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MagikLair

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Hello,
I got some new memory for Christmas. It seemed to be working okay, but just recently my PC wouldn't boot. It would take a number of restarts to get going. Something along the lines of Windows has failed to boot after X number of tries.. So there seems to be a problem with either my motherboard or memory. I did a scan test with memtest86 and here were the results. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!
Brian

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Hi, please compare your memory timings and memory speed from your old memory with the memory you got for Christmas.

It may be that your memory timings are too tight or your memory speed to high.

You can set these timings in the bios.
Your slowest memory stick dictates the timings and speed for all memory sticks.
 
Hello,
so I have to adjust the my bios for the new memory? wasn't aware of that. Adjust them to the memory specs.
Any additional feedback would be great
Brian
 
MagikLair said:
Hello,
so I have to adjust the my bios for the new memory? wasn't aware of that. Adjust them to the memory specs.
Any additional feedback would be great
Brian
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List your full system specs if you want help, my mind reading is bad cause of my last job.
 
MagikLair said:
Hello,
so I have to adjust the my bios for the new memory? wasn't aware of that. Adjust them to the memory specs.
Any additional feedback would be great
Brian
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If this a name-brand computer (Lenovo, HP, Gateway, etc) you will not need to make and BIOS adjustments.
 
My system specs
Windows 7 ultimate
CPU: AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core
Board: ASRock 990FX Extreme3
Memory: [8 X 2] 16 GB Crucial Ballistix

I asked crucial about changing settings in the bios. The tech guy said should be fine on auto and if having issues. Update your bios. So that's something I could probably try.. any feedback would be great and thanks everyone so far.
Hopefully can get this figured out
 
MagikLair said:
Memory: [8 X 2] 16 GB Crucial Ballistix

I asked crucial about changing settings in the bios. The tech guy said should be fine on auto and if having issues. Update your bios. So that's something I could probably try.. any feedback would be great and thanks everyone so far.
Hopefully can get this figured out
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Do not update your BIOS while using any unreliable memory or your computer could become bricked.

Crucial Ballistix memory is now very low quality and no longer made from Micron brand chips overclocked but Spectek chips, meaning recycled Micron chips that passed only lower quality standards than the Micron chips originally did. Not only that, but the Spectek chips are overclocked.

Memtest86 and Memtest86+ are not very thorough, despite being better than almost anything else that doesn't require special equipment, and if memory fails one of them, do not assume the memory is all right if it passes the other.
 
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bryanl said:
Crucial Ballistix memory is now very low quality and no longer made from Micron brand chips overclocked but Spectek chips, meaning recycled Micron chips that passed only lower quality standards than the Micron chips originally did. Not only that, but the Spectek chips are overclocked.
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Hmm. How does that reflect on their SSDs? Are their SSDs using the lower-grade SpecTek NAND chips too (like some OCZs did, like the Vertex4 or Agility4, etc.)?
 
I own 4 x 8GB ballistix tactical lp. By far, they are the nastiest memory modules that I 've ever owned. The damn things are unstable at stock spd settings(speed and voltage) - no system OC. This product received high scores from reviewers all over the web, but it seems that retail products are just of bad quality. Although increasing the RAM voltage just a little (by only 0.03 over 1.35 stock) made them work nice and stable, they only lasted about 1 month. Then I started getting memory corruption back again.

Finally I got them working by just increasing the memory timings by +2(all of the stock timings) over the stock values. Somehow it seems that crucial marketed those at a latency of just 8 in order to look good on paper overestimating the real potential of the chips. I would advise you to try setting the memory timings at plus 2. Just switch to manual settings and increase the stock memory timings by adding a few units. It did the trick for me. The irony is that they are stable now even overclocked at 2000mhz(they are rated at 1600). It seems that all that I needed to do was to relax the timings a little and leave the voltage at stock values. Good luck!
 
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