Ok I've had some major problems with my system and have posted in general and hard drive sections. I'm hoping that I've narrowed the problem to the memory so I'm posting here to get as many opinions as possible.
I'll try and keep this short so people can not get bored but have enough info to please give me their advice..!
My mainboard is a Zotec 9300 wifi and I was running it perfectly with 2gb of Corsair xms 5400 675mhz ram in 2x 1 gb sticks. I think its timings are 4-4-4-12.
I then got some OCZ Gold Edition 4GB (2x2GB) 800mhz PC2-6400C5 and put that in. It's timings are 5-5-5-18.
I didn't know that I should have increased my mobos ram voltage with this new ram so my system (win7, intel 80gb ssd) kept blue screeening and resetting. Once I'd been told to up the voltage (from posting here) the system became better but was still unstable.
On more advice from here I ran memtest86.
I had to stop the first test after an hour and it threw up errors on slot 1 during test 3.
I then swapped the modules around and ran the test again, this time much longer. Again I got lots of errors, this time under test 8. But also strangely from slot 1 again...?
Frustrated I swapped the ram modules again but this time the pc wouldn't even initiate the monitor..?
Feeling throughly annoyed I put my old Corsair ram back in (yes I remembered to lower the voltage again!), pc booted fine, and ran memtest86 again. Result? 'Pass complete, no errors' And I ran 3 passes.
So after all that what are peoples thoughts here? Is my ram faulty? What conclusion would you guys draw from all this? Is there any other tests (other than put the ram in another machine which I can't do unfortunately) you would suggest I do? Is my mobo alright even!?
I'll be really grateful for any help and advice. I'm at my wits end with this!
I'll try and keep this short so people can not get bored but have enough info to please give me their advice..!
My mainboard is a Zotec 9300 wifi and I was running it perfectly with 2gb of Corsair xms 5400 675mhz ram in 2x 1 gb sticks. I think its timings are 4-4-4-12.
I then got some OCZ Gold Edition 4GB (2x2GB) 800mhz PC2-6400C5 and put that in. It's timings are 5-5-5-18.
I didn't know that I should have increased my mobos ram voltage with this new ram so my system (win7, intel 80gb ssd) kept blue screeening and resetting. Once I'd been told to up the voltage (from posting here) the system became better but was still unstable.
On more advice from here I ran memtest86.
I had to stop the first test after an hour and it threw up errors on slot 1 during test 3.
I then swapped the modules around and ran the test again, this time much longer. Again I got lots of errors, this time under test 8. But also strangely from slot 1 again...?
Frustrated I swapped the ram modules again but this time the pc wouldn't even initiate the monitor..?
Feeling throughly annoyed I put my old Corsair ram back in (yes I remembered to lower the voltage again!), pc booted fine, and ran memtest86 again. Result? 'Pass complete, no errors' And I ran 3 passes.
So after all that what are peoples thoughts here? Is my ram faulty? What conclusion would you guys draw from all this? Is there any other tests (other than put the ram in another machine which I can't do unfortunately) you would suggest I do? Is my mobo alright even!?
I'll be really grateful for any help and advice. I'm at my wits end with this!
