lvasquezb Posted October 5, 2010 Share Posted October 5, 2010 Hi Everyone. I recently bought a new motherboard (Asus M4A87TD EVO) with TR3X6G1600C9. I check before the memory QVL of the motherboard and they say it's supported. I had problems installing Windows with the 3 sticks installed (several messages when "expanding files" saying that it couldn`t find some files). I tried it several time with several combinations of sticks-slots...same result. I was able to install the Windows with no problems at all when i only left one stick on the first DIMM channel. I installed all the drivers and used my computer with no problems. Then, when I re-installed the 3 memory sticks the pc became very unstable: BSOD with BAD_POOL_HEADER, SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION, and so on. The errors showed up after 10 minutes the pc started up. I tried to restore an initial restore point but still have the problems. I ran a memtest (memtest86+ most recent version) and with this 3 sticks it found severalerrors from 336MB to 2036MB so I tried taking of the first stick (and other combinations) with no luck. I tested each of the memory sticks individually (just one pass each one) and it found no errors, but the problem begins (and are detected by memtest86) when I use more than one stick. The exception code in the Window's event viewer: SYSTEM: some bugchecks (0x0000003b, 0x00000019, 0x0000001e, 0x0000007e, etc) and some Service control Manager errors. APPLICATIONS: some faulty applications (even svchost) mostly with Exception code: 0xc0000005. I have the lastest BIOS and drivers. I also tried setting the Voltage manually but no luck. I didn't configure any O.C. Is there anything else I can try? What could be the problem? I hope you can help me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackrat Posted October 5, 2010 Share Posted October 5, 2010 TR3X6G1600C9 is a triple channel memory kit designed for Intel systems. AMD systems use dual channel memory. Asus shows that you can use one or two modules but not three. They should not even show a triple channel kit for a dual channel mobo. Typical Asus... You may be able to use two modules without problems but there is no guarantee. Have you tried 1333 MHz. with 9-9-9-24 2T memory timings @ 1.65V ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lvasquezb Posted October 5, 2010 Author Share Posted October 5, 2010 Thanks for the reply trackrat. That seemed suspicious to me also...I'm almost new at this. I knew it wouldn't work in triple channel but I thought it was going to work in some way because they included it in their QVL list. I will try that configuration today at home and see the results. I hope it works. Thanks again...I'll tell you how it goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lvasquezb Posted October 6, 2010 Author Share Posted October 6, 2010 I cleared the CMOS yesterday and set the speed, timings and volts manually in the BIOS (1600-9-9-9-24 @ 1.65 V - just 2 DIMMs) and I haven't experienced BSOD or crashes so far. No problems on memtest neither. I have some friends with the same mobo and similar triple channel memory (3 DIMMs) working. I'm gonna try today if it works with the 3 modules. What timings and frequency do you recommend in that case. Any other considerations? Best regards and thanks again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackrat Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 You don't normally run three memory modules in a dual channel PC system. You run 1, 2, or 4 modules. Check the OM to see if Asus is supporting three modules and if so in what slots. I would not recommend using three modules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lvasquezb Posted October 14, 2010 Author Share Posted October 14, 2010 Last weekend I had the same crashes regularly with two DIMMs and those parameters so I tested the modules individually with memtest and this time it found 1 error on test 7 in one of the DIMMs, but just in one pass (I left it runinng all night). Does anybody knows what could be the cause of this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted October 21, 2010 Corsair Employees Share Posted October 21, 2010 That sounds like it may be memory controller related. Have you tried raising the CPU-NB voltage slightly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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