It seems I'm having some issues with my RAM right now, any help or ideas would be much appreciated. Anyways starting off with some specs:
Intel E6600
Asus P5W DH deluxe
4x 1GB sticks of Crucial DDR2-800 RAM @ 4-4-4-12 and 2.0V
Fore note: About a year ago, I had to RMA the ram as one stick had become defective, but after that my new ram was working perfectly for the last year.
Now a week ago: I start to get strange errors in applications, such as unable to load a specific file etc, I dismissed them as something random and checked for any viruses etc. But after another day of this, I figured it was probably hardware related, and having had a similar experience before, I looked at the RAM.
I decided to run a mem test on each stick alone, and I got no mem test errors, all seemed fine. I put the ram back in, and everything worked fine for a week. Fast forward to today and my computer starts acting up again. Figuring the ram was fine, as i tested it a week ago, I reinstalled win 7 hoping it was some OS issue, but during installation I had a ram related error, I went back to the mem test disk and gathered the following:
Stick 1 in ram slot 1: works fine
Sticks 1+2 in ram slots 1+2: works fine
Sticks 1+2+3 in ram slots 1+2+3: works fine
Sticks 1+2+3+4 in ram slots 1+2+3+4: almost instant mem test crash, computer reboots
So, I figure it is stick 4 or socket 4 that is bad, to make sure I run stick 4 in slot 4 by itself, but I get to mem test errors.
I try all the sticks in each slot: crash again.
I try all the sticks in each slot, but switch mem stick 3 and 4 around: crash again.
I try mem sticks 1/2 in their respective slots, and then mem stick 4 in slot 3: all fine.
I try mem sticks 1/2 in their repsective slots, and then mem stick 3 in slot 4: all fine.
Now being confused, I tried using all the mem sticks and upping the voltage a bit, still errors, then I tried to lower the timings to 5-5-5-15, still errors.
Suffice it to say, I have no idea what could be the problem here.
And right now i'm writing this using 3 sticks of ram, and keeping the 4th out.
Any ideas?
Could this be a motherboard issue?
-Thanks
Cliffs:
Programs start crashing
Guess memory is at fault
Test memory, but can't fine a bad stick / slot
When testing all 4gb at once, mem test crashes
No idea what the problem could be, help?
Also, yes, I'm a longtime lurker
Intel E6600
Asus P5W DH deluxe
4x 1GB sticks of Crucial DDR2-800 RAM @ 4-4-4-12 and 2.0V
Fore note: About a year ago, I had to RMA the ram as one stick had become defective, but after that my new ram was working perfectly for the last year.
Now a week ago: I start to get strange errors in applications, such as unable to load a specific file etc, I dismissed them as something random and checked for any viruses etc. But after another day of this, I figured it was probably hardware related, and having had a similar experience before, I looked at the RAM.
I decided to run a mem test on each stick alone, and I got no mem test errors, all seemed fine. I put the ram back in, and everything worked fine for a week. Fast forward to today and my computer starts acting up again. Figuring the ram was fine, as i tested it a week ago, I reinstalled win 7 hoping it was some OS issue, but during installation I had a ram related error, I went back to the mem test disk and gathered the following:
Stick 1 in ram slot 1: works fine
Sticks 1+2 in ram slots 1+2: works fine
Sticks 1+2+3 in ram slots 1+2+3: works fine
Sticks 1+2+3+4 in ram slots 1+2+3+4: almost instant mem test crash, computer reboots
So, I figure it is stick 4 or socket 4 that is bad, to make sure I run stick 4 in slot 4 by itself, but I get to mem test errors.
I try all the sticks in each slot: crash again.
I try all the sticks in each slot, but switch mem stick 3 and 4 around: crash again.
I try mem sticks 1/2 in their respective slots, and then mem stick 4 in slot 3: all fine.
I try mem sticks 1/2 in their repsective slots, and then mem stick 3 in slot 4: all fine.
Now being confused, I tried using all the mem sticks and upping the voltage a bit, still errors, then I tried to lower the timings to 5-5-5-15, still errors.
Suffice it to say, I have no idea what could be the problem here.
And right now i'm writing this using 3 sticks of ram, and keeping the 4th out.
Any ideas?
Could this be a motherboard issue?
-Thanks
Cliffs:
Programs start crashing
Guess memory is at fault
Test memory, but can't fine a bad stick / slot
When testing all 4gb at once, mem test crashes
No idea what the problem could be, help?
Also, yes, I'm a longtime lurker