Possible ram problem

virdee2 · 14 Oct 2013 at 23:21

New rig built as in sig and all delighted with windows performing!

Get 10 minutes in to a game and the game will just crash and cut to windows.

Every game I play doesn't this at varying times, even old games like battlefield 2.

Tested the ram and it works fine with one stick (either one) but hats both together.

Could I be running wrong timing on them or something? ATM it's only running at 1333mhz anyway and I haven't over locked anything yet.

Please help me

wazza300 · 14 Oct 2013 at 23:23

If games crash to desktop only,then you need a touch more CPU voltage,look in windows event viewer custom view for whea warnings/errors parity 19 CPU errors

virdee2 · 14 Oct 2013 at 23:32

So not a ram issue?

wazza300 · 14 Oct 2013 at 23:37

I would say CPU v first,if it was ram the whole pc would freeze/restart

Typical low CPU v when games crash to desktop regarding haswell and ivybridge

You should look in event viewer it will show warnings/errors on what it crashed on

OracIe · 15 Oct 2013 at 00:09

As wazza says it doesnt really look to be RAM related.

virdee2 · 15 Oct 2013 at 00:11

Event viewer says kernel-power... Not sure what that means but sounds like core to me?

wazza300 · 15 Oct 2013 at 00:18

Kernal power 41 usually means pc shutdown unexpectedly

Check all the views,it will be in custom view

EDIT: in local view not custom

virdee2 · 15 Oct 2013 at 00:38

Thanks guys, increases the voltage a fair amount and now seems stable in games although I'll give it proper go tomorrow for a while to test it out

So simple but greatly appreciate!

virdee2 · 15 Oct 2013 at 22:11

Hey guys, thought I sorted it but it's not right. Can't get my ram to clock to 2400mhz stable... What am I missing? Do I literally have to add more CPU volts you think? I have manually set the ram volts and times as on the ram itself

wazza300 · 15 Oct 2013 at 22:26

Does it support xmp memory profile?

virdee2 · 15 Oct 2013 at 22:33

I believe so. Just checked in CPU-z and it does give an xmp-2400 timing table. If I enable the profile should it just then adjust itself?

Sorry never had such able memory before lol

wazza300 · 15 Oct 2013 at 22:36

Yh it will setup the memory for you to rated 2400mhz

virdee2 · 15 Oct 2013 at 22:38

Just tried it and CPU-z still only showing 1600mhz...

wazza300 · 15 Oct 2013 at 22:41

What BIOS version you on? Latest one?

virdee2 · 15 Oct 2013 at 22:44

f6 which is the latest I think... I purposely did look for the latest bios

virdee2 · 15 Oct 2013 at 22:44

could it be linked to the cpu clock? meaning I have to overclock the cpu to get memory to match?

wazza300 · 15 Oct 2013 at 22:54

Not on haswell as the bclk stays the same,so doesn't alter ram speed

You can try upto 1.65v dram voltage,I don't know much on haswell so can't really tell you what to try

virdee2 · 15 Oct 2013 at 23:59

I tried a few things and turned out over locking the CPU to 4.6 actually made the ram go up but still nowhere near 2400mhz and my CPU runs hot and loud lol

wazza300 · 16 Oct 2013 at 10:25

if you manually set the cpu bclk to 100 it shouldn't alter the ram speed

virdee2 · 17 Oct 2013 at 19:10

Update for those kind enough to have helped me

I have managed to set timing and have ram at its 24000mhz speed and play some games but I'm concerned that when I ran pcmark my score dropped from 7000 to 1000... Trying for the second time now just in case it's a blip but is there a reasonable explanation for that?

Thanks for the help again