Guys- I’m back here after the lull – went of town on work.
I have run significant tests myself with different permutations & combinations. I think it points to some setting issues- as windows is fully patched up and works fine with 1 sRAM stick.
So the observations I made, I’m sharing below - Hopefully one of you gurus can pinpoint the problem now.
1. I went to MOBO and loaded optimized defaults for BIOS (my mobo Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H B3 – rev 1.3)
2. I ran memtest for over 10 passes on both the sticks of RAM INDIVIDUALLY in 3 of the 4 slots (didn’t get time to check 4th but Im sure it’ll be OK and regardless, I’m not using that slot anyway).
3. Both RAMS (individually) pass with 0 errors over 10+ passes overnight. (RAM is Corsair DDR3 XMS 1600MHZ, 1.65V 2 X 4GB sticks - 8GB XMS Memory kit for dual channel systems, 1600MHz, 9-9-9-24, 1.65V = Tech specs here linked
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When I put both RAMs together, Memtest fails within 5 seconds- gives 40,000 + errors within a few mins. I thought voltage but its on AUTO so it shd. Be OK.
5. Now I’ve used system with just 1 RAM stick in one of the slots and usability wise, it works fine. The moment I added in 2nd RAM stick, I got another BSOD saying “memory management”.
6. Attached are all dumps for info- now just the SF diag tool dump but I’ve also put my bios setting in another zip so you could look at it.
All help is appreciated.