Memory Problems

[Surge]

Ok, I have some memory problems I have a End Of life sets of 2x PDC34G1333ELK (2x2Gb x 2, Total of 8Gb’s). I bought them separtely but a Local big PC store here brand new.

The problems I’m having is when I put in all 8Gb’s, I get these randomly lock ups and blue screen of errors and it restarts, It happens a lot when I play games, but its so random, I can play certain high memory demand games and be fine and I mean it was months before it last happened before and then it starts locking up whenever I play something, even locks up during simple internet searching now. Btw 4 Gb’s don’t cause any problem, just when all the sticks are in.

Now I’m asking for any Assistance Before I decide to RMA since these have a lifetime warranty.

I have AMD 965 BE Cpu, Asus Crosshair Formula iii mobo, 5870 ati/amd radeon and 850W PS running Win 7 Pro.

I haven’t done a memtest test but I used the Windows 7 version of the test on Extended tests for 2 passes and doesn’t show anything with problems

I also did some searching about the exact kit and found someone with the same problem as me using a different board and processor Link[/url=http://www.patriotmemory.com/forums/showthread.php?5016-PDC34G1333ELK-Settings]. I also Have the MemOK button and I have did that couple times and does not work either.

So what am Suppose to do? Increase the timings from stock? raise the voltage from 1.5? Increase the Mh’z?

[mgsstar]

You should run memtest 86 for at least 12 hours to see if your ram is defective. Linus has a guide on diagnosting memory problems:

and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDl27PXVraM

Is it possible to post your blue screen error log using event viewer to find it?

[Surge]

Ok, I had a suggestion of just increasing the voltage from 1.50v to 1.55v. So I put in the other 2 sticks of ram and increased the Voltage and I played a few games and no crashes as of yet. 

 

One question is, can I overclock my memory to 1600 with 1.55v or bump it to 1.6v?

 

Thank you a lot though for the suggestion, will use it if the lock up happens again.

[Surge]

Ok, after running at 1.55v it crashes still and I even went up to 1.64 volts after all the crashes that occurred.  So raising the voltage doesn't work, I might need to do timings.

Anyone know how far I should go and where to start at?