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.