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Seeking verification of potential motherboard/RAM issue!
Hello sevenforums members!
Last week (February 24th, 2012) I received all the parts I ordered from Newegg and built my new PC. However, after a full week and a half-ish of headaches and frustration, I'm posting in hopes of receiving some insight on the reasoning behind my computer suffering from system hangs, freezing, and BSODs. For the first few days it was intermittent crashing with maybe 1 or 2 BSODs per day, however it became more frequent, and it has eventually come to the point where my rig is outright crashing without so much as a BSOD or minidump, in addition to several BSODs.
After some reading around (especially on this forum), today I decided to take the liberty of running memtest86+ v4.20, as by this point I had begun to become severely suspicious of my memory or motherboard DIMM slots as being the culprit of my frustration and headaches.
Both RAM modules pass memtest86+ with flying colors in slots 1 and 2 after several hours of testing, however when I put what I suspected was a faulty module (which I labelled in my notebook as module2) in slot A2, I received upwards of 6000 errors within the first minute. Curious as to whether it was the slot itself or the module at fault, I replaced module2 with module1 into the same slot, and got no errors. However, I noticed something peculiar: slot A2 on my motherboard is reading BOTH modules at 200 MHz [DDR400] as opposed to the actual 666 MHz [DDR1333] that they should be. This has me wondering: are my RAM modules at fault here, or is this a fault in my motherboards DIMM slots, specifically A2?
I really hope to receive some insight from you guys here at sevenforums. I've attached images of the memtest86+ failures, as well as an image confirming that slot A2 is reading my RAM modules at 200 MHZ [DDR400].
If it helps, my motherboard is an ASUS M4A87TD/USB3, and my RAM is G.SKILL RipjawsX 2x2GB 1333MHz F3-10666CL7D-4GBXH.
Thanks in advance,
Vaiur