4th Kit Corrupt.

sandeep · 24 Dec 2009 at 19:20

Hi Guys,

I've been through four RMA's with OCUK with my Corsair Dominator ddr2 1066 4GB Ram.

Finally they sent a kit that started working as it should, memtest passed all tests and it was working great.

Until today where I started getting a random BSOD after just browsing the net, the BSOD directed to "MEMORY_MANAGEMENT" & "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NON_PAGED_AREA"

I immediately booted with memtest and ran the test, 6 minutes in I get memtest errors, I'm back to square one!

What shall I do??

sandeep · 24 Dec 2009 at 19:25

I've manually set the RAM at:

2.1v 5-5-5-15 1066Mhz, all default rated settings and still not going good.

sandeep · 24 Dec 2009 at 20:42

Yes I have my CPU oc'd to 3.7ghz, but I already have tried doing the test at stock speeds

sandeep · 24 Dec 2009 at 21:57

aastii said:
not to try and take traffic away, but have you asked on the Corsair forums? When I couldn't get my OCZ memory working, posted up on there and had it working fully stable within 2 days, that is from a system that wouldn't post, to then one that would crash and bsod

Yes I have gone to the corsair forums. They helped but nothing worked. They actually blamed my mobo n CPU

sandeep · 24 Dec 2009 at 22:47

aastii said:
it honestly wouldn't surprise me if they were right...I mean 4 fully tested (that is very rigorous corsair testing) matched pairs to be faulty and for atleast one of the pairs to be totally fine and pass 24 hours of memtest...to then go to crap? Sounds extremely unlikely to me.

If you have some memory that you know works absolutely fine, put that in there and see if that goes to pot too. If it does, you know the guys over at Corsair were right that it is your mobo (which I would suspect first) or CPU

I have some ocz reapers that work 100% on my mobo so I do blame the corsair. I migh just go to GSKILL or OCZ.

sandeep · 24 Dec 2009 at 23:31

Voxination said:
What mobo are you running these on mate? My Dominators throw up a fuss when run in Dual channel on my P5Q Deluxe, when in single channel they're happy as larry. The performance difference isn't noticeable at all.

Give single channel a go and see if it can stop your headaches.

I'm using an ASUS M3A79-T Deluxe, running the stick in dual channel with the black slots due to my Megahalems being in the way.

Something weird, I just disabled CnQ and C1E in the BIOS and I left my system Idle for over 2 hours and no BSOD, but memtest still throws errors, if I get another BSOD then I'll try it, it's quite a fuss to take my case out (Antec 1200) so I'll try the single channel later.

I might just sell this memory and get something else.

sandeep · 25 Dec 2009 at 10:32

Thanks fir the info but I'm just oc'g with the multi. No fan is being changed. It's only just the CPU.

sandeep · 25 Dec 2009 at 11:24

Oh right thanks for the info there. Seems like the same problems as me then. I was thinking about investing in the 6 core phenom or one of the new i7's or just a 920 D0.