2 RAM sticks causing random restarts.

[venomxpress]

Okay. So while building my system I had gotten a 4GB Corsair Vengeance (ver 3.24). 2 months later I bought another 4GB corsair vengeance (ver 8.22), both 1600MHz. Then my computer started randomly restarting after a couple weeks. First it was only during gaming and then it started happening when using chrome. A couple of times, it even happened while I was watching a video on media player classic. So after a lot of troubleshooting I narrowed it down to RAM or PSU. So I ran memtest with one stick at a time. Test results passed. Then for some reason I forgot to put the other stick in and casually started gaming...to my surprise, not a single restart ever since...so I would really like your input on this...maybe you all know a fix for this?

Details:
Motherboard : ASUS M97 LE R2.0
CPU : AMD FX 8320 @ 3.5GHz
GPU : ATI R7 250X 2GB
PSU : Corsair VS550
OS : Windows 7 ultimate 64bit service pack 1

 

[Tradesman1]

Try raising the DRAM voltage + 0.05 to help the sticks

 

[venomxpress]

Try raising the DRAM voltage + 0.05 to help the sticks

I did..it was 1.50 and I raised it to 1.55...and still got random restarts.

 

[Tradesman1]

Try the CPU/NB voltage next, leave DRAM at 1.55 and try CPU/NB at 1.2

 

[venomxpress]

Try the CPU/NB voltage next, leave DRAM at 1.55 and try CPU/NB at 1.2

Okay I just did that. Will test it out by playing a few games and running some tests. Please keep this thread open. I will most definitely reply within the next 12 hours. Thank you

 

[Tradesman1]

No worries 😉

 

[venomxpress]

Sorry for the late reply, had to get some sleep. But, increasing the voltages didn't work. Got the restarts again. Maybe that stick is bad and memtest couldn't recognize? I don't know but this is one crazy problem.

 

[Tradesman1]

May be the sticks just don't want to play, let's try the CPU/NB at 1.3 (it's safe)

 

[venomxpress]

May be the sticks just don't want to play, let's try the CPU/NB at 1.3 (it's safe)

Did that and it restarted again after 30 minutes. Guess they are just not compatible with each other as you said. Will try replacing and test when I can. Thanks again


EDIT : I just checked in CPU-Z and noticed that one RAM has xmp 1.2 and the other has xmp 1.3 profile respectively. Does this say something about the problem?

 

[Tradesman1]

Different versions/models of DRAM, in of itself no negative effect

 

[venomxpress]

Different versions/models of DRAM, in of itself no negative effect

Oh okay...so is there any other solution? I am all out of options here but to run my system with just 1 stick of RAM.

 

[Tradesman1]

As mentioned earlier, they may just not want to play, this happens all the time, it's not a good idea to mix DRAM, sorry

 

[alkingtech]

As mentioned earlier, they may just not want to play, this happens all the time, it's not a good idea to mix DRAM, sorry

I have this exact same problem! I have 2x 8GB corsair vengeance. So i dont think its a compatibility problem. My pc works fine with one stick without restarting and ive tested both sticks and each work. I didnt start experiencing this problem untill i had some sort of power surge. A strange noise came from my power strip and shut down my pc. ever since i have been experiencing random reboots.