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koreninja   06-04-2009 at 08:39:11 AM

Ok so I have a problem I can't seem to figure out.

I just installed 4 more gigs into my system (had 4 gigs) so that brought my total ram to 8gig, system ran 100% fine. Then I started having problems with WoW, so I tried to reinstall and had all these problems. I thought maybe my ram was bad so I ran memtest 86+ for 17 hours, zero errors found. I then ran Prime95 and again zero errors. I did a scandisk twice and still no errors.

So, I decided to start pulling sticks of ram out to figure out if maybe I had one bad stick, after some testing I figured out WoW will install perfectly fine with 6 gigs of ram, but as soon as I add another stick and have 8 gigs I get errors. Here is the thing though, it doesn't matter which stick I pull out to make it 6 gigs, so it seems all my sticks are fine, but as soon as I have 8 gigs I get errors.

I have had zero problems with my system at all with 8 gigs of ram, nothing has given me problems but WoW, no rebooting or crashing or anything, all other games run 100% fine.

Question is, what can I do to fix this? Is it just wow not accepting 8 gigs of ram, why is it other people can have 8 gigs and not have these errors? Something has to be wrong.

Should I try to update BIOS? I have nothing overclocked, I don't have a bad ram slot because I have tested them all with the 6 gigs and WoW runs fine. Does anyone have any ideas?



Vista 64x
Asus P5Q-Pro (Original BIOS)
mushkin 8GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
Sapphire 4870 1gig
E8400 wolfsdale

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Twoboxer   06-04-2009 at 08:46:32 AM
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It seems you have proven that 8 GB filling 4 slots works for everything but WoW.

I don't play WoW, but have you tried WoW technical support forums?

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koreninja   06-04-2009 at 08:49:37 AM
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Yeah they seem to have no idea, it is just other people are claiming they are running with 8 gigs fine. So it's a mystery to me.

Guess worse case scenario is I leave one stick out of my system. ;/

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skittle   06-04-2009 at 09:05:06 AM
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give your ram a little more voltage

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IH8U   06-04-2009 at 09:53:02 AM
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I run WOW with 8GB just fine. Try killing superfetch (worked for my glitchy WOW install).

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koreninja   06-04-2009 at 10:52:29 AM
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Well I did what skittle said, upped the voltage after a bios flash from 1.8v to 1.9v with everything else @stock, fixed my problem. I guess my ram was underclocked?

Everything seems fine now, let's see how it goes.

Thanks to all.

KN

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jonpaul37   06-04-2009 at 04:47:36 PM
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i have almost the exact same setup have, everything works fine for me on WOW...

------------------------------ ASUS PQ5 PRO - E4500 @ 3.3 - 4GB GSkill DDR2 800 @ 4-4-4-10 - Sapphire 4850 512MB @ 655/1015 - Western Digital Caviar Black 640GB 7200 RPM 32MB - Win 7 64-bit - PC Power & Cooling S61EPS 610W Power Supply
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Scotteq   06-04-2009 at 09:16:29 PM
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koreninja wrote :

Well I did what skittle said, upped the voltage after a bios flash from 1.8v to 1.9v with everything else @stock, fixed my problem. I guess my ram was underclocked?

Everything seems fine now, let's see how it goes.

Thanks to all.

KN




Not so much underclocked - Just perhaps not getting *quite* enough power: A little voltage drop under load causing errors. :)

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Twoboxer   06-05-2009 at 08:01:02 AM
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Prime and memtest do not stress the power supply . . . and apparently nothing else the OP runs did either.

WoW :) ! Lesson learned.

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