Very Weird RAM Problems... I think...

MoeBackus

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Motherboard: DFI NF4 Lanparty Ultra-D

Today I upgraded from a half a gig of RAM (Corsair Value PC3200) to a gig of RAM (Corsair XMS3200 CMX-3200C2PT). Everything was working fine until I opened up a game called "EVE Online". Here's where the problem starts. The log-in screen comes up and everything is still running, but when I logged in, my computer immediatley rebooted. I thought I had just run into a normal error or something, but when windows loaded and it came to the log-in screen for windows, it restarted itself again, and again, and again, and again, you get the picture. I noticed something else too, it usually says "Backing up CMOS....OK!" before loading windows, but with this error, it didn't do that, keep this in mind for later.

I thought something was wrong with my RAM so I ran Memtest and came up with 0 errors. I decided to take a stick out to see if it would boot and guess what? It did. This time it showed, "Backing up CMOS....OK!". I shutdown my computer and inserted the 2nd stick and booted up. It was back to normal. It loaded windows without any restarts and had the message, "Backing up CMOS....OK!". I thought this was really strange so I decided to see if this would happen again if I ran "EVE Online" and it did.

By the way, when I booted into windows succesfully, it gave me one of those error report things saying something like, "Windows has just recovered from a serious error." I decided to click details and it say's this, "C:\DOCUME~1\Morg\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER8ebd.dir00\Mini080106-10.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\Morg\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER8ebd.dir00\sysdata.xml"

I repeated the process of taking out one stick of RAM, booting into Windows, shutting down, inserting the 2nd stick, booting into windows again, and then everything was back to normal.

I haven't tried to see if this happens with all my games, but seriously, does anyone have ANY idea on what the hell is going on here?

Thank you in advance.
 

Fardringle

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I would suspect either the second stick/slot isn't installed properly, the second RAM slot has a problem, the second stick of RAM is bad, or there is a compatibility problem with your motherboard and the new Corsair RAM.

Start by putting both sticks (one at a time) in slot 1 in the motherboard and test for stability using MEMTEST. Then put both sticks (again one at a time) in the second slot and test again with MEMTEST. Then run MEMTEST with both sticks of RAM installed. Report any errors you get here.

Also, what motherboard revision do you have and what BIOS version is installed?
 

MoeBackus

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Ok, when I put any stick into the 2nd orange slot (the one closest to the CPU) it will not post. If I put one stick into the other orange slot (the one closest to the edge of the MOBO) it posts and everything works. I'm guessing this isn't supposed to happen. Oh yeah, and I tried resetting the CMOS, even more problems started happening. It said I was missing some ntldr file. I searched around here on the forums and some others were having the same problem. Now the only way I can boot up is with this stupid floppy disk. Man, this is really getting annoying.
 

SantiClaws

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Sounds like you have a problem with the RAM slot. If you have access to a different board, I would test the RAM in that board, and if you have access to two other sticks of RAM, I would try running that in the two slots. But it appears your solution is to RMA the board.
 

MoeBackus

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Update. I called up DFI and spoke to a cool dude over there. I told him my problems and he finally came to the conclusion that I needed to update my BIOS to the latest version and then set my memory voltage to 2.8. Guess what? It works flawlessly now! Thank you guys for your help and thank you DFI!

Now all I need to fix is this weird boot problem where it says I have a currupt or invalid Windows\System32\Config\System file or something and the only way I can get into Windows is with a bootdisk.
 
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