retardedchicken
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I decided to reformat today, after I botched a driver update for my GTX 260, and the fact that i has been awhile since I have reformatted. When I go to boot from my windows CD, I would recreate the partition and load the files, but when I went to load from my HDD for the first time, I would BSOD on the load screen. After this I decided to retry the file copying process, and now this time when I was on the loading screen after the CD files were prepared, I would also BSOD. I had a similar issue before, back when I had 2x2gb Corsair XMS sticks, I found that I would only get BSOD's with both sticks in or one of the two sticks, so I returned those and got Patriot. Now, both of these Patriot sticks work separately, but I am still getting BSODs when they are in together.
They are supposed to run at 4-4-4-12, and I have been running them at those timings for awhile, but when I went to reformat I lowered down to 5-5-5-15 and still no dice.
As far as voltage, I have been keeping them at 2.2v, and my BIOS reports the voltage to be right on 2.2v (although I assume during the windows loading there is a decent voltage drop?). I tried 2.1 and no luck, but I am a little uneasy about trying anything above 2.2v.
My power supply is a Corsair 650TX, and I only have my gtx260, blu ray, DVDRW, HDD, 4 case fans, and 2x4" CCFL lights in the case, so 650w is easily enough for all of it.
What do you guys think about the issue? As of now I am leaning towards RMAing the pair/getting new ones, but if perhaps the issue lies within my motherboard/power supply that would be useless.
Either way, 2 bad sets of memory in 6 months sucks.
They are supposed to run at 4-4-4-12, and I have been running them at those timings for awhile, but when I went to reformat I lowered down to 5-5-5-15 and still no dice.
As far as voltage, I have been keeping them at 2.2v, and my BIOS reports the voltage to be right on 2.2v (although I assume during the windows loading there is a decent voltage drop?). I tried 2.1 and no luck, but I am a little uneasy about trying anything above 2.2v.
My power supply is a Corsair 650TX, and I only have my gtx260, blu ray, DVDRW, HDD, 4 case fans, and 2x4" CCFL lights in the case, so 650w is easily enough for all of it.
What do you guys think about the issue? As of now I am leaning towards RMAing the pair/getting new ones, but if perhaps the issue lies within my motherboard/power supply that would be useless.
Either way, 2 bad sets of memory in 6 months sucks.