Something is wrong with my PC

matty114 · 1 Aug 2008 at 08:00

I did a restart for avast but after that my pc wouldnt post so i started messing around with **** i found out it was my ram, i have Ballistix PC2-8500 and PC2-5300 at 800mhz 4-4-4-12. I took the 8500 sticks out and it boots into vista but a lot of my programs like msn and avast crash so what can the problem be?

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More stuff is starting to crash i just lost windows defender

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I tested both the 8500 sticks and my pc will not work with them in any slot.

misterPK · 1 Aug 2008 at 09:17

Have you tried removing the overclocks on your 5300 ram and the cpu? Maybe checked the voltage for them? Also have you run memtest on all your sticks?

PK!

matty114 · 1 Aug 2008 at 09:20

Its all running at stock atm with just the two 5300 sticks, with the 8500 stick/s i just get a black screen so i will run memtest on the 5300 now.

TheMorningStar · 1 Aug 2008 at 13:06

You could set to 5-5-5-15 and whatever the highest voltage range for the 8500 is so long as it falls inline with the 5300 voltage, if not a best point.

Thats a very odd RAM combo to be running tbh.

Programs crashing like that randomly and random restarts is generally ram errors so your on the right track atleast..

matty114 · 1 Aug 2008 at 17:07

TheMorningStar said:
You could set to 5-5-5-15 and whatever the highest voltage range for the 8500 is so long as it falls inline with the 5300 voltage, if not a best point.

Thats a very odd RAM combo to be running tbh.

Programs crashing like that randomly and random restarts is generally ram errors so your on the right track atleast..

Well i had them together for 2 months with no errors at 4-4-4-12 800mhz 2.2v

matty114 · 1 Aug 2008 at 17:57

TheMorningStar said:
You could set to 5-5-5-15 and whatever the highest voltage range for the 8500 is so long as it falls inline with the 5300 voltage, if not a best point.

Thats a very odd RAM combo to be running tbh.

Programs crashing like that randomly and random restarts is generally ram errors so your on the right track atleast..

Anyway i couldnt do that because when i put the 8500 sticks in my pc all i get is a black screen with my fans at 100%

Forgot to say i had the 8500 sticks for 7 months now.