Memory Damaged??

Cru54d3r

Cru54d3r

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Booted my computer this morning and was browsing some websites when it BSOD'd - restarted comp and another BSOD - shut it down and restarted and it got into windows but then froze about 5seconds in

Thought this was my main hard drive failing but have scanned and checked all my hard drives and there is nothing wrong - so went into my bios and restored defaults and it worked allowing me into windows as normal - all hard drives accessible

Playing within the bios it appears as though its happy with my e6750 overclock from 2.66 to 3.2 but its not happy with my memory (Kingston PC8500 2x2GB) at 1066 - although its rated for 1066mhz at 2.2v I couldnt get it to run at that on my BFG 680i so had to up that to 2.25v

Have I damaged my memory running it over the specified voltage? Or can I give it more volts? I dropped it from 5-5-5-15 to 5-5-5-18 but that didnt help - still crases.. its only currently resolved by dropping it from 1066mhz to 800mhz

Thoughts please? Thanks in advance :)
 
Few extra notes.. have been running the cpu overclocked for about 2months and the memory at 1066 for a good few months

Safe mode wont even work when it was crashing and there was what appeared to be some gfx artifacts on the screen (rectangular blocks scattered) - thought this could be the gfx card but temp on that appears to be fine (60c)
 
JonJ678 said:
My experience of overvolting ram was that it proved fatal remarkably quickly. 2.2V is pushing it for DDR2 already, the extra 0.05 may well have pushed it over the edge

Don't remember the fsb for your chip, do you have 800mhz ish available? If so it may be stable at this which is a temporary fix. If your ram fails memtest at stock settings you can rma it, though I would advise running the replacement at a slower speed rather than overvolting it
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thanks for the info - so if my memory couldnt run at 1066 when bought at 2.2v would the correct procedure be to return it for a replacement that could? running the lastest bios for my mobo and in a well ventilated case

just i specifically bought faster memory as I had 800 before - didnt think the extra 0.05v would matter much :(
 
JonJ678 said:
I think it's a case of your board couldn't run it at 1066 stock volts rather than the ram being at fault, I don't think the replacement will do it either. However it may well do 1000mhz at 2.2V quite happily.

It comes under the heading of 'incompatible ram', my 1066mhz reaper would only do 1000mhz in a G35 board I used to own but did 1100 in the P45 which replaced it. I believe the correct procedure is to swear repeatedly and then accept that it's not going to run at 1066 :)
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Thanks again for the replies/info

Have i invalidated my warranty on my ram by running it 0.05v over? I cant recall any disclaimers on the packaging though i might have glanced past them in a rush to install the stuff - just wondering whether they would know if i rma'd and returned it
 
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