- Apr 23, 2011
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I recently put together a PC out of spare parts to use as a digital audio workstation. I used my old Asus P6T board and an i7 920. Much to my chagrin, I discovered that the board would no longer recognize DIMMs plugged into the 2nd channel slot. Since this board uses a triple channel memory scheme, I tried simply skipping over channel 2 and using channel 3 instead. I'm aware that you're not supposed to do this, but it seems to have worked. The computer works fine...until it BSODs.
I immediately suspected the RAM placement, but it doesn't happen in any pattern I can reproduce. First I thought the computer would BSOD when trying to allocate info to the "misplaced" DIMM, but I ran Prime95 set to stress memory (98+% memory load) for something like 10 hours without a single issue. Then I tried running memory testing software. All the memory passed without issue. CPUZ and BIOS all read the RAM sticks as would be expected. However, eventually, I end up getting some kind of "bad pool header" or "irql_not_less_or_equal" or "something-or-other_exception" BSOD.
Does this sound like something that can be fixed via software or is it simply "new motherboard time"?
Thanks!
I immediately suspected the RAM placement, but it doesn't happen in any pattern I can reproduce. First I thought the computer would BSOD when trying to allocate info to the "misplaced" DIMM, but I ran Prime95 set to stress memory (98+% memory load) for something like 10 hours without a single issue. Then I tried running memory testing software. All the memory passed without issue. CPUZ and BIOS all read the RAM sticks as would be expected. However, eventually, I end up getting some kind of "bad pool header" or "irql_not_less_or_equal" or "something-or-other_exception" BSOD.
Does this sound like something that can be fixed via software or is it simply "new motherboard time"?
Thanks!
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