Replace ram or no?

JackSpeake

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Currently, I have 2 sets of "G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1600 Memory", and they both work fine, except for one that has been causing me trouble. Whenever my pc has been turned off (All the way like power supply off) my bios is reset and I have to use MEMOK! to boot up, I have isolated the one piece to be the problem, because it boots fine with the others.
(I also have been getting some BSODs could that be related?)

My question is should I remove that one piece (im on a tight budget) and replace it, or is there another way to fix it

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/fy3MhM
 
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There's no guarantee that any differing sets will work well with each other, this is even true of identical sets.

What you can try is slightly changing some things, like the voltage add 0.05v or change timings from 9-9-9-24 to 9-10-9-24. But I would definitely run a memtest86 on all the sticks.

Running 6Gb won't hurt too badly for most games or programs, but instead of trying to replace a single stick, you'd be much better advised to save a little more and replace the whole set with a single 2x4Gb kit.

Karadjgne

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There's no guarantee that any differing sets will work well with each other, this is even true of identical sets.

What you can try is slightly changing some things, like the voltage add 0.05v or change timings from 9-9-9-24 to 9-10-9-24. But I would definitely run a memtest86 on all the sticks.

Running 6Gb won't hurt too badly for most games or programs, but instead of trying to replace a single stick, you'd be much better advised to save a little more and replace the whole set with a single 2x4Gb kit.
 
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The Voltage change didnt work, neither did the timing change. I am probably going to run the memtest tonight and continnue to use the last 2 gigs until the new ram arrives (if the mem test doesnt turn up anything new)... because the only bad things are when I shut the PC all the way off, and the blue screens happen like once or twice a week... but one question, do you think it may be a dead cmos aswell? because when I have to MEMOK! it wipes my BIOS aswell
 

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Well shoot, I ran the memtest86 for 9 hours, (15 tests) and I got no errors...Sigh, I just worry that it may be the cmos battery aswell