Stable memtest but freezing/rebooting windows

[SycoraX]

Need some help here...

 

 

I can get into windows at around 240FSB (1:1), but anything above that causes windows to restart. Tried 245, 250, 260 and 265 FSB with either 8x or 9x multi and they are all memtest stable for hours, but not in windows. Tried 3x and 4x HTT. Running my RAM at 2.5-3-3-8 2T. My temps are great, never go above 40C full load. Any ideas?

[Guest edge929]

Welcome to the "memtest stable all-day but windows barely boots" club! I'll be your host Edge, while I take you through many, many hours of frustration and pain!

 

Seriously, many people are having this problem and for me, it took me almost a year to figure out it was my $300 dollar memory. My GSkill GBLE, using Samsung TCCD made my life miserable for 6 months. Thought it was my memory controller, thought it was my RAM, thought it was my mobo.

 

So, I RMA'd my board, got THREE different CPUs and finally different memory before I realized it was indeed my memory. But how is this you ask? It passes Memetest86, latest version, all day and night for a week...... surely you can't be serious. I am and others have had the same problem, many others.

 

The solution? Well the best solution is to test some other RAM, any RAM will do as long as it's DDR. Hell, find some old PC2100 and use a divider, that's what I did. Sure enough, I put a divider on the RAM and OCed my CPU/board/FSB as high as I could go and Windows was still SuperPI, PRIME, 3DMark, memtest stable.

 

Go figure.......

[Forgotten_Ronin]

Same deal except my culprit is Mushkin Redline! I'm so happy there's a club!

[SycoraX]

Welcome to the "memtest stable all-day but windows barely boots" club! I'll be your host Edge, while I take you through many, many hours of frustration and pain!

 

Seriously, many people are having this problem and for me, it took me almost a year to figure out it was my $300 dollar memory. My GSkill GBLE, using Samsung TCCD made my life miserable for 6 months. Thought it was my memory controller, thought it was my RAM, thought it was my mobo.

 

So, I RMA'd my board, got THREE different CPUs and finally different memory before I realized it was indeed my memory. But how is this you ask? It passes Memetest86, latest version, all day and night for a week...... surely you can't be serious. I am and others have had the same problem, many others.

 

The solution? Well the best solution is to test some other RAM, any RAM will do as long as it's DDR. Hell, find some old PC2100 and use a divider, that's what I did. Sure enough, I put a divider on the RAM and OCed my CPU/board/FSB as high as I could go and Windows was still SuperPI, PRIME, 3DMark, memtest stable.

 

Go figure.......

 

Heh.. that's definately interesting. I was planning on getting 2x1gb sticks anyway, so I guess for now I will just stick with lower FSB. Thanks a lot for a reply.

 

Btw, so the way I can get the most out of my system would be using a divider?

[ICON57]

try different settings on your ram 2.5.4.4.7 or 2.5.4.4.8, maybe raise the volts to the cpu up to 2.9

have you tweaked your other ram settings?

imho...i think your ram is fine, and you just need some fine tuning.

try looking in the oc data base for a rig similar to yours and see if you can try some of the settings used there.

gl

[SycoraX]

Hmm... I switched the RAM to orange slots, and seems to be quite fine right now. I ran prime95 blend test overnight, but it failed after about 3.5 hours @ 270FSB (1:1). Trying a little higher RAM voltage now, been running for a few hours..

[GunnerMan]

Yeah I have same problem I am tempted to buy 2 x 1 gig stix anyway to apease BF2s hunger.... I can run on a divider fine last time I checked and all other stuff I have in house is Corsair Value ram wich wont oc for crap, I know that.