RAM possibly causing BSOD?

[edlemur]

3 weeks ago, my pc was suffering from frequent BSOD. The BSOD started when i bumped my 8800 from 575core and 888mem to 580core and 900mem. I had been running at those speeds for a month with no problem at all. About a week ago, i solved it all by resetting all my BIOS settings back to their defaults. After a day of testing and almost a week of stable operation, i decided i would bring my cpu back to the speed i was running at before my BSOD incidents of 2.3ghz (basically matching my e6320 to an e6550). I tested for that day and resulted no errors. I ran at that speed for about 5 days. Then, i decided to bump my GPU from its stock 540/840 speeds to 550 and 866. I ran my pc again at those speeds for a day. But this morning, i was playing Call Of Duty 2 online. And it happened, a BSOD.

I reset my BIOS settings to default and set my GPU back to stock speeds. Right now, im still not sure if reseting my BIOS settings to default fixed the problem because i only reset about 3 hours ago. Usually, I would get them about 3 times a day. Im still ironically waiting for one. Ill run memtest86 today.

Although Ive only had BSOD in games, what leads me not to believe its not my GPU though, is the fact that the BSOD randomly reports something different as the problem every time. Out of probably 10 BSOD ive gotten with this PC, only one was an NV4 error.

Is this a RAM problem?

 

[edlemur]

does anyone have any suggestions?

 

[JustaGeek]

Do all your settings manually in BIOS, especially the RAM voltage/timings.

Manual Overclocking

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1066/800

VCore 1.3V
Mem Voltage 2.1V

4-4-4-12-2T - Essential

Memory might be 5-5-5-15 - it is RAM specific! But Command rate MUST be 2T.

Let me know how it works.

 

[Jschmuck2]

I dunno guys - sounds like your box doesn't like that GPU overclock. Try running with your CPU overclock in place but leave your GPU alone.

 

[edlemur]

Thanks for all the replies. I am running stable with my CPU overclock and manual timings at 5-5-5-12. for some reason, my ram was at 5-5-5-15. i had previously overclocked my gpu to that speed though, but brought it back down and didnt plan on doing those speeds again until i got my vantac gpu fans. i plan on leaving the speeds at 550/566 today.

 

[edlemur]

could i CD in a drive cause a BSOD. i only say this because now that i realize, its only happened when im playing a game that uses a CD

 

[JustaGeek]

Do you still have a problem...?

If you do, try a different CD/DVD drive, and/or different PATA cable.

Check the jumper settings on your CD drive, too.

 

[edlemur]

i have them both on CS

 

[JustaGeek]

Try the jumpers on Master and Slave then...