Help! New RAM keeps making my PC Crash..

Farore · 1 Oct 2009 at 19:38

I bought some Kingston HyperX 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel from OCUK. I set the timings at 5-5-5-15 and the voltage at 2.2

The system refuses to even boot. It just beeps.

I get a C1 error on the motherboard and the system resets.

I'm using a eVGA 780i board.

Shakeel · 1 Oct 2009 at 21:28

ram pushed all the way in?

RJC · 1 Oct 2009 at 21:41

Tried each stick individually, you might have a faulty stick.

Farore · 2 Oct 2009 at 00:51

The memory seems to be OK if I boot it with not adjusting voltages or timings though.

So what's going on? :S

Farore · 4 Oct 2009 at 02:25

That ram is now giving me problems to even get into Windows now. Anyone able to help?

RJC · 4 Oct 2009 at 08:57

Run mem-test on each stick.

I had the same problem with some OCZ memory on my I7 setup, would run fine @ 1066 or 1200mhz, but soon as I went up to 1600mhz Windows would fail to load, run mem-test come up with a load of errors.

Farore · 5 Oct 2009 at 20:23

I've ordered new memory now. Patriot Viper for about the same price.

I think those sticks were dud.

Farore · 7 Oct 2009 at 03:07

The new Patriot Viper works a treat. No problems at all. The speed is only 5.5 on W7. Is this normal?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-013-PA&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=817

This is the memory in question.

RJC · 7 Oct 2009 at 07:08

I would not really worry about the windows index score.

Shakeel · 7 Oct 2009 at 15:44

the viper ones look very nice