bad ram?

Zairs · 1 Sep 2014 at 19:38

Have some issues with my pc, had several blue screens, lots of freezing, and screen artifacts (full screen constant, sometimes goes when on another window/program).
tries rimming the windows ram checker and it froze at about 14%. Also tried mem 86, all I got was numbers going down left of screen

wazza300 · 1 Sep 2014 at 19:58

how much vtt in the bios are you using?

how many ram sticks? 2x 2gb or one single 4gb stick? if two sticks try with just one at a time just to see if one is faulty ect

Zairs · 1 Sep 2014 at 20:00

Changed everything back to default settings,
no overclock on cpu or ram.
2 x 4gb ram

wazza300 · 1 Sep 2014 at 20:02

and it freezes at stock in memtest86?

just set the dram voltage according to the ram,you might need bit more vtt(memory controller) voltage even at stock

but there should be 0 errors in memtest

Zairs · 1 Sep 2014 at 20:07

Doesn't do it often, will be fine for a whole, then have a bad run then is fine again

Zairs · 1 Sep 2014 at 20:07

Didn't run mem test properly, didn't work

wazza300 · 1 Sep 2014 at 20:09

how much vtt were you using at stock/oc

it could be that not enough

Memtest86+ v5.01 http://www.memtest.org/download/5.01/memtest86+-5.01.iso.zip

burn it to a cd and boot from it,use imgburn to burn it

Zairs · 1 Sep 2014 at 20:29

How long should the loading screen take?

Zairs · 1 Sep 2014 at 20:35

Just freezes on the loading page, will try the windows one again

wazza300 · 1 Sep 2014 at 20:43

should load right up

try with only one ram stick at a time

Zairs · 1 Sep 2014 at 20:52

Wouldn't boot with one of the ram sticks
Or the other one, red light is on near ram and I've tried reseting it with the button too

wazza300 · 1 Sep 2014 at 20:53

seems like you have a faulty stick,now test the faulty stick in the other slots,and repeat the test with the good working stick

just to rule out faulty ram slot

Zairs · 1 Sep 2014 at 21:01

Tried moving to another slot and still won't boot with either stick

wazza300 · 1 Sep 2014 at 21:03

pretty sure it should boot from any slot with just one ram stick

try the colour coded ones second slot and fourth slot from cpu socket to front of case (test each of those one at a time)

Zairs · 1 Sep 2014 at 21:04

I used the coloured ones ill try the other ones

Zairs · 1 Sep 2014 at 21:25

Nothing now, just a red light on the ram, tried all combinations and won't do anything now

wazza300 · 2 Sep 2014 at 01:13

try a quarter turn undone on each mounting screw for the d14 cpu cooler

too tight a cooler can cause memory trouble

Zairs · 3 Sep 2014 at 09:07

Got it working again, not sure how. Took the mb off and loosened it like you said, out it all back together and it didn't work, then tried the other two slots, still nothing so I tried just one and it worked, so tried the other and it worked, tried them both together and it worked. Ran mem 86 and it passed. So its fixed I hope, will have to wait and see