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Old 05-09-2008, 05:02 AM   #1 (permalink)
Relly
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Default Is my OCZ causing me to BSOD?

I've been getting lots of BSOD's lately, and it only happened after installing 2GB of DDR2 PC2-8500 OCZ Platinum memory. At first, everything ran great, so it seemed. Then I noticed icons loading slower, games randomly crashing.. then getting lots of BSOD's. They were too quick for me to read but they consisted of "page_fault", IRQ or something, dumping of physical memory.. just random stop errors. These BSOD's don't happen randomly, it's when launching an application or like loading a font tool in photoshop.

My friend told me to come here because you guys are the best. I've been telling him that it has to be the RAM, but he insists that it could be anything. On top of it, if it is indeed the RAM, maybe you guys can recommend a nice pair of sticks that is compatible with my setup.

My specs are the following:
Motherboard: Asus P5N32-E i680 SLI w/ BIOS version 1203
CPU: Q6600 2.4GHz at 3GHz
OS: Windows XP Pro x32
RAM: OCZ Platinum SLI PC2-8500 1066MHz
PSU: Antec NEO 550W HE
GPU: Nvidia 8800GTS 640MB stock

My voltages were:
Vcore: 1.35
HT: 1.3
NB: 1.4
SB: 1.5
VTT: 1.45
Memory: 2.1

Now I have everything on auto voltage because of the BSOD's and instability. I've used various timings, and none seem to make a difference. The last ones I tried were 5-5-5-18-2T

Also, everything is running very cool. CPU at 30C idle, 43C load. Motherboard at 25C. GPU at 49C idle, 60C max.

I've also been getting random artifacts when playing certain games, which I quite don't understand because my temperatures are fine.

Another issue is CPU-Z is incorrectly reading my Max Bandwidth as PC2-5300 (333Mhz), same happens with SiSoft Sandra. The actual DRAM frequency reads correctly to whatever I set it to, but it's quite annoying seeing the PC2-5300 instead of PC2-8500.

Right now I've set my RAM to auto in BIOS. Instead of going to the stock speeds of 1066Mhz, it goes to 667Mhz. Right now I currently have all the timings and voltages at auto. My CPU is currently clocked at 2.9GHz.

Any ideas guys? Thanks in advance. :)

Sorry for the long post ;)

edit: I forgot to add I ran memtest through BIOS for 8 hours straight. About 12 passes on each individual stick, then on both together. No errors at all.

Last edited by Relly; 05-09-2008 at 05:14 AM. Reason: Forgot something
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