ASUS P5N32-SLI Deluxe and OCZ Gold problems?

[Mawltar]

I use OCZ Gold Series 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM Unbuffered DDR2 667 (PC2 5400) Dual Channel Kit System Memory which I purchased from Newegg.com and I use the Asus P5N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard. My problem is that whenever I install both sticks of ram into the motherboard (in the two yellow slots, with 1 being the closest to the CPU), I get repeated random system restarts, blue screens, and crashes to desktop (especially while running 3d applications such as games). However, when I just use 1 stick of ram (either of the 2), everything runs perfectly both in slot 1 and slot 2 on the mainboard. As soon as I put i nthe 2nd stick and boot up, the problems start happening again. I have the timings automatically set in the bios, and when I set them myself to ( CAS latency 4, 4-4-4-12), the problems still occured when 2 sticks were in.

I spoke to ASUS, and they are saying it's not the motherboards problem. I was wondering if you could offer me any assistance.

System setup:

ASUS X1900XT
Intel Pentium D 950 3.4ghz Dual Core
ASUS P5N32-SLI Deluxe
Hard Drive
OCZ Gold Series 2GB DDR2 DDR2 667 Dual Channel
Athena 520W PSU

 

[ryderOCZ]

Of course they are going to say its not the motherboards problem, and I am going to say its not the ram's problem

The fact is though that each stick works fine....so how come 2 sticks do not? That issue should lie in the motherboard, not the ram.

Have you tried increasing the voltage to 1.9 - 2.0V?

 

[Mawltar]

no, but i will try that. couldn't that fry the ram?

 

[ryderOCZ]

No, you will be fine at that voltage.

 

[Mawltar]

The phone number on OCZ's website for tech support seems to be wrong. It goes to the voice mail of some guy named timmy....

 

[ryderOCZ]

His name is Jimmy, he works in TS at the office. However, the office is not open on weekends, so you get voice mail

What kind of Tech Support do you need, you can get support at the Official Support forum here: http://www.bleedinedge.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=45

 

[joemamasmurf]

I believe as stated above, if you bump the voltage up to 2.0v this will solve your problem. There seems to be a fairly common occurrence of problems with new Asus boards and OCZ gold memory, and frequently the problem has been solved by manually increasing the voltage to 2.0v or a BIOS update.