Problems when all 4 memory slots used up

thesonglessbird · Jun 21, 2009

I've been having problems with crashes and BSOD's in games just recently and have, I think, narrowed it down to my RAM.

I currently have 4 1GB sticks of Elixir PC6400 RAM on my ABIT IP35-E motherboard (with the latest BIOS) along with a Q6600. Everything at stock speeds.

If I run Memtest86, my PC restarts itself after a few seconds.
If I take any stick of RAM out, the test completes fine.

Testing each individual stick of RAM in each slot and the test also completes with no errors.

I know virtually nothing when it comes to memory...voltages and timings and whatnot so any help with this would be greatly appreciated!

Assassin48 · Jun 21, 2009

bump your NB volts by 1 and check again

[I.R.A]_FBi · Jun 21, 2009

not one whole volt ... maybe 0.05 V

thesonglessbird · Jun 21, 2009

My BIOS only lets me select pre-determined voltages so I can't go up in such small steps.
Either way, increasing it did nothing. Also tried changing the DDR2 voltage from Auto to 1.8V but don't fancy going much higher since I don't know what's safe!

[I.R.A]_FBi · Jun 21, 2009

link to sticks

thesonglessbird · Jun 21, 2009

These are them:

http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Home/Product/16578/Elixir-memory-1024MB-DDR2-800-PC6400

Assassin48 · Jun 21, 2009

did you test each stick in each DIMM slot?

LittleLizard · Jun 21, 2009

probably u have either a dead stick, a dead slot or both.

thesonglessbird · Jun 21, 2009

I've tried them all individually in each slot...

sneekypeet · Jun 21, 2009

It doesnt surprise me any considering its an Abit mobo. They are just about as picky with ram as a DFI can be. Is that ram even on their supported ram list?

thesonglessbird · Jun 21, 2009

I wasn't aware such a thing existed as a supported RAM list!

Would you recommend I swap all the RAM out for a better brand then? It's pretty much the cheapest available as it is so I guess I shouldn't be surprised i'm having problems...

boomstik360 · Jun 21, 2009

Try upping the dram voltage to 1.9, most boards need the voltage to be raised when all of the slots are filled to be alittle stable.

sneekypeet · Jun 21, 2009

well I had a 939 and 975X Abit board, and both played hell with generic ram IC's.

I had good luck with Crucial on both, but let me see if I can find said list for you.

Edit: Here ya go.... http://www.abit.com.tw/test-report/ip35_ip35-e.htm?2

boomstik360 · Jun 21, 2009

http://www.abit.com.tw/test-report/ip35_ip35-e.htm?2

Oh I didn't see sneekypeet's post

You beat me to it lol.

Geofrancis · Jun 21, 2009

bump the north bridge voltage by 0.1v and he ram by 0.1v it should help with stability i had to raise the voltage to run my 4x 1gb ocz reaper ram at stock speeds

erocker · Jun 21, 2009

Geofrancis said:
bump the north bridge voltage by 0.1v and he ram by 0.1v it should help with stability i had to raise the voltage to run my 4x 1gb ocz reaper ram at stock speeds

Yes.

boomstik360 · Jun 21, 2009

Ah yes I forgot the NB part oops :banghead:

thesonglessbird · Jun 21, 2009

Thanks for the help, i'll try playing around with the voltages some more and see what happens.

boomstik360 · Jun 21, 2009

Your welcome :rockout:

Mussels · Jun 21, 2009

on P35 you definately need to raise the NB volts and ram volts.

just take them up 1-2 notches. If you still have problems, one of the sticks of ram is bad.

thesonglessbird · Jun 21, 2009

Well the voltage increases didn't help, so i'm just running with 3GB now for the time being... At least I have stability now!

AsRock · Jun 21, 2009

Assassin48 said:
bump your NB volts by 1 and check again

erocker said:
Yes.

Maybe check if the ram is actually running at the needed volts too. There should be a part in the bios that tells you what volts every things running at.

So after changing them save and re enter the bios. A lot of mobos when you select 1.8v you be running 1.72 or even 1.88 for a example. It varies though so check it.

boomstik360 · Jun 21, 2009

thesonglessbird said:
Well the voltage increases didn't help, so i'm just running with 3GB now for the time being... At least I have stability now!

Take all the sticks out and put the one you took out in and run memtest. Do it with all of them.

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