Is my memory borked

setter · 14 Mar 2013 at 21:28

Been having a lot of system crashes/freezes the last few days, culminating in a reformat and fresh windows install at the weekend. Also updated the firmware on my ssd, (120gb vertex 2e bigfoot). Still nothing but problems. Downloaded and ran memtest 86 via cd, results below after a few minutes.

System at stock speed, ram is 8gb (2x4gb) of corsair vengeance low profile. Had been running the oc in sig, ram at 1600mhz, 1.57500v 9-9-9-24. Whats the likelyhood that this is ram related, whilst this is bad, im hoping it isnt a mobo issue. Dont have any other suitable ram here to troubleshoot with.

troops · 15 Mar 2013 at 03:33

Have you tried the ram in the other slots? and what bsod do you get.

setter · 15 Mar 2013 at 16:31

Tried each stick individually in each ram slot. All passed without issue, i let memtest run for a single pass each time, (11 mins per pass). After that, reinstalled the full kitin its reccomended slots for dual channel. Left it running memtest over night, 6 hours and no errors. Codes i was getting are.

0xC5 (0xFFFFF81002C0F6B0, 0x2, 0x0, 0xFFFFF80002BB4A4E)

0xF4 (0x3, 0xFFFFFA8008B26B30, 0xFFFFFA8008B26E10, 0xFFFFF80002DC9470)

wazza300 · 15 Mar 2013 at 16:41

have you run chkdisk on your ssd? and run antivirus/anti spyware just to make sure

PiKe · 15 Mar 2013 at 16:46

wazza300 said:
have you run chkdisk on your ssd? and run antivirus/anti spyware just to make sure

This will have absolutely no relevance over the memtest results.

Could be the motherboard has a dying capacitor and loading it with both sticks of RAM pushes it over the edge.

wazza300 · 15 Mar 2013 at 16:51

true but those bsod error codes can be linked to spyware or virus from what ive googled

setter · 15 Mar 2013 at 16:58

Was running a virus scan just now, got to 81% before blue screening, same 0xF4 code as above. I did set chkdisk to run yesterday upon next boot, got so far then seemed to freeze. Hit reset though.

Edit: Blue screened again with same code, looked at my ssd, (vertex 2e 120gb) red light on drive. Upon reboot, the disk wasnt detected, went straight to cd. Rebooted and ssd detected again.

setter · 15 Mar 2013 at 17:19

Ssd only detected on 1/3 boot attempts now. When windows loads, it freezes with the red led flashing on the drive, followed by bsod.

wazza300 · 15 Mar 2013 at 17:33

do you have a spare hdd to try?

setter · 15 Mar 2013 at 17:40

Just two old 36gb raptors taken from an old rig. Tbh, i might drop the whole rig off at my nephews. Hes a comp science student who does repairs testing etc in his spare time.

wazza300 · 15 Mar 2013 at 17:52

could be ssd or memory,seems strange that its freezing when you try to do a chkdisk

PiKe · 15 Mar 2013 at 22:01

Monies on the motherboard being faulty here, the faults are all over the place.

setter · 16 Mar 2013 at 03:46

Im hoping to god it isnt the motherboard. Memory or ssd i can live with, new board no way. Asus rma is very poor. Tbh, i really regret downgrading to this pile of slow garbage. My old x58 i7 920 @4.2ghz was a far better running setup.

wazza300 · 16 Mar 2013 at 10:01

stick a raptor in and do a clean install and test it,cant be good news if the red light is flashing on your ssd

marc2003 · 16 Mar 2013 at 10:33

have you tested the memory without the SSD attached? memtest shouldn't need or use a hard drive.

zerrku · 24 Mar 2013 at 10:28

Did you tried to test that RAM on another motherboard? You can try updating the BIOS too.

setter · 24 Mar 2013 at 21:16

Turned out to be my ssd. New hdd installed and system running grand, cpu oc'd and ram running at rated speed and timings.