New build, Everything crashing

Narzal · 20 May 2012 at 19:04

Hi,

I just built a new PC and installed Win 64bit. It worked fine for the first few days but today everything is crashing with the "..stopped working" error.

By everything I mean, games, google chrome, windows updates, pretty much anything that can crash has crashed.

New parts are:

ASUS P8Z68-V PRO
i7 2600K (not overclocked)
8GB DDR3 Corsair Vengeance low profile RAM
Cooler master Hyper 212 EVO

Old parts are my HDD ( 6 months old 1 TB Seagate) and my 750w PSU.

I am really worried about this as I am absolutely clueless as to how to fix it.

metalmackey · 20 May 2012 at 19:29

Could be a faulty stick of ram, try 1 stick at a tine or run memtest for a while.

KIA · 20 May 2012 at 20:50

http://www.memtest.org/#downiso

RJC · 20 May 2012 at 20:53

Hello and welcome to the forum

I echo the above posters in checking your ram, also What is the make / model of your PSU?

BigBoy · 20 May 2012 at 21:03

I would stick a little more voltage through your ram as I had the exact same problem (we have the same ram) set it in the bios to 1.65v or it would not work properly.

ed79 · 20 May 2012 at 21:34

1.65v is a bit high for Sandybridge.

BigBoy · 20 May 2012 at 22:12

It is but if you want to run the ram at 1600mhz at the stated timings it needs 1.65v

RJC · 20 May 2012 at 22:14

BigBoy said:
It is but if you want to run the ram at 1600mhz at the stated timings it needs 1.65v

A lot of ram can run at lower voltages, I have the Kingston Hyper X which runs ok at 1.56v with recommended settings.

Narzal · 20 May 2012 at 23:12

Hi,

thank you for all your help everyone.

I took out 1 RAM stick after many blue screens and it is now working flawlessly so I guess that stick was faulty. I'm waiting for a replacement to arrive now, I have never had bad RAM but is this quite normal if RAM is faulty?

Tombo · 21 May 2012 at 07:14

Hey Narzal, which vengeance was your ram? The white 1.35v one of the regular 1.5v one? I ask because I had the same problem with 1 of the sticks just last night.

38144 errors in 2 minutes of memtest, but the other stick is fine.

bledd · 21 May 2012 at 10:20

Download this

http://www.memtest.org/download/4.20/memtest86+-4.20.iso.zip

Open the zip file and drag the .iso file inside it to the desktop.

Now download IMGBurn (free) and 'burn image to cd', now restart and boot from CD, it will run memtest for you

Narzal · 21 May 2012 at 11:33

Hi,

@Tombo - sorry I don't know much about RAM but here is the one I bought.

Corsair-CML8GX3M2A1600C9-Vengeance-1600MHz-Memory

That one is no longer in stock so my replacement is this one:

Corsair-CML8GX3M2A1600C9B-Vengeance-Memory-1600MH

Please do not link to competitors!

bledd · 21 May 2012 at 11:48

Don't put links to another shop on this site mate.. OcUK is a shop you know!

Just copy & paste the product name

Narzal · 21 May 2012 at 15:59

Sorry I forgot, my mistake