I will preface this by saying i believe 99% of answers are on google if you look hard enough...but from what i'm finding my situation is the reverse of normal. So i'm confused.
I'm running:
GIGABYTE GA-MA790GPT-UD3H AM3 AMD 790GX HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard
SAPPHIRE 100283-2L Radeon HD 5770 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card
AMD Phenom II X3 720 2.8GHz Socket AM3 95W Triple-Core Black Processor Model HDZ720WFGIBOX
G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-4GBNQ
Built in January of this year. Problems started in mid-April, ramped up current BSOD rate.
Over the past month or so, i've been averaging over one BSOD per day, and hadn't had time to deal with it. Well Sunday i finally got to sit down to get to the root of it.
Sunday
I ran memtest86+ for about 9 hours while i was away. Got over 26,000 errors. Went to bed thinking of what to do.
Yesterday
-Opened the computer and reseated both RAM, along with power cords and everything else (not the CPU though). Ran memtest for 8 minutes...got massive loads of errors, so i stopped it.
-I noticed that i had mis-entered one of the timings for the RAM, so i fixed it. Ran memtest again. 8 minutes later i had hundreds of errors, i stopped it again.
-I double checked all settings in the BIOS. Finding nothing wrong, i decided to tinker since it was already screwed up. I changed the clock rate to auto (comp. chose 1333 Mhz, i had it set to 1600 manually) and switched from Unganged to Ganged. I started memtest. 8 minutes in i had no errors, but i wasn't sure which change made the difference.
-So i went back in and upped the clock rate to 1600 Mhz on the RAM. Ran memtest. Went to bed. I got up in the morning, and memtest had went 8 passes without error.
So here's the question:
Why did changing to Ganged make a difference? Isn't Unganged supposed to be more stable?
Things i didn't try:
1) Messing with the voltage. It was already set at 1.5V, just as the RAM was specified. This is in Auto.
2) Testing one stick at a time. That was next on my list, but i found no reason to try it since dual channel worked in Ganged mode.
Is there anything else i should try, or should i just leave it alone since it passed? Unganged is supposed to better, but if the performance upgrade is not worth messing with, i'll just leave it (assuming the BSOD's stop).
Thanks guys (and girls).
I'm running:
GIGABYTE GA-MA790GPT-UD3H AM3 AMD 790GX HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard
SAPPHIRE 100283-2L Radeon HD 5770 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card
AMD Phenom II X3 720 2.8GHz Socket AM3 95W Triple-Core Black Processor Model HDZ720WFGIBOX
G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-4GBNQ
Built in January of this year. Problems started in mid-April, ramped up current BSOD rate.
Over the past month or so, i've been averaging over one BSOD per day, and hadn't had time to deal with it. Well Sunday i finally got to sit down to get to the root of it.
Sunday
I ran memtest86+ for about 9 hours while i was away. Got over 26,000 errors. Went to bed thinking of what to do.
Yesterday
-Opened the computer and reseated both RAM, along with power cords and everything else (not the CPU though). Ran memtest for 8 minutes...got massive loads of errors, so i stopped it.
-I noticed that i had mis-entered one of the timings for the RAM, so i fixed it. Ran memtest again. 8 minutes later i had hundreds of errors, i stopped it again.
-I double checked all settings in the BIOS. Finding nothing wrong, i decided to tinker since it was already screwed up. I changed the clock rate to auto (comp. chose 1333 Mhz, i had it set to 1600 manually) and switched from Unganged to Ganged. I started memtest. 8 minutes in i had no errors, but i wasn't sure which change made the difference.
-So i went back in and upped the clock rate to 1600 Mhz on the RAM. Ran memtest. Went to bed. I got up in the morning, and memtest had went 8 passes without error.
So here's the question:
Why did changing to Ganged make a difference? Isn't Unganged supposed to be more stable?
Things i didn't try:
1) Messing with the voltage. It was already set at 1.5V, just as the RAM was specified. This is in Auto.
2) Testing one stick at a time. That was next on my list, but i found no reason to try it since dual channel worked in Ganged mode.
Is there anything else i should try, or should i just leave it alone since it passed? Unganged is supposed to better, but if the performance upgrade is not worth messing with, i'll just leave it (assuming the BSOD's stop).
Thanks guys (and girls).
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