ASUS, RAM, "System failed due to CPU overclocking"

[Dashel]

Ok the facts:

Asus P4P800-E Deluxe motherboard.
Intel P4 3.0
1 gig (2x512) Kingston Hyper X PC3200 ram

This has been running like a champ for well over a year. No overclocking on anything.


I just purchased another gig of ram, again Kingston Hyper X 2x512, but it's not the identical model number as my original. It's still PC3200 however. Original 2 sticks are in slots 1 and 3 as they should be, and I put the 2 new sticks in 2 and 4. Now I'm getting "System failed due to CPU overclock". Eventually I can reload it to the point where I get to Windows and it show my 2 gigs of ram, but obviously there is an issue here.

I didnt change anything in the BIOS. No overclocking on anything, everything is stock. My question is does the RAM timing have anything to do with this? Any ideas what this can be?

Hopefully I'm being descriptive enough...

Any help is appreciated, I built this PC myself but I'm not hyper technical. Just enough to do the basics.

 

[mechBgon]

1) for something quick to try, remove the extra RAM, go into the BIOS to the JumperFree area and change the DIMM voltage to 2.7 volts, save & exit, then start the system and let it boot up. Now shut it down again, add the extra RAM, and see if that helped.

2) otherwise, try relaxing the memory timings (archived thread with detailed how-to)

3) if it still gripes, or has intermittent crashes and stuff, run Memtest86 to see if the RAM checks out bad in a pure non-Windows environment


Hope that helps

 

[Dashel]

Thanks Mech, I'll try this when I get home. Appreciated

 

[Dashel]

Upping the voltage to 2.7 seems to have worked! Thanks again mechBgon.