Hey guys, I have been getting a BSOD for about 4 or 5 months now. It would happen completely at random and would get progressively worse. Now it does it every time i try to boot my computer. The error is "Memory Management" and I am unsure of how to solve the problem. I figured it was the memory so I replaced the Corsair Dominator 1066 with Crucial Balistix Tracer to see if that would solve the problem and it doesn't. When I put the Dominator in it now it will not post and the monitor will not come on. When I put the Crucial in it, the monitor will come on and it will get to windows and then BSOD. I figured it could be the HD or the cd rom was having a problem with the MOBO so i tried unplugging them and running the bare minimum and still nothing. So after replacing all of this i bought a new MOBO and gave that a try. After I started it for the first time I was surprised at how much smoother it would run...up until windows and that's when it BSOD'ed again. After forking out the extra cash i was a little mad but i will get over it. Now I know that its not the MOBO, the HD since i tried a 750 gig instead of the 150 raptor I had in it, the Ram since I tried both of them so I was a little lost as to what to do next. Then I tried running only 1 stick of the crucial instead of it running in Dual Channel. This worked!!! But the only problem is I do not want to have to run 2 gigs of single channel instead of 4 gigs of Crucial Ballistics Tracer in Dual Channel. So no we know that if we want a successful boot then I am going to have to run the crucial ram and not the Dominator. This led me to believe that the Dominator didn't like the motherboard and that the crucial had a bad stick...until I tried running only 1 stick of the Domintator. This also worked. I cannot run dual channel memory in my new motherboard or my old motherboard. So now I have 2 MOBO's sitting around and neither of them will run anything in dual channel. Also, i tried replacing the video card with another that is the exact same model because I was running them in SLI but i soon parted them out to have 2 nice computers I also did Memtest and it came back clean so in all I have done the fallowing memory tests:
Dual Channel Crucial: FAIL
Corsair: FAIL
Single stick Crucial: PASS
Corsair: PASS
Flex Memory: Pass
2 different type sticks in single channel
Crucial:FAIL
Corsair: FAIL
Dual Channel Interleaved: FAIL
So this is where I stand..there is only a couple of things that I have not tried replacing and that is the Processor and power supply. I figure it could be the Processor because the chances of having bad memory twice is very slim. I really am clueless as to what to do from here. If I have to buy new ram I can and If i have to buy a new processor then i can do that also but i really dont want to have to do both because money doesnt grow on trees and a car doesnt pay for itself. If you can help please let me know. Thanks!
Sorry, i should have stated that also...I did adjust all of the above...I bumped the voltage up to the recommended 2.0v and the timings to 4-4-4-12 also. This would make a difference in the beginning but not now. I could adjust the voltage before and it would let me get a little bit further into windows but then it would crash. Then, after it would crash I could set the voltage back down to what it defaults 2 and it would boot fine for a little while and then crash. I think its fubared. When I put the Dominator Ram in it, it will turn on....wait about 6 seconds and then turn off. Then about 2 seconds later it will turn back on again.
I think the recommended for DDR3 on a Core2 system is now up to 2.1-2.2V, although I for one would never go that high...
PSU could be going, but I don't think that would be the case if one stick works perfectly...Check BIOS settings and try less agressive timings or something. Maybe even underclocking the RAM a bit...
No expert here ,but, to me it looks like a software problem,neither Corsair nor Crucial are known for bad ram,"memory management" looks like software,have you tried each stick seperately in all of the slots,and 2 snafued mobo's hmmm.
Yes, I have thrown all of them memory in there....thats the Dual Channel Interleaved. I agree...I have always been a fan of Corsair and Crucial. The Interleaved failed when it got into windows again and showed up 1 gig of memory instead of 6
I have the exact same problem using corsair dominator in dual channel with Windows 7 x64.
Random bsod's and sometimes I even had another bsod (but I can't remember exactly what it was, but when I looked it up it was very clear that it involved a memory problem.)
I also removed one stick to check whether it was the ram and a little bit longer I had the same problem again a bsod memory management.
I placed the other stick in the same slot, and it worked! Until today, a few minutes a go I had the same bsod after let's say two weeks working flawless.
I think I'm just going to buy new ram but not 1066mhz anymore as I didn't really felt any difference compared to 800mhz.
What I might add though is that when I ran Windows Memory Diagnostic it sometimes found a hardware problem after a crash, and sometimes it didn't. In a few days I'm going to get new ram and return the corsair dominator 1066. As said in the replies I also think that it has something to do with DDR2 and using 1066mhz (which is imo a not so common used speed)
But coincidence or not I also have a Gigabyte mobo... detailed specs below
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-X48-DS4
RAM: Corsair Dominator 1066mhz (ddr 2) (using first 4gb and now 2gb)
CPU: Intel core 2 duo Q9550 2.83ghz
HD: WD (2x500gb) + (2x 1000gb)
VideoCard: Asus GTX 275 896mb
Yes, it turned out to be my memory the entire time. Imagine that. I thought the memory was known good however when i put a different memory from another pc in it from the local college it worked great.