Computer keeps crashing

Cromulent

Cromulent

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So I built my dream machine and it seems to be crashing at certain times. I can play Crysis 2 on it without any problem at all which suggests it is not over heating but whenever I watch I fairly long YouTube video or a video on BBC iPlayer it completely locks up and freezes. The only way to get it out of that state is to turn the machine off or hit the reset button.

Also the amount of RAM that shows in Windows 7 changes on occasion. Sometimes it will show it has 12GBs of RAM and other times it will show the full 16GBs of RAM being available. It seems to change after a restart either up or down. I have no idea why that would happen though. I would expect it to always show 12GBs if the RAM is defective but at other times it shows the full 16GBs so I am completely stumped as to what the problem could be.

Any help is very much appreciated :).
 
Ok. Running memtest86+ now and there are shed loads of memory errors.

So I guess I should RMA my RAM and pick up some more. Thanks for the tip about memtest86+ I would never of thought of using it.
 
What ram are you using? am also getting loads of errors on memtest, but if I run windows memory test it passes with no errors found. I get the odd BSOD every now and then, last time was two days ago.

So either memtest is not telling truth or windows isn't telling truth lol both programs are ment to be best for testing ram.
I have XMP setup but am not sure on couple voltages if there correct.
 
shankly1985 said:
What ram are you using? am also getting loads of errors on memtest, but if I run windows memory test it passes with no errors found. I get the odd BSOD every now and then, last time was two days ago.

So either memtest is not telling truth or windows isn't telling truth lol both programs are ment to be best for testing ram.
I have XMP setup but am not sure on couple voltages if there correct.
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I'm using the following RAM:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-113-KS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=813

Edit: Just to note that I am using two of the above kits of RAM for 16GB total.
 
shankly1985 said:
Go into bios and see if you have a xmp profile option and enable it. if not you will have to input the settings manually you timings should be CAS Latency: 9-9-9-27 2N.
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Ok. I've just checked in the BIOS again and the latency settings seem correct. Also I still can't find the XMP setting anywhere.

Thank you for your help.
 
I've taken one of the RAM kits out and ran memtest+ and ended up with 20000 odd errors so I switched out that kit for the other one and am currently running memtest+ on that one.

Hopefully that will run without errors and it will be a simple case of a dud RAM kit.
 
In the bios, click Ai Tweaker. Then scroll down to where it says Ai(overclock) Tuner.Click the blue box at the side, there are 3 settings "auto", "manual" and "xmp".
 
Idleman said:
In the bios, click Ai Tweaker. Then scroll down to where it says Ai(overclock) Tuner.Click the blue box at the side, there are 3 settings "auto", "manual" and "xmp".
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OK. Thanks for the information. I've enabled it and it seems to working for the time being. Hopefully it'll stay working although I'm unsure why enabling XMP mode should fix the problem.

What does XMP mode do exactly?
 
Cromulent said:
OK. Thanks for the information. I've enabled it and it seems to working for the time being. Hopefully it'll stay working although I'm unsure why enabling XMP mode should fix the problem.

What does XMP mode do exactly?
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It sets up the ram timings/voltage for you for best compatibility.
 
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