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Your viewpoint is without question as far as I'm concerned.
Most of them while running for a while. Sometimes when rebooting from a BSOD it crashes again after Windows logon.
Remember having BSOD at the very start only once.
Did all of that.. Had BSOD also with each stick separately.
Tried cleaning, removing dust...
Never used it. However, at some of early Windows installs, I left 3D Vision unistalled, and the problems persists.
I'm believing in hardware problem, also.
Just don't have any ideia of which one.
Took RAM sticks for RMA today.
They asked me a maximum of 2 weeks for a reply after completing the tests.
Trying getting another DDR3 stick with a friend of mine, probably tomorrow.
(If he had just told me earlier that he had a DDR3 to spare..)
May take CPU for RMA at Wednesday.
Running with friend's RAM.
Let's see..
Make sure his RAM modules are compatible with your motherboard, otherwise you'll run into another mess of problems.
Checked before, are compatible.
Still running with no crashes yet.
I'm not confident it will last long, though
I'll let you guys updated :)
Still running with no crashes at all with friend's RAM stick.
However, with my RAMs at RMA, I could run the system stable for more then a week once.
Can a RAM be with "problem" even with memtest86+ not showing anything running for 10 hours?
Diagnostic software can only go so far. Even Memtest - as thorough as it is - can only do so much in testing the RAM. There's perchance a possibility the issue lies not in the RAM itself but the crosstalk between RAM and the CPU or another device using DMA (Direct Memory Access), in which case that would implicate the motherboard more than the RAM. Hardware problems are rather difficult to evaluate through software methods, so often times it ends trying to isolate potential items of cause and then just swapping hardware and hoping for the best, like now. I hope it's the RAM we're dealing with and not the mobo!
I'm back with some news.
Passed 25 days since took RAM kit to RMA, no BSOD at all.
Tested with:
1 x 4gb Markvision 1.5V 1333mhz Single channel for 15 days
and
1 x 4gb Kingston Hyperx 1.65V 2400mhz Single channel (same as mine) for 10 days
Yesterday, the store gave me a NEW RAM kit.
Took it home, placed both at the machine.
ONE HOUR running the system, it crashed, BSOD.
Seriously, what the hell?
Motherboard warranty 10 days left.
Uh oh. I'd take that motherboard out and RMA it asap before that warranty expires skipper, if just for the fact that its warranty is about to run out.
That or of course, the mobo just doesn't like the RAM you're feeding it (either it can't handle the amount you give it of that particular model or the mixed setup), in which case no amount of RMAs will fix it outside of requesting a refund and getting another mobo that will accept the RAM better.
Running with OLD RAM kit, 2 x 4gb on the machine: BSOD
Running with OLD RAM kit, 1 x 4gb on the machine: BSOD
Running with FRIEND's RAM, 1 x 4gb on the machine: NO BSOD
Running with NEW RAM kit, 2 x 4gb on the machine: BSOD
All above were tested in all slots.
I just can't see how it would be the motherboard as I had no BSOD with the same type of RAM.
Sure there's a possibility, but tests won't let me see it.
However, 2 kits with problem is weird.
Configuration Running ATM:
NEW RAM 1 x 4gb + FRIEND's RAM 1 x 4gb: no BSOD yet
Doing this mix to check motherboard.
Last edited by rslembo; 13 Mar 2013 at 11:08.