raptor33 Posted September 6, 2009 Share Posted September 6, 2009 Hi All, I have recently built a new Core i7 920 rig using an EVGA x58 SLI mobo and TR3X6G1600C8 memory. When running the memory at 1600MHz I experience instability. after only a couple of minutes running linX I get a BSOD with error message page_fault_in_nonpaged_area. I have tried many things to fix this including: 1) using xmp profile 1 2) manually setting speed to 2:12 and rasing the CPU VTT and setting DIMM voltage to 1.65v 3) Relaxing the timings but each time I still get BSOD. I'm not OC'ing the processor - all other BIOS options are set to default. I then proceeded to test each DIMM separately. Using the settings in 2) each individual DIMM passed 20 times in linX without BSOD and also made it through 10 passes of memtest86+. I then tried using only two DIMMS. Again, this worked fine passing both linX and memtest. As soon as I added the third I was back to BSOD after only a few minutes of running linX. I have noticed that although I have set the DIMM voltage to 1.65, 1.70 is actually being used - is this normal? I also abserved this voltage when using the xmp profile 1. I really have no idea what to do next. Your help would be much appreciated. Thanks. Just wanted to add that I have flashed my BIOS to the latest version! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raptor33 Posted September 7, 2009 Author Share Posted September 7, 2009 I have solved this issue now - I set the VTT to +150 and the DIMM voltage to 1.60v - 20 passes on linX - loads more stable. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted September 8, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted September 8, 2009 NP Thanks for letting us know and the memory Voltage should be set to 1.65 Volts, did you try with the latest BIOS version installed to enable XMP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raptor33 Posted September 9, 2009 Author Share Posted September 9, 2009 Yeah - I did try the very latest BIOS prior to enabling XMP. I have informed EVGA and the guy there was not sure why the auto VTT was being set to +200mV. The reason I set the DIMM voltage to 1.6 Volts as opposed to 1.65 is because the MOBO increases it by some tolerance. When set to 1.65 the actual voltage is 1.70 - 1.71 Volts. Setting it to 1.60 actually offsets this tolerance and it performs as 1.65V. I figured running it at manufacutres spec is the best way forward!? Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted September 9, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted September 9, 2009 What are you using to see that Voltage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raptor33 Posted September 9, 2009 Author Share Posted September 9, 2009 I'm using Eleet. Also checked in the BIOS - matches the voltages shown in Eleet. Do you think I should have it set to 1.65V then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted September 10, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted September 10, 2009 You can try that and see but I suspect EVGA has seen some reason to set the Voltage +.2 Volts behind the scene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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