stick of ram in the PC independantly, both worked fine, and i even ran P95 in the ram with no errors.

i've put the ram in non-Dual channel slots and it still bluescreened.
i also disabled BIOS caching and shadowing, to no avail.

any idea as to what the problem might be?

i can provide Specs if you need.

Have you tried manually setting the timings in the BIOS to pretty slack settings?

What motherboard have you got?

 

[Darkwave]

Did you try it downstairs again? Unlikely as it may seem, faulty electrics can be a pain in the bum.

 

[Aod]

Have you tried manually setting the timings in the BIOS to pretty slack settings?

What motherboard have you got?

its Geil Bluevalue ram, so it's pretty slack anyway.
i'll try it just to make sure.

i'll try it downstairs aswell.

i've always suspected the wiring in my room to be dodgy.

 

[Minstadave]

its Geil Bluevalue ram, so it's pretty slack anyway.
i'll try it just to make sure.

i'll try it downstairs aswell.

i've always suspected the wiring in my room to be dodgy.

Whats your motherboard? Switching to 2T may help. As would loading your failsafe defaults in the BIOS.

 

[Aod]

its an MSI 865PE Neo 2 Platinum.

i set the ram from 2.5,3,3,6 (default) to 3,4,4,8 and it works now.
the voltage was left at the default 2.6
why shouldn't it run the SPD timings?

 

[Minstadave]

its an MSI 865PE Neo 2 Platinum.

i set the ram from 2.5,3,3,6 (default) to 3,4,4,8 and it works now.
the voltage was left at the default 2.6
why shouldn't it run the SPD timings?

Probably needs a little more VDimm

 

[Aod]

i put the ram back into dual channel and it BSODd again at the new timings.

what should i increase the Vdimm to?

 

[Minstadave]

i put the ram back into dual channel and it BSODd again at the new timings.

what should i increase the Vdimm to?

Try 2.8V, and changing CPC to off (or whatever it is to change from 1T to 2T on your board).

 

[Aod]

CPC?

in the Timing settings menu, theres just CAS, RAS, RAS --> CAS, Precharge delay and Burst length.

i bumped the Vdimm to 2.75 and it hasn't crashed sofar

<edit> still not crashed.

i think we've hit a winner.