Geil ram possibly causing problems with 680i chipset, advice please

Senture · 26 Jun 2007 at 01:21

I'm in a bit of a pickle concerning the ram, or at least I think it is. 90% of the time when I exit from games, the screen goes FUBAR. At first I though it would be the graphics card, so I tryed the 7300GT from my data server and no joy. Also, programs randomly crash the PC, there isn't a BSOD they just lock the pc and force it to reboot.

The ram is 2x 1GB PC6400 rated at 4-4-4-12 2.1V . I've tryed setting it to auto (5-5-5-18 1.8V) and using auto but 2.1V, nothing works. Is it a case of the ram being incompatable with the chipset?

If you need a pic of the FUBAR'd screen, let me know.

Cob · 26 Jun 2007 at 06:40

Run a few rounds of MemTest.

Dyson · 26 Jun 2007 at 10:55

Running 4gb of the Geil DDR2 PC6400 on my EVGA 680i board with no problems at all. Sure it's the ram?

melbourne720 · 26 Jun 2007 at 11:19

That's quite an OC on the FSB of the 680i. I didn't think the Northbridge could take that. 474 is quite high, that might be the source of your errors.

Senture · 26 Jun 2007 at 17:54

Dropped down to stock, it's still doing the same. Couldn't get memtest to run, I don't have any floppies =/

Cob · 26 Jun 2007 at 18:14

Download and unzip this and burn the resultant .iso to a CD using something like Nero's Burn Image To Disk option.

Senture · 27 Jun 2007 at 17:43

I'll give that a try when I have some blank CDs

Senture · 29 Jun 2007 at 13:20

Memtest reported no errors, gace Vista a try and dhat didn't help either. God I'm really stuck on this one

lordedmond · 3 Jul 2007 at 08:38

its the north bridge and south bridge over heating

pull the pipes off clean off the putty thats ther and refitt with AS5 , this lowers the temps a lot linky

Senture · 7 Jul 2007 at 21:49

Cheers for that, I'll give it a try when I have the balls lol

Rroff · 8 Jul 2007 at 14:31

Prolly gonna have to do that with my Asus P5N32-E SLI (680i) getting some random memory related errors even tho the memory itself passes memtest fine and is running 266MHz lower that its max stable overclock.