New components, random BSOD and reboots

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  1. Posts : 15
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
    Thread Starter
       #21

    I'm quite sure I have dimm slots gone bad on my motherboard.

    Slots starting from near CPU are:

    A1
    B1
    A2
    B2

    After running memtest for two days with both of my RAM modules, even with the old ones
    it seems slots A1 and A2 are causing problems if I put a module in them.
    I tried each of my two modules, even the old two modules in all four slots and everytime memtest shows up errors within a minute of the test with A1/A2 slots.
    Slots B1/B2 passed 6 times with all my modules separately without errors.

    Currently I have the new RAM inserted in B1/B2 and system seems stable, however the RAM isn't running dual-channel.
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  2. Posts : 1,436
    Windows 8.1 Pro x64
       #22

    Are they designed to run dual channel? I mean normally they are, so that is weird. Maybe the motherboard is slowly going out. Just a guess, but it's possible.
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  3. Posts : 15
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
    Thread Starter
       #23

    Yes. It worked for about a week when I first put in the new components.

    Black slots are A1 and B1

    Blue slots are A2 and B2

    they are color coded but I only can run stable (so far) with RAM just added in B1 and B2.

    I have to point out, that I also did fiddle with the bios settings to set RAM timings and voltages, even northbridge voltages manually to try and run my system stable.

    After failing with those settings I just put all back to auto as they were originally.
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