Ram crashing comp... went from 9k erros to 2 in memtest....

[HoMeZ]

Hi I have an Epox 8rda+ mobo with 1700+ tbred b week 12 chip.... I o/c'ed it to 166x12 and it starts crashing in windows. Now I know htis means it's not stable, but I don't want to take it down a notch so I was wondering if increasing vcore would stop the crashes.

 

[bjc112]

Yep, your on the right track... First increase your Vcore and your Vdimm for the memory (2.7v)

That should solve your problems... Then push for more!



How are your temps?

What size PSU?

 

[pillage2001]

Be wary of your temps too if you're increasing the vcore.

 

[HoMeZ]

Originally posted by: bjc112
Yep, your on the right track... First increase your Vcore and your Vdimm for the memory (2.7v)

That should solve your problems... Then push for more!



How are your temps?

What size PSU?

Channel Well 420W powersupply and my temps are like 35degrees C and how much should I increase the vcore and vdimm? And when I used sisandra maxpro3 it runs the first two cpu tests fine 10 times in a row, but it reboots when I run the two memory tests so I think it might be my memory...

 

[FFactory0x]

run memtest and prime. Up vcore to say 1.7 and try if nothing up vcore a little more or up vdimm to 2.7

 

[HoMeZ]

Would vcore help? cuz i think it's the ram and i'll try those tests ASAP (would they tell me if it's the ram? and these tests scare me sandra said it might kill my computer)

 

[HoMeZ]

I am running memtest86 now it's on it's 4th run test 4.. I have 9158 errors and I THINK they are all from test 5. I'm not totally sure on how to read this thing, but in the main screen I see tst and under it 5 pass under it 3 and then failed blah blah and so on. Now can someone tell me what this means and how I can try to fix my comp?

 

[zephyrprime]

You're ram is no good for some reason. Are you running pc2100?

 

[HoMeZ]

pc2700 would increasing voltages help?

 

[HoMeZ]

^^BUMP^^

 

[HoMeZ]

Update: I put the settings back to default for a 1700+ chip and I get no errors in memtest and with 133fsb and 12 multiplier i get 0 errors... I'm going to up the fsb by 5 and see when i start to get errors now..

 

[HoMeZ]

Ok after upping the FSB by 5 each time I got 4 errors in test 5 when I hit 163FSB I was fine until then.... I've upped my vcore to 1.65 now and retesting... can anyone tell me if i'm doing this right?

 

[HoMeZ]

Ok I'm back at 166 FSB and I have vcore at 6.5 and vdim at 2.77 I ran memtest and i got 2 errors on test 5 during pass 3 but it's up to pass 7 w/o any errors... is this a good thing or bad thing?

 

[infinite012]

if you get any errors then it could be bad. What brand is your memory? If it's no name then there's your problem. Giving it more juice may help it though.

 

[HoMeZ]

Samsung chips on 3rd party pcb and PNY ram