Need Help DV6910us

[DiPingu]

Hello everyone,

I need some serious help in determining if my little project is going to work.
I decided to upgrade my computer and get more ram and an ssd. but now my new ram crashes all my programs

I have an hp pavilion DV6910us with 32bit Vista
it has an AMD Turion TL-60
and it has 3gb 667 ram (1 x 1gb and 1x 2gb)

I just bought 4gb 800mhz ram OCZ2M8004gk.

I know i need a 64 bit OS before i can obtain full the benefits, but before i pay for a new OS i want to make sure it'll work fine.

Any tips or suggestions ?
Thanks

 

[voyagerfan99]

Test your RAM. Have you been getting blue screens? I have the feeling it might be defective.

 

[DiPingu]

Nope, no blue screens. I did the bios test on the ram and it passed. Everything turns on okay. but when i run programs they crash.. constantly. I put back the original ram and it works fine again.

 

[DiPingu]

My fear is that my mobo or cpu cant handle the 800mhz, could this be possible ?

 

[wolfeking]

It could be a chipset limitation. Try just one of the 2GB ram dimms that you bough together with the 2GB 667 that you have. This will cause a downclock from 800 to 667. Just make sure that the 667 card is in DIMM 1 and 800 in DIMM 2. If it works, your golden.

 

[voyagerfan99]

Nope, no blue screens. I did the bios test on the ram and it passed. Everything turns on okay. but when i run programs they crash.. constantly. I put back the original ram and it works fine again.

I personally don't trust onboard diags. Download memtest and see what that says.

 

[okapixel]

yup memtest your ram, what ever it is, its obviously ram related, your mobo is not liking the new memory stick