I bought a custom built PC just over a year ago. Knowing my luck, it started playing up just outside the 1 yr onsite warranty. Up until now I have not had a single problem with the computer but now I am absolutely stumped. I do not OC (mostly because I am too lazy/scared to) and have looked for similar posts but found nothing that seems to explain what is wrong.
I have a Asus P5N32-E SLI Plus motherboard
http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=1567&l1=3&l2=11&l3=495&l4=0
and 4GB (2 * 2GB) DDR2 800MHz Corsair TWIN2X4096-6400C5
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145184&Tpk=TWIN2X4096-6400C5
Initially Vista 64 Ultimate failed to boot due to a corrupted system volume. Believing the problem was with the hard drive, I replaced the harddrive with a 1TB Seagate Barracuda. When trying to install Vista again on the new HD I got blue screens as soon as the image loaded. As soon as I removed 1 stick the install went smoothly. I then upgraded to SP1 and updated my BIOS. Then when I put the 2nd RAM stick back in, every single time it boots the bios then comes up with the windows loading screen for 3 secs then goes to a blue screen mentioning hardware issues. As soon as I go back to 1 stick (either of them) in any of the 4 slots it boots and works perfectly again.
I suspect that it is my motherboard that is playing up as Vista boots and runs perfectly with just one stick of RAM in any of the 4 slots but as soon as I
Reading other forum posts, I have already tried (with no successful Vista boots):
- Running memchecker+ on both sticks indiviually and together (in different slots) with not a single error
- Tried installing the 2 sticks on the two SLI RAM channels and the 2 non SLI channels
- Manually set the RAM voltage to 1.9V, 2V and 2.1V with CAS of 5-5-5-18
Is there anything else I should do or try? I really dont want to have to send my motherboard or RAM off as RMA unless I absolutely have to and know which is the culprit.
Does it sound like the RAM or the motherboard?
Could it lack of power? (I have a 700W OCZ Game X Stream)
Any help would be much appreciated.
I have a Asus P5N32-E SLI Plus motherboard
http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=1567&l1=3&l2=11&l3=495&l4=0
and 4GB (2 * 2GB) DDR2 800MHz Corsair TWIN2X4096-6400C5
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145184&Tpk=TWIN2X4096-6400C5
Initially Vista 64 Ultimate failed to boot due to a corrupted system volume. Believing the problem was with the hard drive, I replaced the harddrive with a 1TB Seagate Barracuda. When trying to install Vista again on the new HD I got blue screens as soon as the image loaded. As soon as I removed 1 stick the install went smoothly. I then upgraded to SP1 and updated my BIOS. Then when I put the 2nd RAM stick back in, every single time it boots the bios then comes up with the windows loading screen for 3 secs then goes to a blue screen mentioning hardware issues. As soon as I go back to 1 stick (either of them) in any of the 4 slots it boots and works perfectly again.
I suspect that it is my motherboard that is playing up as Vista boots and runs perfectly with just one stick of RAM in any of the 4 slots but as soon as I
Reading other forum posts, I have already tried (with no successful Vista boots):
- Running memchecker+ on both sticks indiviually and together (in different slots) with not a single error
- Tried installing the 2 sticks on the two SLI RAM channels and the 2 non SLI channels
- Manually set the RAM voltage to 1.9V, 2V and 2.1V with CAS of 5-5-5-18
Is there anything else I should do or try? I really dont want to have to send my motherboard or RAM off as RMA unless I absolutely have to and know which is the culprit.
Does it sound like the RAM or the motherboard?
Could it lack of power? (I have a 700W OCZ Game X Stream)
Any help would be much appreciated.
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