Very strange, can anyone explain?

[Sticknmove]

I recently built a new gaming machine. AMD 64 3200+ 512kb, MSI K8N Neo, 256mb Pc3200 (kingston Value) *2, Leadtek 6800 GT, Etc. My problem was that after about 5 minutes of playing Doom 3 it crash to desktop. Everything is up to date; drivers, bios'. To make a long story short, I narrowed the problem down to Ram. Taking out One stick solved the problem, so I thought one stick might be bad, I swapped for the other, still no problem. I put them back in opposite slots from the way they were before, and it crashed. I took both of them out and swapped them with two sticks of 256 mb Pc2700 from my old machine, and it works fine. This had never happened with anyother game, FarCry, Painkiller, etc. What could It be? I don't want my ram to go to waste. The ram was advertised as being for Dual Channel, but that should not matter should it?

 

[2Xtreme21]

Does your motherboard support Dual Channel RAM? If not, that would explain why they both would work separately but not together.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Might be your RAM timings. Download and run Memtest86 to see if your RAM's getting errors. If it does, back the timings off in the BIOS (3-4-4-8 is pretty guaranteed even on the crappiest RAM) and try again. If you still get errors and crashes, return the RAM for a refund if possible or RMA to Kingston.

- M4H

 

[Sticknmove]

No, my mobo does not support dual channel. Thanks Merc, I will try that.