Ram issue's?

Tom10050 · March 28, 2013

Hi,

I have and ASUS Sabertooth Z77 Motherboard and a I7 2600k CPU. My computer has been locking up for a few minutes at a time when I am running something generally graphically stressful(sometimes even just a youtube video). I have ruled out the Graphics cards as the problem.

I think it may be the RAM in the system. I normally use 4 sticks of 4 gig vengeance RAM when I ruled out the graphics cards as the problem I switched the ram over to 2 4 gig sticks of Kingston stuff I had. It stopped freezing, I thought it may have been a bad stick of vengeance however it seems no matter what stick of vengeance i put in the system it causes it to freeze, but if I put the Kingston stuff in it's fine.

Can anyone help me with what this might be or any solutions to fix the problem? Thanks.

Dave :) · March 28, 2013

Could be all 4 sticks are malfunctioning. Download Memtest86+ and test each stick individually. It's time consuming but will be necessary to isolate the problem.