Blue Screening during games

avrc · 21 Aug 2009 at 19:41

Arrgh it's just restarted during web browsing and now won't POST again. Going to have to buy a new board by the looks of it.

D D Danneh · 21 Aug 2009 at 19:53

I'd still say it was the RAM. If it runs fine with your other set, I can't see any reason why it would be the motherboard. You don't often get incompatibility issues with RAM, and if it was that, it wouldn't work at all.

I'd RMA the RAM, and if the replacement doesn't work, then send the board back.

avrc · 21 Aug 2009 at 20:58

Well right now it won't POST. The graphics card POSTS but that's it, plain black screen after that, If I keep trying it will semi POST but then hangs randomly either after CPU detect or detecting HDD's. RAM wouldn't cause that would it? Working on the basis the board is fubared for now, whether the RAM is as well I don't know. Will pop up to Overclockers tomorrow and return this one and buy another one.

avrc · 21 Aug 2009 at 21:42

As you were insistent it was the memory I again tried 4GB of mine in the machine. It POSTED and booted fine. I've just played COD5 on it for almost 45 minutes and restarted it myself 5 times. All without a problem so you're right and it has to be the memory.

I'll RMA it. Leave my 4GB in her machine that we know works and get another 4GB for myself.

D D Danneh · 21 Aug 2009 at 21:50

avrc said:
As you were insistent it was the memory I again tried 4GB of mine in the machine. It POSTED and booted fine. I've just played COD5 on it for almost 45 minutes and restarted it myself 5 times. All without a problem so you're right and it has to be the memory.

I'll RMA it. Leave my 4GB in her machine that we know works and get another 4GB for myself.

Cool

Well she's got an upgrade to 4GB now anyway

avrc · 21 Aug 2009 at 22:25

Should have put 4GB in to begin with really, the difference is noticeable. Not that she'll appreciate it!

avrc · 22 Aug 2009 at 15:49

Sent the memory back today. Step daughter has been on her pc since 9am this morning using my memory and it's not fallen over once. Hopefully OCUK will be able to confirm it's faulty.

Thanks for all the replies!

ray liotta · 22 Aug 2009 at 16:36

I'd be more worried about a 10yr old spending 7 hours straight on a computer :eek:

avrc · 22 Aug 2009 at 18:58

She has breaks, just been leaving it on. She'll only be on it for any great length of time during the weekend and holidays.

paininlife · 22 Aug 2009 at 22:44

m reali amazed,shes onli 10 yrs old and alreadi hav a blog , OMGGGGG , and hope thy RMA ur ram

avrc · 27 Aug 2009 at 11:00

Just thought I'd update this.

Overclockers just sent me an email confirming refund so the memory definitely was faulty.

Randomface74 · 27 Aug 2009 at 11:07

I would increase the voltage in the RAM by the smallest possible increment.
And pay close attention to your GPU Temp, use RealTemp for this.

avrc · 27 Aug 2009 at 11:09

billysielu said:
I would increase the voltage in the RAM by the smallest possible increment.
And pay close attention to your GPU Temp, use RealTemp for this.

Thank you for the suggestion however you didn't read all the way through the thread

I RMA'd the memory (did try different voltages) and it's been confirmed faulty. The machine in question has been running without issue with some of my memory in it since I sent the other stuff back.

Randomface74 · 27 Aug 2009 at 11:13

Yeah I did read it, but decided to add my suggestion anyway (for other people with this problem).

Also, I doubt they bothered to check your RAM, so just because you're getting new RAM it doesn't mean the old ram was tested and proven faulty - so you might plug it in and have the same issue - especially if it's the GPU Temp rather than the RAM.

Good luck tho.

avrc · 27 Aug 2009 at 15:20

I'm not getting replacement ram.

My own machine had 4x 2GB so I took 2x 2GB out and that's now in the other machine. As that worked I decided to leave it in rather than replacing it and bought myself another 2x 2GB matching to replace the memory I'd taken out.

That other machine has been running problem free since I put my memory in it. So the problem was resolved and the memory was at fault.

Pawnless Endgame · 27 Aug 2009 at 15:41

billysielu said:
Also, I doubt they bothered to check your RAM, so just because you're getting new RAM it doesn't mean the old ram was tested and proven faulty - so you might plug it in and have the same issue - especially if it's the GPU Temp rather than the RAM.

When I RMA'd a CPU to OcUK back in 2006, it was tested and returned back to me as non-faulty. But yeah, that was 3 years ago, so I don't know what the score is at present. It does say in OcUK's T's & C's that non-faulty items are returned back to the customer at a set charge (about £21 when it happened to me).