Dell Studio 1569 Crash after new ram

[shadowwolf43]

I have A dell Studio 1569 machine running W7 home premium 64bit. It came with a 2x2 ram and I recently upgraded it to 2x4 and have 8gb now, the computers maximum. However now when ever I play minecraft, it crashes quite often. Today its done it about 5 times. I even bought a cooling pad so overheating is not the answer. It botos up fine but onyl when gaming or doing intensive activities. At first I allocated 4gb to minecraft however it still crashed. I then alloocated 3 leaving 5 behind and it still crashed. Before it used to crash when gaming but not as much maybe 2 a month. I had also updated the internal Graphics and the service pack when I got the ram so maybe I am frying the graphics.

 

[computer_nugget2]

if it crashes while trying to game, then it could be that the new ram is faulty. try inserting one ram dimm at a time and see if the game runs fine.

did your computer run fine with the old ram?

 

[Tradesman1]

What set of sticks did you get? Dell often uses DRAM with odd ball setting to try and get the customers to buy upgrades from them at highly inflated prices, which is in part why they seldom allow one to make adjustments in the bIOS to timings/voltages/etc

 

[shadowwolf43]

I solved it I think. I also bought a cooling pad the same day, as soon as I stopped using it I got no more crashes. I have no idea why