Blue screen when ram is set to XMP

[T3chmaN]

Hi!

I have a problem with my RAM, whenever I set the memory to the XMP profile, I get a blue screen whenever I try to start a game.

On the "auto" settings my ram is running on lower settings than it should - 1333Mhz instead of 1600Mhz. My ram is 2x Kingston HyperX KHX1600C7D3X1K2/4GX, that's 4x2GB. I checked the voltage, and it scales accordingly to the XMP profiles 1,65V, when it runs on "auto" the ram has 1,5V.

My specification is as follows:

- i7 4790K
- Asus z97 Pro gamer
- 4x2GB Kingston HyperX
- R9 280x
- Agility 3 SSD
- Corsair CX750M
- WD Black 500GB

Can anyone suggest a solution for this?

 

[SkylerJacobs]

Are you also overclocking your CPU?


try to set the values manually instead of setting XMP.

Change DRAM frequency to 1600Mhz
Change DRAM voltage to 1.65

 

[T3chmaN]

Funny thing... I can set manually to 1866Mhz and everything works, but when I set it to 1600Mhz it crashes

 

[Tradesman1]

Which set of Hyper X? The model #, some can be a bit flaky

 

[T3chmaN]

Ok - so the problems are back, so I'm back with more questions

@Tradesman1 - I got 2 sets of KHX1600C7D3X1K2/4GX

Everything was working fine for some time when I manually set the ram to 1600. No matter what I tried the XMP profile would not work. Yesterday my PC started to throw up a lot of different Blue Screens some of those were: "System_Service_Exeption", Page_Fault_In_Nonpaged_Area", and two others that were too fast for me to read... I Booted up memtest, and after 1 pass I got two RAM errors - tried to test which stick is the faulty one, but on each i had the same result. I've set the speed to "auto" - that made the RAM work on 1300Mhz, and there were no more errors or blue screens!

I really don't know what to do next with this, any ideas?

PS. I have contacted Kingston, and they will take the ram to test, and replace if it's faulty, but I don't have any spare memory, and I need my PC more than the additional 300Mhz, so I want to try every possible solution before sending the memory back.

 

[Tradesman1]

Try raising the DRAM voltage + 0.05 over spec

 

[T3chmaN]

Tried rising the Voltage, loosing the timings, and unfortunately I still get Blue Screens on everything except 1300 Mhz :/