jsheppard

Hello,

I have 2 sticks of 1GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2 6400C4 RAM. I am using a Gigabyte GA-G31M-S2L mATX board (2 ram slots, which will be referred to as A and B). I have run into problems consisting of blue screen errors that occur before Windows XP displays the login screen. I am using a legitimate version of XP and "Fail-Safe" BIOS settings (no overclocking).

I have ran a memtest86+ test on both of the memory modules inserted at the same time. They passed 50 tests together. I have not yet run them separately as it did not seem necessary.

To troubleshoot, I spent awhile testing various RAM configurations. To test them for blue screen errors, I just turned on the computer to let it load XP.

When I had RAM 1 and 2 in slots A and B, respectively, 6 out of 10 tests returned blue screen errors.

When I then used only RAM 1 in slot A, I went 20 tests without errors. Switching RAM 1 to slot B, I went 20 tests without errors. Using only RAM 2 in slot A, I went 20 tests without errors. Using only RAM 2 in slot B, I went 20 tests without errors.

I then switched to RAM 2 in slot A and RAM 1 in slot B. I got 5 errors out of 20 tests.

Reverting back to RAM 1 in slot A and RAM 2 in slot B, I got 3 blue screens in the first 4 tests (and then quit testing)

Sorry if that is lengthy, but here's the summary. I only get blue screen errors with both sticks in. The problem seems worse when RAM 1 is in slot A, and RAM 2 is in slot B. Either way, whenever there was 2 sticks in, I saw errors within 20 tests. Whenever there was 1 stick in, there were no errors within 20 tests.

Is this a problem with the RAM? Or should I suspect faulty motherboard memory slots?

Thanks,

dai

check the ram voltage in the bios it may be set to low run it at 2.1v

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