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BSOD at startup and random restarts

Discussion in 'Windows BSOD, Freezing, Restarting Help' started by Beer40oz, Jul 29, 2011.

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  1. Beer40oz Newcomer, in training Posts: 35

    Well Route just to give you an update.
    The old memory that I had one stick is bad. I tried cold boot with the good stick and the computer works fine!

    Now anyways it don't matter since I got my new ram in.
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...im951X490024X8b5f7dc6d6a72ebc55ae129edb1e5eb5

    On auto settings it gave me 9 9 9 24 2T @1.47V..... it seems stable did the windows experience everything fine.

    Now the ram supposed to be 8 8 8 21 @ 1.5V so I changed that in the bios and doing a windows experience test, the computer rebooted. So it's not stable like that.

    So I read the reviews on that ram and a lot of people have set it to 8 8 8 21 1T @ 1.6V and it's stable. So i did and ran the test again and it is stable. But mine set the Voltage @ 1.58.....

    So I did a memtest86+ for just 5 passes and everything checks out.

    So the moment of truth will be in a cold boot tomorrow. If my manual settings are not good ill go back to auto 9 9 9 24 2T @ 1.47V

    Cheers!

    I hope this adventure will help someone out there!
  2. Route44 TechSpot Ambassador Posts: 12,022   +18

    Oh, please, please, please cold boot well! So it was the memory after all. Reading through this thread we always seemed to come back to that. Here is the thing about Memtest: Other than wrong memory voltage when it gives errors - even one - you've got corrupted memory.

    Look forward to the report after cold boot.
  3. Beer40oz Newcomer, in training Posts: 35

    Oh $het .... it tuned on this morning.... I am happy hope it keeps doing what it suppose it do. But I think in the future I will stay away from G Skill and go with Kingston.....
  4. Route44 TechSpot Ambassador Posts: 12,022   +18

    Yes! :) I have used both G.Skill and Kingston. I have used Kingston in every system that ever needed upgrading, especially in older ones.