Memory problem, I think

essenbe said:

And I assume the dram voltage is set to 1.5?

Asus forum said to bump it up to 1.55.

I was able to open those .wer files in notepad



first test
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yes I'm running with the XMP profile and it is set to 1600. The last test that showed the passed, was after I set the 6 back to 7 and the 21 back to 24

essenbe said:

I assume you are running 1600mhz ram and that the Ripjaws x serise has an XMP profile. IShould I also assume that you enabled the XMP profile in BIOS? If so, bios should automatically set the timings and possibly the frequency to 1600. If bios set the frequency to 1333 you should be able to set it at 1600 manually, but let bios set the timings. The board should run the ram at that setting. I have asked for help as I am not qualified to read your dump files. Please also post a screenshot of the SPD tab from CPUz.

Also, I understand that the 8GB of ram with the timings showing in the memory tab of CPUz is passing the windows memory test? Are all of my assumptions correct? If they are I think you should run the memtest from the link I gave. It is a much better ram test than the windows memory test.

Ivan the SoSo said:

Asus boards can be real picky about the ram you use, or you could have a bad stick or slot....since it worked w/4gigs move those two good sticks to the other slots....that will eliminate a bad slot...then add the ram one stick at a time, to see which causes the problem....

I thought of that and tried it, still keeps starting and shutting down. Could it be possible because I'm using 4 sticks of 2gigs each instead of 2 of 4 gigs that could cause it? Asus forums said something on the order of the memory controller or something has to work harder with the 4 sticks than it would using 2, does that sound right?

Ivan the SoSo said:

Possible...now does it do this when overclocked vs stock? The ram is rated to run a set speed....no promises are made on overclocking....

well I stock settings is 7-8-7-24 2t 1.50 volts. I changed it to 8-8-7-24. Asus said to change the 7 to 9 and bump up the voltage to 1.55. I did try 8-8-6-21 for a bit and it seem to run fine until today when I got that error message.

Right now I'm back to 8-8-7-24 and it seems to react faster

essenbe said:

That's what I was told by the G Skill tech rep. Supposedly you have 2 memory controllers, one for each channel. If you are only using 1 channel (2X4GB) it is easier on the CPU. But, it should still run 4X2GB. As Ivan said it is possible that one of the 4 sticks is bad or one of the dimm slots is bad. Running memtest the way Ivan said will answer that question.

like I said I did try switching the ram and slots. I will memtest during the night tonight and see what I get.