Hi everyone.
I upgraded my system's ram a couple of days ago and ever since then, my computer has been restarting randomly every ten or twenty minutes.
System Specs:
2.8ghz Intel P4
Windows XP Pro
ATi Radeon 9800 Pro
Maxtor Sata 150 300gb HD
500 watt PSU
2x512mb Kybte Ram
2x512mb OCZ Ram (upgrade)
My motherboard has 6 slots total (for dual channel ram). 3 slots in each pair.
After researching the problem a bit myself, I'm think there is something up with the new RAM I've installed. I gone ahead and disabled something under System Properties in Windows that prevents the computer from restarting whenever there is a fatal error. Instead I'm taken to window's blue screen of death and receive the error: "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL"
I took the liberty to go ahead and run Microsoft's Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool (I created a bootable diskette).
When I first ran the test, that is with all four sticks seated on my motherboard, test 4 and test 5 failed every pass, LRAND and Stride6 respectively.
I then tested each RAM module individually and much to my surprise, each individual RAM module succeeded on every test on multiple passes.
I tested each individual slot on my motherboard by running the same test with a known working RAM module individually on each slot. Again, everything worked out fine.
I tested my dual channel K-byte RAM by itself on slots 1 and slots 4 (first slot of each pair). No problems here.
I did the same thing with my OCZ dual channel RAM and again no problems.
When I combine both kits, as in when I have all 4 modules running togethers, thats when my RAM ends up failing the memory tests.
I'm finding all this quite strange. Any idea on what could be happening?
I upgraded my system's ram a couple of days ago and ever since then, my computer has been restarting randomly every ten or twenty minutes.
System Specs:
2.8ghz Intel P4
Windows XP Pro
ATi Radeon 9800 Pro
Maxtor Sata 150 300gb HD
500 watt PSU
2x512mb Kybte Ram
2x512mb OCZ Ram (upgrade)
My motherboard has 6 slots total (for dual channel ram). 3 slots in each pair.
After researching the problem a bit myself, I'm think there is something up with the new RAM I've installed. I gone ahead and disabled something under System Properties in Windows that prevents the computer from restarting whenever there is a fatal error. Instead I'm taken to window's blue screen of death and receive the error: "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL"
I took the liberty to go ahead and run Microsoft's Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool (I created a bootable diskette).
When I first ran the test, that is with all four sticks seated on my motherboard, test 4 and test 5 failed every pass, LRAND and Stride6 respectively.
I then tested each RAM module individually and much to my surprise, each individual RAM module succeeded on every test on multiple passes.
I tested each individual slot on my motherboard by running the same test with a known working RAM module individually on each slot. Again, everything worked out fine.
I tested my dual channel K-byte RAM by itself on slots 1 and slots 4 (first slot of each pair). No problems here.
I did the same thing with my OCZ dual channel RAM and again no problems.
When I combine both kits, as in when I have all 4 modules running togethers, thats when my RAM ends up failing the memory tests.
I'm finding all this quite strange. Any idea on what could be happening?