Gigabyte P35 issues, BSODs W/ more than 3GB Ram

[brendin]

i have been testing and troubleshooting since September on this issue and i thought windows vista X64 was the cause for a long time until i installed windows vista x32 and found that i get the same issues, so back to square 1, i did some research and found that apparently alot of gigabyte boards have a glitch; when more than 3 gb of ram is used they have completely random BSODs,
i need help fixing this i dont know what i should be doing to fix it, i have the latest everything including BIOS

 

[GhislainG]

Perhaps you could start by posting full system specs?

 

[brendin]

core 2 duo
E2180 2ghz OCed to 3.2ghz 1.344v, gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R, gigabyte Radeon HD4850 700/1140, 4x1gb crucial ballistix Tracer PC-6400 4-4-4-12, Ultra X-Finity 600w SLI w/ Flexforce, Seagate 250GB SATA2, Samsung SH-S223Q, Severely modded XION2 case vista ultimate x64
Watercooling Loop: Swiftech Apogee GT, Swiftech dual 120mm fan Rad, Swiftech MCP-655 Pump, OVV-M2 Chipset Block, OVV-V2 Video Block, OVV-W2 Reservoir, Swiftech 7/16 ID tubing

 

[major53]

brendin try using 2 gig of ram switching between slots





GIGABYTE p35 ds3l-- e8400 wolfdale-- 4 GIG RAM g.skill 800 -- xfx 9800gtx 512-- OCZ 700 POWER SUPPLY---NZXT Apollo BLUE NP Blue SECC Steel Chassis ATX Mid Tower---acer 2216 wide screen---logitech 3000 keyboard and mouse--- vista 32 bit

 

[brendin]

ya it works fine with 2gb of ram but i want my 4gb

 

[Rogue77777]

Either use 2 x 2gb or try manually setting the ram voltage. Sometimes when you use 4 sticks you need to manually set the ram voltage to the manufactures spec's. Sometime you also need to set it .1v or .2v higher in the to get your ram stable.

 

[brendin]

all that voltage stuff is basic, i dont have any 2gb sticks but having 2x2gb instead of 1x4gb shouldn't really make it better, it could but im not gonna go buy them just to find out, i really dont want to put a penny more into my system anymore

 

[major53]

Either use 2 x 2gb or try manually setting the ram voltage. Sometimes when you use 4 sticks you need to manually set the ram voltage to the manufactures spec's. Sometime you also need to set it .1v or .2v higher in the to get your ram stable.

brendin Rogue77777 has a good ideal put the two ram in that boot up and go into bios and set the ram voltage to what the ram is rated at, when in bios hit ctrl and f1 so you can manually set the ram voltage then shut down and put the other two ram in and boot up.and see if 4 gig will boot up then.

 

[brendin]

it does boot and work OK with my 4gb, but the issue is that it gets random bsods that are not from instability

 

[GhislainG]

BSODs often are a sign of instability. What do you believe is causing them with your system?