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!
PC Specs:
MOBO: GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P/EVGA 680i
RAM: 4 Gb Red Crucial Balistix Tracer/ 2GbCorsair Dominator 1066
Processor: Intel E6750 Dual Core 2.66
HD: WD Raptor 150 Gb/ Seagate 750 Gb
Power Supply: Thermaltake 750 Watt
Video Card: EVGA 8800Gts 320 Mb.
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!
PC Specs:
MOBO: GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P/EVGA 680i
RAM: 4 Gb Red Crucial Balistix Tracer/ 2GbCorsair Dominator 1066
Processor: Intel E6750 Dual Core 2.66
HD: WD Raptor 150 Gb/ Seagate 750 Gb
Power Supply: Thermaltake 750 Watt
Video Card: EVGA 8800Gts 320 Mb.