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Asus Motherboard Killing my Ram

ComputerWizKid

ComputerWizKid

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I have an Asus M4A785-M and I am having to constantly RMA or replace my memory (Expensive DDR2:wub🙂 I don't know what to do now as the computer is down for the thrid time and Memtest is throwing errors after about 10 Seconds (I did let it run one pass though)
I have Crucial Balistic 2x2GB DDR2 800MHZ and everything in the BIOS is at Auto or default (I am not an expert when it comes to BIOS and I was told if I don't know what it is leave it alone)

Anyway should I RMA the board and the RAM? or is it something I am doing to the computer

Here are the current Specs of the computer
Asus M4A4785-M
AMD Athlon II x4 635
Crucial Ballistic 2x2GB DDR2 800MHZ
Seagate 500GB SATA II
NEC ND-3550A
Lite-On SOHR-5238S
Card reader pulled from an old HP
Antec Earthwatts EA-430D
Windows 7 Home Premium x64


I am at a loss here I don't know weather to replace the board with a similar model that uses DDR3 or just RMA both and hope to get back working parts


and if I should upgrade the board what Make/Model Should I get?
I was thinking the M4A88T but I am open to all suggestions
Thanks
 
The rams voltage is 1.8V
and I am unsure of what the board is auto setting to
It has something in the BIOS screen that says ram overvolt Default 1.5V maximum 2.3V and when I select 1.8V the letters turn yellow so I assumed that is bad so I left it at the default of 1.5V
 
ComputerWizKid said:
The rams voltage is 1.8V
and I am unsure of what the board is auto setting to
It has something in the BIOS screen that says ram overvolt Default 1.5V maximum 2.3V and when I select 1.8V the letters turn yellow so I assumed that is bad so I left it at the default of 1.5V
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Your RAM is undervolted .3V, which I think could definitely cause instability. Set it to 1.8v and run memtest again.
 
Strange that the bios would even let you try to run the ram at 1.5V since I know of no DDR2 that can run down there.
 
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