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Hi everyone,
I was wondering if anyone could help or even if anyone has experienced the same problem...
I bought and built a PC from here around Xmas time 2012, using a Gigabyte Z77X-UP4 TH Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard (https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-405-GI) and Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel kit (https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-059-PA).
Everything seemed to be going well for the first lot of months, but then I kept getting random freezes and lockups, and then BSOD complaining that there was something wrong with my memory (PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA, SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION). Turns out after running memtest86 for half a day that one of my memory sticks was corrupted - I had my two sticks in the DDR3_1 and DDR3_2 of my motherboard, using the Profile1 (X.M.P settings) and everything else to Auto in the BIOS, and the stick that was in the DDR3_1 slot was the one with errors.
I ended up ordering another set of the same memory, as I couldn't wait until the current set were replaced (I needed my PC for work and had no other PC/laptop available!).
Put the new memory in, ran memtest86 for just over half a day and it reported no problems... until a few days later that I started getting the same BSOD and whatnot, tested the memory and it said it had faults! Funny enough, it was the stick that had been in the DDR3_1 slot again!
Normally I would just assume that I was unlucky and got a bad batch of memory, but what are the chances of ordering memory near 6 months apart and the same problem with the same slot on the motherboard?
The other unusual thing I have noticed is when I placed a working memory stick in slot DDR3_1 (just the one stick, so single channel) and ran memtest86 with it it was reporting the CAS settings as being 6-6-6-20, 800Mhz? Yet putting the same stick in DDR3_2 it reported the correct CAS settings, as seen in the BIOS and using CPU-Z
Has anyone else experienced any similar problems with this motherboard? I'm starting to wonder now if the memory in fact was fine at some point, and it's my motherboard that is somehow frying them!!!
I was wondering if anyone could help or even if anyone has experienced the same problem...
I bought and built a PC from here around Xmas time 2012, using a Gigabyte Z77X-UP4 TH Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard (https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-405-GI) and Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel kit (https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-059-PA).
Everything seemed to be going well for the first lot of months, but then I kept getting random freezes and lockups, and then BSOD complaining that there was something wrong with my memory (PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA, SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION). Turns out after running memtest86 for half a day that one of my memory sticks was corrupted - I had my two sticks in the DDR3_1 and DDR3_2 of my motherboard, using the Profile1 (X.M.P settings) and everything else to Auto in the BIOS, and the stick that was in the DDR3_1 slot was the one with errors.
I ended up ordering another set of the same memory, as I couldn't wait until the current set were replaced (I needed my PC for work and had no other PC/laptop available!).
Put the new memory in, ran memtest86 for just over half a day and it reported no problems... until a few days later that I started getting the same BSOD and whatnot, tested the memory and it said it had faults! Funny enough, it was the stick that had been in the DDR3_1 slot again!
Normally I would just assume that I was unlucky and got a bad batch of memory, but what are the chances of ordering memory near 6 months apart and the same problem with the same slot on the motherboard?
The other unusual thing I have noticed is when I placed a working memory stick in slot DDR3_1 (just the one stick, so single channel) and ran memtest86 with it it was reporting the CAS settings as being 6-6-6-20, 800Mhz? Yet putting the same stick in DDR3_2 it reported the correct CAS settings, as seen in the BIOS and using CPU-Z
Has anyone else experienced any similar problems with this motherboard? I'm starting to wonder now if the memory in fact was fine at some point, and it's my motherboard that is somehow frying them!!!
games would go straight to BSOD - if not, explorer would keep crashing, programs would quit before eventually failing altogether
