Alright, I'm having a problem with my latest build (5th one), and i am not sure what is going on or what to RMA back. Here's the scoop.
Built computer and installed everything here for the guy, everything ran smooth as ever, he takes it back to his house and then starts having problems with windows recovering files, it'll BSOD on him frequently, and even randomly restart in the middle of startup, but will occasionally make it all the way to the desktop, where sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt.
I met up with the guy, brought his computer back to my house, and did all sorts of different tests.. Here's what I found:
Memtest86 v 3.5 was ran and found 33 errors during test #1, (memory was in slots 1 and 3 in motherboard).
Removed 1 module (slot 3) and ran Memtest on 1 stick of ram...Passed
Replaced 1st module with the one that I had taken out and ran Memtest....Passed.. ?
Placed 2nd module in slot 2 (now one module in slot 1 and one module in slot 2), ran Memtest....Computer shuts off during testing (specifically at test 1 48% completed)
I moved around the ram into all the different combinations of slots and each seemed to fail, but it seems to pass on one stick alone, it doesn't matter what stick it is.
Here's the twist...
Placed both modules into mobo (slot 1 and 2), ran Memtest v 3.4 instead of 3.5....Didn't shut down at 48%complete(test 1), the test actually ran to completion, it took almost two hours, but the results came up with two errors during test #1. Not exactly what this means but it said:
Errors per memory slot: 0: 2
1: 0
After that, I started up the computer with both sticks and went to windows instead of Memtest, and everything seemed fine, I decided well lets throw that product key in, and after I hit enter the screen turned green/blue/red and froze for a minute, then went back to normal, said something about a graphics driver had failed ( haven't installed GPU driver yet). Then it seemed to just start having explorer problems again and eventually bsod'd on me again.
I looked on corsair forums and there was something about decreasing the frequency and increasing NB voltage, I did that, no change, except for the one time the computer didn't even respond when I turned it on, had to do a bios reset through motherboard jumpers.
Also when it does start up to windows successfully, often explorer will randomly stop responding and all I have is a nice view of the desktop w/ no start menu/icons. So... that's what is going on.
One more thing, Windows recognizes 4GB of RAM, so does the POST and the Bios, and during Memtest.
Here's the specs:
ASUS M4A78T-E AM3 AMD 790GX HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard65408035
CORSAIR XMS3 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TW3X4G1333C9
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor HDZ955FBGMBOX65408035
ZALMAN 9500A-LED 92mm 2 Ball CPU Cooler65408035
XFX P1-650X-CAG9 650W ATX12V 2.2 / ESP12V 2.91 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply65408035
XFX GX260XADJC GeForce GTX 260 896MB 448-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST31000528AS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Built computer and installed everything here for the guy, everything ran smooth as ever, he takes it back to his house and then starts having problems with windows recovering files, it'll BSOD on him frequently, and even randomly restart in the middle of startup, but will occasionally make it all the way to the desktop, where sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt.
I met up with the guy, brought his computer back to my house, and did all sorts of different tests.. Here's what I found:
Memtest86 v 3.5 was ran and found 33 errors during test #1, (memory was in slots 1 and 3 in motherboard).
Removed 1 module (slot 3) and ran Memtest on 1 stick of ram...Passed
Replaced 1st module with the one that I had taken out and ran Memtest....Passed.. ?
Placed 2nd module in slot 2 (now one module in slot 1 and one module in slot 2), ran Memtest....Computer shuts off during testing (specifically at test 1 48% completed)
I moved around the ram into all the different combinations of slots and each seemed to fail, but it seems to pass on one stick alone, it doesn't matter what stick it is.
Here's the twist...
Placed both modules into mobo (slot 1 and 2), ran Memtest v 3.4 instead of 3.5....Didn't shut down at 48%complete(test 1), the test actually ran to completion, it took almost two hours, but the results came up with two errors during test #1. Not exactly what this means but it said:
Errors per memory slot: 0: 2
1: 0
After that, I started up the computer with both sticks and went to windows instead of Memtest, and everything seemed fine, I decided well lets throw that product key in, and after I hit enter the screen turned green/blue/red and froze for a minute, then went back to normal, said something about a graphics driver had failed ( haven't installed GPU driver yet). Then it seemed to just start having explorer problems again and eventually bsod'd on me again.
I looked on corsair forums and there was something about decreasing the frequency and increasing NB voltage, I did that, no change, except for the one time the computer didn't even respond when I turned it on, had to do a bios reset through motherboard jumpers.
Also when it does start up to windows successfully, often explorer will randomly stop responding and all I have is a nice view of the desktop w/ no start menu/icons. So... that's what is going on.
One more thing, Windows recognizes 4GB of RAM, so does the POST and the Bios, and during Memtest.
Here's the specs:
ASUS M4A78T-E AM3 AMD 790GX HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard65408035
CORSAIR XMS3 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TW3X4G1333C9
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor HDZ955FBGMBOX65408035
ZALMAN 9500A-LED 92mm 2 Ball CPU Cooler65408035
XFX P1-650X-CAG9 650W ATX12V 2.2 / ESP12V 2.91 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply65408035
XFX GX260XADJC GeForce GTX 260 896MB 448-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST31000528AS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit