Multiple bluescreens

It may be the first option, a driver. I don't know how to modify the kernel but a driver may have, although I haven't installed any except my video card.

I don't understand what #2 means.

And again I think #3 could be the cause, hardware corruption could relate to the RAM.

Is there a way to narrow it down? Where should I go from here?

Mist, I know it will take a little time but could you give a list of the things we have tried so far? A simple 1, 2, 3, etc. would suffice. Also, as stated before, if you can please link us to your motherboard and RAM, unless of course you have already done this and I just plain forgot.

My motherboard and RAM are both already posted in the thread. At least I think the RAM is.

So far we have:

Re-installed all drivers once
Re-installed video card drivers three times
Re-installed Windows XP once
Upgraded to Windows 7
Bought a new Power Supply (needed it anyway)
Bought a new hard drive
Ran Memtest twice, first with 7 passes then again with 9 passes
And a few other minor things.

My new RAM is set to arrive tomorrow but I'm not so sure this blue screen relates to it.

Just had another bluescreen when loading this thread to check for replies. Memory Management again, but I think we're past the stage of trying to narrow that down.

Okay, you installed the new RAM and it is designed for 2.0v, correct?

Nope my new RAM is supposed to come later today (Thursday the 8th) all the above blue screens are prior to installing it. I do have a question for when the RAM does arrive though, do I have to manually set the timings/voltage or will it automatically adjust to the correct settings?

Excellent question. I personally would allow the motherboard to set voltage, etc. Then check what the BIOS says. If you get stability, great. If not, go into the BIOS and set the voltage to the designed specs.

Well my new RAM arrived a day late and I've just finished installing it. I set the voltage to 2.0V using the Over Voltage tool in the BIOS. But I haven't yet set the latency, I'm not sure what to set. Everest and my BIOS have different names for some options and I don't want to set something wrong. Here's a screenshot which I hope will help.



It may be kind of hard to see due to Photobucket resizing it to an annoying resolution.

What does the BIOS show?

This may be poorly formatted:

I went to the Performance Tab then into DRAM timing and these are the settings I saw:

Memory CLK: DDR2-800, DDR2-800
CAS Latency (TCL) 5.0, 5.0
RAS/CAS Delay (TRCD) 5CLK, 5CLK
Row Precharge Time (TRP) 5CLK, 5CLK
Min Active RAS (TRAS) 18CLK, 18CLK
RAS/RAS Delay (TRRD) 3CLK, 3CLK
Row Cycle (TRC) 24CLK, 24CLK
Command Rate (CR) 2T, 2T

It appears the motherboard set the memory to the slower timings which is the norm. Anytime you have matching memory but one is lower than the other in speed/timings the motherboard will automatically set all memory to the slowest that is installed.

Are you getting any system crashes, etc.?

No problems so far. But in the past I have gone days without a bluescreen.

Keep us updated.

I will, so I should just leave the latency/timings alone for now? Speaking of updates Biostar still haven't replied to me about lowering the voltage, and I don't think they are going to.

if stability is present at this time just leave as is.

As for Biostar, since this board is rated for memory voltage 1.95 and higher I doubt they have anything in place other than a BIOS update that will allow the lowering of memory voltage.

Well one week on with my new RAM and I'm happy to say I've had no bluescreens, I've kept everything as you said and my computer is running fine. I have had some problems with a certain game crashing, but since it was only this game I'm just going to assume it's not a problem on my end. I just thought I would update you on my status and add closure to this thread, Route44 I cannot thank you enough, I feel as if you're the reason everything is finally working as it should be. You've been a huge help and once again I thank you.

Excellent to hear! Glad it is working out and glad I could be of help. If you continue to get system crashes with that one game it probably means a driver issue, but see how it works out over the course of time.

Thanks for the update.