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BSoD when I'm playing a resource intensive game

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Gagan

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Hey guys

My computer keeps giving me a bsod then restarting when I clock up my 4 sticks of ram to 200 mhz to run at 1:1 on my Athlon X2 4800+

I'd like to know why I keep getting it when I"m playing a game and why the athlon can't handle the 4 sticks at 1gb x 4 on my SLI-DR Expert

Any help is appreciated

thanks
 
A little more information would probably get you a few more replies. Post the brand and model of your power supply, ram, video card, and sound card.
 
Check RAM using Memtest86. Also install two sticks and retest. Why would you want to run 4GB of RAM. Huge waste of $, plus you'll place a heavy load on the memory controller.
 
Why should I have to? This is the rates it should work at... I dont want to compromise anything for the amount I paid.
 
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Why should I have to? This is the rates it should work at... I dont want to compromise anything for the amount I paid.
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Because you need to debug it, that's why. If you don't debug it, nobody can help you and we can never get your problem solved.
 
I ran it at 2-3-2-8 and teh same thing happens

Man I am disappointed, is this due to the ondie memory controller of the X2? If so I'm just going to go P4 EE.
 
Changing the 5 to an 8 won't do anything. And no, the on die memory controller is far superior to the one on a motherboard. Try running it at 3-3-3-8, increasing the voltage, or both.
 
Running at 2.71V
Running 2-3-2-5 right now, I don't know why I should compensate timings, when I hit the clock down to ddr160 per stick(ddr333) with 2-3-2-5 it works just fine

seems like my POS cpu can't handle 4 sticks at 200 a pop.. why's that
 
Originally posted by: Gagan
I ran it at 2-3-2-8 and teh same thing happens

Man I am disappointed, is this due to the ondie memory controller of the X2? If so I'm just going to go P4 EE.
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I have to use a divider for my OCZ platinum and run it at 187mhz, doesn't want to work at 200mhz on my DFI board with my 4200+ X2, but it's not a major performance killer for an X2, it still way outperforms my Pentium-D's. What in the world are you doing that you need 4gig of ram anyway? 32bit windows won't allocate more than 2gb of ram to a program anyway(although some will work with the /3gb switch).
 
Loosen up the timings to 3-3-3-8, if that don't work, use a memory divider.

Edit: same thing happens to me, just max's out at a different speed. Mine will go up to ~255mhz, then they crap out no matter how loose the timings are. Luckly, I can run them @ ~255mhz (DDR510?) with 3-3-2-7 timings. Next thing I might try is 3-3-2-6 timings, but I doubt that'll work.
 
No I can't even run ddr400 at 2-3-2-5

I can only run ddr333 at 2-3-2-5

It's getting irritating man 🙁
 
How are you monitoring the Voltage to your ram? Have you tested your power supplies 3.3V rail with a DMM? Whats your power supplies 3.3V rail under load? Does the powerstream have pots that you can adjust your rails?
 
You're not even trying to fix the problem. You're just complaining. Take some action. If you try everything and nothing works, just RMA it.
 
I assume AUTO on my mobo chooses optimized settings and it clocks down to 333
I dont want a motherboard or cpu that can't handle 4 gigs at ddr400, so far the a8n sli32 and non 32 cannot,
and now this board cannot either and I'm beginning to think why OCZ guarantees a 2-3-2-5 timing @ ddr400 if they cannot do it with 4 dims

How is having 4 gigs unusual in this day and age
 
Originally posted by: Gagan
I assume AUTO on my mobo chooses optimized settings and it clocks down to 333
I dont want a motherboard or cpu that can't handle 4 gigs at ddr400, so far the a8n sli32 and non 32 cannot,
and now this board cannot either and I'm beginning to think why OCZ guarantees a 2-3-2-5 timing @ ddr400 if they cannot do it with 4 dims

How is having 4 gigs unusual in this day and age
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I think the problem is you complaining so much.

I think about 5 times already we said to try 3-3-3-8 timings and yet you still don't do it? I also think the problem might be running 4 dims which might be why you can't reach the fast timings.

Try 3-3-3-8 on 2T command rate with the 4 dimms. JUST TRY IT. What harm could it do?

And if your still not satisfied, then RMA them.
 
You have to go 2t on 4 sticks, so obviously I di that.

About the 3-3-3-8, still runs medicore and the same as the ddr400 2-3-2-5 whe nI'm not playing a game,

random restarts , I wake up in the morning with a WINDOWS FATAL ERROR box and a fresh restart...
 
Then I would RMA them. Try running 1 stick of ram at DDR400 at the 2-3-2-5 timings. Then try this for each stick of ram till you find a problem with one of them. Cause I doubt that all the sticks could be bad.
 
are you overclocking anything? cpu? video card?

and as other have said please stop whining. it is very well known that most boards clock down when all slots are populated. and 4GB is unneccesary. If you really need it, go Windows x64.
 
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