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Piotrek12317

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Hi, I have a problem with me new (aged) hardware.
My old computer either fried the mobo or CPU, so i decided to rebuild the rest around the graphics card. Rather than replacing the old parts i put some newer ones, resulting in:
Radeon 1950 pro agp
AsRock 775 Dual Vsta (new)
Intel E6320 (new/used)
Corsair DDR2 633 1GB x 2 (new)

The computer would give me many random blue screens, ie: BAD_POOL_CALL, or IRQL_NOT_EQUAL_OR_LESS and others

After removing the second RAM stick the problems seem to cease.
Do I need to send this memory back and get a pair of different brand (if so which?)

or perhaps there is some other way, such as altering the stick voltages?

thank you,
pete.
 
thats most likely a bad stick of ram. can you run a memory test in the bios? if it is bad, send it back for a new one. corsair is one of the best, if not the best, ram manufacturers.

EDIT: it could be a software problem. did you reinstall windows after you did all the upgrades?
 
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Did you try the other stick by itself?. If it runs fine you might need to set the speed, voltage and timing manually with both sticks installed.
 
it's definately bad ram. the same things happened to me. also got bluescreens like this when i was running 4x1GB, which is now why i run 2x2GB
 
Did you try the other stick by itself?. If it runs fine you might need to set the speed, voltage and timing manually with both sticks installed.
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Yes i did that today.. I also ran Memtest under DOS for both sticks individualy for a while and received no errors. I'm now on the alternate stick and the computer is stable.. so i guess it is the voltage timing issue? How do i go about correcting that...

thats most likely a bad stick of ram. can you run a memory test in the bios? if it is bad, send it back for a new one. corsair is one of the best, if not the best, ram manufacturers.

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thats most likely a bad stick of ram. can you run a memory test in the bios? if it is bad, send it back for a new one. corsair is one of the best, if not the best, ram manufacturers.

EDIT: it could be a software problem. did you reinstall windows after you did all the upgrades?
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It can't be software.. It is a brand new HDD and i tried two versions of XP getting the same results.
 
Piotrek12317 said:
Yes i did that today.. I also ran Memtest under DOS for both sticks individualy for a while and received no errors. I'm now on the alternate stick and the computer is stable.. so i guess it is the voltage timing issue? How do i go about correcting that...



It can't be software.. It is a brand new HDD and i tried two versions of XP getting the same results.
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it might be a bad ram slot. try putting both sticks in the two slots that werent used before.
 
it might be a bad ram slot. try putting both sticks in the two slots that werent used before.
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Can't be, it runs DDRII DDRI DDRII DDRI and the II's would never fit in I's sockets.
- BIOS is up to date, and i did flash CMOS..
I have taken a screen of the memory status
mem.jpg
 
Piotrek12317 said:
Yes i did that today.. I also ran Memtest under DOS for both sticks individualy for a while and received no errors. I'm now on the alternate stick and the computer is stable.. so i guess it is the voltage timing issue? How do i go about correcting that...
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Whats the model number of the Memory?
 
They are suppost to be running at 5-5-5-15 at 1.8V. If they already are try 1.9V.
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CPUZ showed them to be running at 250MHZ 4-4-4-12, they are now 5-5-5-15 320MHZ

The only "DRAM VOLTAGE" options were: Auto, high, normal, low.

Hope this changes things, ill let you know
 
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