RAM error strikes back....

Parallax · 6 Jan 2009 at 13:39

Gents & Uber Legends

I have a problem to which I hope you guys have had experience of and would be grateful of some guidance.

It all started last year when I purchased 4gb of Cellshock PC6400 for my rig at the time. I started having a lot of random blue screens and restarts, so I tested the ram with Ram Probe (Mem Test x86) and indeed errors were found on a few of the dimms through fault finding on each dimm slot on the mboard. So I left it at that and bought new ram, and put it down to a bit of bad luck or something has cuased it through an electrical fault. I have never done overclocking on these modules at all.

So here we are in 2009. I have an entrirely new rig with new motherboard cpu, ram, GPU etc and the problem has return with BSOD and no POST.

The only components that havent changed is the PSU & Case. It is to much of a coincidence as the ram vendor has changed and the identical symptons have occurred. Now I think either the board is shorting out, or the high quality PSU that I spent a fortune on is now worthless. :confused:

This small but elusive issue needs to be nailed. :mad:

Current Rig & No Overclocking

Corsair 6400C4DHX 8GB (now on 4gb due to problem above)
Intel Q9550 E0 Stepping @ Stock
Asus P5K Deluxe Mainboard
Asus GTX280 Graphics Card
Corsair HX 620W ATX PSU
2 x WD 500GB HDD

miniyazz · 6 Jan 2009 at 16:44

You didn't mention no post with the first problem. Was it just an omission, or is this more likely to be a different problem? If you're that concerned about the PSU it might be worth seeing if you can borrow a spare from elsewhere and seeing if the problem goes away.

95thrifles · 6 Jan 2009 at 21:56

Or it could be you've just been really unlucky with your RAM, run memtest again, if it fails you can RMA it, you dont need to replace it yourself, its not your fault if you get supplied with faulty goods

Yellowbeard · 6 Jan 2009 at 22:09

Are you saying that you get the issue with 8GB/4 modules but not with 4GB/2 modules? If yes, you likely need to bump your memory controller voltage.

Parallax · 7 Jan 2009 at 06:29

Hi chap the blue screens occured regardless if it was 4gb or 8gb. So I don't think it's the result of overload on the nothbridge.

Yellowbeard · 7 Jan 2009 at 17:12

Parallax said:
The only components that havent changed is the PSU & Case. It is to much of a coincidence as the ram vendor has changed and the identical symptons have occurred. Now I think either the board is shorting out, or the high quality PSU that I spent a fortune on is now worthless.

Have you tried posting the rig outside the case with it resting on a nonconductive surface?