Please help me...

I am having blue screens of death everywhere on my windows vista 64 basic

my system....
bfg 9800 GX2
4 gigs of 1333 mhz ram
Quad core 2.66
x-fi fatal1ty
750 gig harddrive hitachi or whatever

anyways, bsod EVERYWHERE, Defragging, restarting, games, desktop, its hard not to sit down at this kickass system and dread the bsod crashes.

All, and i mean all of my drivers are up-to-date, my vista 64 is up to date.

But guess what, this might be found funny

I did download the 4 gigs of ram patch http://www.microsoft.com/downloads [...] laylang=en

validated my registry bluh bluh bluh, when I go to click on the patch, windows says this exaclty when trying to install the windows 64 4 gigs of memory patch "The update does not apply to your system"
WTF?? lol
I never installed it before
MAJOR HELP IS NEEDED PLEASE

Only some hardware configs need that patch! Just because you have 4 gigs and Vista does not mean that you need it. Yours probably does not. If you read the MS page where you DL the patch you will see they are pretty specific about who needs it and who doesn't.

You probably need to make an adjustment to your RAM speed/timings/voltage - all of which might need some tweaking when you fill all four of your RAM slots.

Either that or test each stick of RAM individually. Perhaps you got a bad stick.

Please post your detailed specs here and we can be of more help. Motherboard make/model and RAM make/model 4 x 1 gig or 2 x 2 gig?
Tell us what voltage your RAM is currently set to in the BIOS also.

Your mobo might not like to run the ram at that speed and if it does you will need to set the ram specs in the bios, and you may need extra ram voltage to use 4gigs.

Try a search, its amazing how it works.

Spos - Use Memtest to make sure the modules work individually/in pairs. If so, and I suspect this will be the case, then I'd be willing to bet it's a physical issue with the mobo not being able to drive all 4 DIMMS on the automatic settings...

(1) MANUALLY set all timings to the manufacturer's certified. MANUALLY set the voltages to the max (or near max) of the manufacturer's rating. Manually set tRFC to 54 or greater, and ensure the command rate is set to 2T.

If that works, then consider lowering the voltage - still staying in the recommended range.

If that doesn't work: (2) Bump the voltage to the North Bridge by one setting, and try again. So if the NB voltage is 1.3 then bump it to 1.31, or whatever the next higher setting is.

If that still doesn't work (3) Relax your timings a notch: For example, if your RAM is 4-4-4-12, then try 5-5-5-15.



In my case, I have 8GB of 800 Mhz OCZ Reapers at 4-4-4-12, 2T, 2.05volts. tRFC is 54. FSB is set to 1.33v, partly for memory and partly since I'm running it at 1600Mhz instead of 1066. There was no need to loosen timings on my setup. Your Mileage probably Will Vary.


Regarding the patch you tried to install - That applies to certain memory controllers. If you don't have one of the suspect models, then the update doesn't apply to your system.