Corsair Vengeance cause BSOD, wont run at XMP

solomonshv

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I own 2 sets of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233142

they won't run at XMP speeds. they keep causing BSOD with the error code 0x 00000124. I even RMAd both sets, got two new sets (in sealed retailed packaging straight from the factory) and the problem persists.

I used to have an i5 2500K and gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD4H-B3 and these sticks used to give me BSOD once every few days.

Thanks to a sale at Microcenter I was able to buy an i5 4670k and an Asus Maximus VI Hero for only $325 total, so I jumped on that deal. With the new sticks I get BSOD every 15 minutes, even when I'm not doing anything.

On the flip side, I brought home 4 sticks of 2GB Nanya 1333MHz memory that I pulled from decommissioned Dell workstations at work. In both set ups they worked with no hick ups.

Memtest never came up with anything.

Any ideas?
 

solomonshv

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I am the most paranoid person when it to comes to keeping things up to date, so yes. BIOS is up to date

I have tried using the XMP profile and also tried putting the timing and frequencies in manually.
 

Tradesman1

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Ok, so asssuming you have them at the stock timings, voltage, etc correct....I'll assume yes (and yes I know about ASSuming) anywho, make sure at spec 1600 timings 9-10-9-27, 2T, , then try raising the DRAM voltage 1.56, next raise the MC (memory controller) voltage - think it's VCCIO or maybe CPUVTT on your mobo, aup + 0.0 from it's current setting.....let me know how it goes
 

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found the problem. one of the sticks was bad but the errors didn't start popping up until the 15th pass. the other 3 sticks made 20+ passes with no errors.

i just let memtest run all day while i was at work with 1 stick at a time, and naturally the very last stick i tested was the bad one. so it took 4 days to find the stinker.