Comp keeps crashing

Guy

Guy

Guy

Associate
Joined
5 Mar 2007
Posts
751
Location
Rochdale
I don't know if this is right place for this forum but i need help. I have just bought all my computer parts on here on friday, then i when i got them i went to work installing them. when i have finished it was booting up fine then when i went to try and play a game it crashed. after my computer doing this 5 times windows offered me a solution, i might be the RAM. so i downloaded the program they gave to test my RAM and when it started the test the RAM was failing.

So i went around some forums looking for a solution, one told me to try each RAM stick on its own, which i did and they worked OK on there own. so i have been running my new computer on 1GB instead of 2.

Yesterday i went out and bought STALKER when i try and play this game after about 1hour it crashes again, and again windows is telling me it is the RAM.

Has anyone any idea how i can fix this???

Thanks in advance

PC SPEC;
CPU: e6600 duo
MoBo: Asus P5N-E SLI
Graphic: BFG 8800 GTS OC 320MB
RAM: Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400 C4
PSU: Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 SLI
 
I've already made sure the RAM timings are what they should be, what is CAS (im pretty new to bios :P)

As far as i can gather yes, but im going to invest in another 2 fans to make sure.
 
shame i dont have another PC to test the RAM in, could be the mobo if the RAM wont work it there are 2 sticks in?
 
Ok i've just finishing doing the tests,

stick 1 in the correct slot: fine
stick 2 in the correct slot: fine
stick 1 + 2 in correct slots: lots of errors

Test 1: fine
Test 2: fine
Test 3: fine
Test 4: lots of errors about 268 in total
Test 5: lots of errors now up 2 4096
Test 6: lots of errors now up 2 5120
Test 7: errors but number didnt go up
Test 8: i think there was 1 error

When it restarted to test, if found errors on test1,2 + 3
 
OK i have checked on the Corsair website, it said my RAM timings are 4-4-4-12, which i what i have set them to in bios. also the voltage is 2.1v so i set it to the nearest one which is 2.085v.

now i'm gonna see how long stalker plays for before it blue screens my computer
 
ok it still seems to crash in games with both RAM in there correct slots
 
Last edited:
You are correct in thinking i have them in the yellow slots, as soon as i finish work in gonna change them over to the black slots. Then fingers crossed it will play STALKER with no blue screenies.
 
keogh said:
And I would deffo put your DDR Voltage to just above 2.1v (2.178v on the P5N-E) instead of just below, that could be causing the problem!

Bear in mind though, that STALKER does have it own issues, you could be assuming its your PC and its actually the game.

I have been playing STALKER non stop for weeks now and never had a problem, but I am on XP... if you are on Vista, combined with a 8800, who knows what it will do!
Click to expand...

Im just running XP atm the moment with all the correct drivers, havnt had much of a problem playing with one, so im guessing that they are ok and its just gonna be a case of putting the RAM in the other slots and to change the voltage to 2.178v
 
ok i have adjust the voltage, but when i try to run in the black slots the computer doesnt go passed the screen where you can press Delete to get into bios. not even the keyboard works, this normal??
 
when the RAM was in the black slots when i turned my comp on i couldnt access bios to do anything it was just staying on the first screen you get when you turn your comp on.
 
Right i have posted the problem and the thread with the post on that link you gave me, thanks for all your help so far man, will let you know if i get the problem solved.
 
Yeah RAM the memtest and was still getting a lot of errors, i think if i can get the other slots to work then i should be ok, there seems to be a problem with the yellow slots. So i'm gonna try and see if someone can find out why the other slots aren't working.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom