Hi,
I recently built a new pc. Here is my config:
Core i7-2600k
Asus p8z68-V LX motherboard
Corsair xms3 2x4gb ram dual channel ddr3
Thermaltake tr2 750w PSU
Evga gtx 480 GPU
A 3 year old Samsung 500gb hdd
Of late all my games would fail with "program stopped working" error. Some other applications would fail on startup as well. I ran memtest and sure enough there were memory failures. I removed one of the sticks and reran memtest and it was fine. As the failure happened just outside the return policy, I had to rma with corsair. Got new ram and again, I hit the same issues... I thought it could be the motherboard failure so I moved my good memory stick to different slots and everytime it worked fine. Then I went ahead and bought another memory pack from local store. Still the same issues. One stick worked and the other doesn't (I can't be that unlucky)
Is there something I am missing ? Is it my motherboard or PSU which is somehow damaging the ram. A this point I am very clueless. At some point I had also thought it could be that my hdd is too old for the system. But then there are memtest failures. But how can it be that a new stick from corsair or a dual channel kit I bought will have the same issues ?
Please help.
Thanks in advance
I recently built a new pc. Here is my config:
Core i7-2600k
Asus p8z68-V LX motherboard
Corsair xms3 2x4gb ram dual channel ddr3
Thermaltake tr2 750w PSU
Evga gtx 480 GPU
A 3 year old Samsung 500gb hdd
Of late all my games would fail with "program stopped working" error. Some other applications would fail on startup as well. I ran memtest and sure enough there were memory failures. I removed one of the sticks and reran memtest and it was fine. As the failure happened just outside the return policy, I had to rma with corsair. Got new ram and again, I hit the same issues... I thought it could be the motherboard failure so I moved my good memory stick to different slots and everytime it worked fine. Then I went ahead and bought another memory pack from local store. Still the same issues. One stick worked and the other doesn't (I can't be that unlucky)
Is there something I am missing ? Is it my motherboard or PSU which is somehow damaging the ram. A this point I am very clueless. At some point I had also thought it could be that my hdd is too old for the system. But then there are memtest failures. But how can it be that a new stick from corsair or a dual channel kit I bought will have the same issues ?
Please help.
Thanks in advance
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