Case: Fractal Design Define R5
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-G41MT-S2PT
RAM: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB DDR3 1600 (BLS2KIT4G3D1609DS1S00)
PSU: CORSAIR CX series CX500M
Hard Drive: Seagate 500GB
I've read from reviews from Newegg prior to purchasing the motherboard and I noticed that compatible RAM seemed to be quite an issue. I had refer to the manufacturer's website and viewed the list of compatible RAM but I opted to choose a RAM that didn't seemed to be listed there but yet costumers who purchased and used the RAM for this board worked. My build is not entirely comprised of new components, only the CPU, hard drive and optical drives were reused for this build. The hard drive wasn't reformatted either as I wasn't sure if the components were going to pick up. When I assembled all the parts, I booted it up to go past the loading black screen but after going past that it shows briefly the typical windows loading then went straight to blue screen. I've tried to change the RAM settings to 1333 but I wasn't entirely sure how since the motherboard seems to support up to 1333 when overclocked but I didn't even get close to that value only 1066.
Anyone know why the blue screen is happening? Most likely it's the RAM which I think seems to be the problem or could be my hard drive that was swapped into a new system?
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-G41MT-S2PT
RAM: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB DDR3 1600 (BLS2KIT4G3D1609DS1S00)
PSU: CORSAIR CX series CX500M
Hard Drive: Seagate 500GB
I've read from reviews from Newegg prior to purchasing the motherboard and I noticed that compatible RAM seemed to be quite an issue. I had refer to the manufacturer's website and viewed the list of compatible RAM but I opted to choose a RAM that didn't seemed to be listed there but yet costumers who purchased and used the RAM for this board worked. My build is not entirely comprised of new components, only the CPU, hard drive and optical drives were reused for this build. The hard drive wasn't reformatted either as I wasn't sure if the components were going to pick up. When I assembled all the parts, I booted it up to go past the loading black screen but after going past that it shows briefly the typical windows loading then went straight to blue screen. I've tried to change the RAM settings to 1333 but I wasn't entirely sure how since the motherboard seems to support up to 1333 when overclocked but I didn't even get close to that value only 1066.
Anyone know why the blue screen is happening? Most likely it's the RAM which I think seems to be the problem or could be my hard drive that was swapped into a new system?
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