BSOD's and Memtest turning up random RAM erros?

TofuTehSurvivor

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Recently I've been getting the BSOD during normal operation and intensive activity. I've determined that this is a RAM problem; one of my sticks of Corsair CMZ4GX3M1A1600C9B was for sure bad.
 

Wikkedly

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Hey there,

I'm happy to see that you've made it that far on your own.
i apologize if this is a little basic for you. Just trying to help.

What you are going to want to do is test each stick separately.
Run extended memtest on each one.

I advise turning your computer off and taking out all others
then turn it on and go to start menu and enter 'mdsched'
it will ask you if you want to do this now, say yes.
It will power down and go to a blue screen running memory tests.
hit f1 and select extended, do this for each one until one doesn't pass.

I hope this information helps, if not please feel free to ask for additional info.
I will be happy to help you in any way i can until your problem is resolved.

Good luck
~Wikkedly
 

TofuTehSurvivor

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May 11, 2016
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I could have sworn the question I asked a bit lengthier and not sure why it was cut off. I've run memtest on all sticks. That's how I've determined at least that other one was bad. Three sticks have passed tests on their own. The issue I'm now having is the fact that when I run any test I may, or may not, get any amount of errors. From what I've read in a few other places is that this may either be a motherboard error, or the voltage to my RAM may not be high enough. My mother board is a Gigabyte Z97-HD3. I'm running my sticks with a speed of 1600 with Extreme Memory Profile. Usually I'm running 4x4GB of these Corsair sticks, so I've already got a replacement on the way for the bad one. I see the problem mostly happening when I plug more than one stick into my board and at least one of those sticks is occupying the first slot of the second channel(or the second ram slot from the left on my board). I'm almost certain, or praying, that this is just a voltage issue. What is the safe level to up my voltage by, and should I adjust CPU voltage? I'll hop on my desktop and see what they're already at with their voltage and update this in a bit with new info.

UPDATE: RAM is at voltage of 1.500v. That is the default that has been at, and I have never touched this setting previously.
 

TofuTehSurvivor

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May 11, 2016
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I guess I wasn't very clear about that. I had 4x4GB of Corsair CMZ4GX3M1A1600C9B. All sticks are of the same type from the same package. I'm replacing my bad stick with the exact same one as well.

UPDATE: Got my new stick of RAM and plugged it in. I attempted to run my pc with all sticks of the Corsair 4GB RAM after setting voltage to 1.56. The computer won't show anything on the screen, or two times I tried powering it back on it would would cycle to a restart like it was attempting to do something but couldn't. Ugh... So, I can run my PC just fine with only 8GB of RAM in the first channel spread through 2 sticks of 4GB, but if I use channel 2 then I can't even get a picture back on screen or I get the endless power-cycling.

UPDATE AGAIN: Wow, so I literally swapped the spots of the RAM, and now it successfully booted? I don't even... Now I'm going to memtest this whole thing once again with every stick in since I've had at least one successful test of 1 good stick in every slot by itself.
 

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