Leny Posted November 24, 2010 Share Posted November 24, 2010 By default the board has a dram bus voltage of 1.5v, and i am reading that the Ram has a voltage of 1.65. The ram is clocked at 1066mhz at the moment, i have run memtest86 and gotten 1 error in 12 passes. Are the bsod's and memtest issue related to the voltage settings, or is there a possibility that the issue is with the ram hardware/needs a rma? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted November 24, 2010 Share Posted November 24, 2010 Have you tried upping the voltage and seeing what happens? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leny Posted November 24, 2010 Author Share Posted November 24, 2010 It seems the voltage control is automatic on this mobo, and voltage upped to 1.64 resulted in instant bsod on startup screen, and bsod within a few seconds in desktop, so i reset that. I'm running memtest on individual memory cards in default setting to see if i have a faulty card or something, so far 1 card has managed 30 passes with 0 errors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackrat Posted November 24, 2010 Share Posted November 24, 2010 The CPU/RAM voltages are all manually adjustable on that mobo in addition to the "auto" detect settings. You may need to up the QPI to ~1.35 V. Some Intel CPU/mobos do not like RAM voltage above 1.5 V for some reason? DDR3 RAM has a 1.5 V default setting. Testing one DIMM at a time with Memtest 86+ should tell if there is any bad RAM modules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leny Posted November 24, 2010 Author Share Posted November 24, 2010 Memtest Results so far: Using all 3 modules: 13 pass ,1 error on pass 2 Module 1: 30 pass, 0 errors Module 2: 10 pass, 0 errors Module 3: *pending* I'm using the modules in the same dimm slots they were in the 3 module test. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted November 24, 2010 Share Posted November 24, 2010 Test all 3 in the same slot, not each one in different slots. That way you know you're testing on a good slot. With the way you're testing now, even if a stick fails you'll still have to retest twice, once with the stick in a different slot, and then with a different stick in the same slot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leny Posted November 24, 2010 Author Share Posted November 24, 2010 Result of the last test, 6 passes 0 errors on the last memory module, zero errors testing the cards individually but 1 error when using all 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leny Posted November 26, 2010 Author Share Posted November 26, 2010 After a bit of reading i think the voltages are probably the main problem, anyone able to suggest the voltage i should use? I am running sli if that is a issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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