Ram Issue's?

[Tom10050]

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.

[hiyayhi]

That is a very interesting problem...

It definitely is NOT a ram slot? have you tried having one stick in every single slot?

Other than that I have no clue.

[Tom10050]

It's not the ram slot because I am using the same slot for the Kingston ram.

[TheAsian1337]

Look at your RAM speed that may cause your system to freeze up or slow down. There is another reason as well look at your BIOS and see if the speed that it can go to on your vengeance RAM is matched with your BIOS settings. The BIOS sometimes can't auto detect your RAM speed sometimes. There was a problem at DELL that i work at that the BIOS wouldn't put the RAM to its proper speed intstead the speed was clocked at I think 533MHz.

The Asian is Everywhere

[mgsstar]

Did you try using MemTest86 to see if the ram is creating errors?