Is my MOBO or RAM Dying ?

[D4rkParadise7]

Hello, I got a pretty old PC and I started to get some bsod lately all of them representing memory issue....
My PC spec
CPU-Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300
Motherboard-ASRock G41M-GS3
RAM-Geil 2x4GB DDR3 1333MHz CL9
GPU-NVIDIA GeForce GT 430

How you can see I got 2 ram stick of 4 GB but everywhere I look even in bios is said one stick is 4gb and the other is 8gb..... A total of 12 GB and I believe maybe that is the problem... even if is showing 12gb for a long time now... and I think Is more because of motherboard then ram because if I swap the stick between the slot 2 is always saying is 8gb.
Any Idea if my MOBO or RAM are dying ?


Thank you for your time in helping me.

 

[Pentium4User]

Ok your board shouldn't be the problem now your saying you have 2 sicks of 4gb ram or 8gb ram now I assuming you know that that board supports up to 8gb ram only. Now if you have 1 sick of 8gb and 4gb and when you switch them and the first ram slot said it was 4gb for the one ram and when you put the other stick in that ram slot that it showed 8gb in that slot then your board second ram slot may be dead.

 

[D4rkParadise7]

The only place where memory look ok, I mean 2x4gb is from Speccy..... take a look: http://i.imgur.com/EtfSo5y.png

 

[cin19]

I think your MB sensor may have problem, I mean it does not have the right driver.
You should update the intel chipset driver https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/20018/INF-Update-Utility-Primarily-for-Intel-6-5-4-3-900-Series-Chipsets-Zip-Format?product=46645 or even the BIOS too.
After done the update, clear the CMOS by removing the battery or the jumper, boot into the BIOS and you will see whatever the RAM is. If either RAM or MB is going to die, your PC will run unstable, like freeze, reboot, etc.

 

[D4rkParadise7]

I think your MB sensor may have problem, I mean it does not have the right driver.
You should update the intel chipset driver https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/20018/INF-Update-Utility-Primarily-for-Intel-6-5-4-3-900-Series-Chipsets-Zip-Format?product=46645 or even the BIOS too.
After done the update, clear the CMOS by removing the battery or the jumper, boot into the BIOS and you will see whatever the RAM is. If either RAM or MB is going to die, your PC will run unstable, like freeze, reboot, etc.

Did what you said and things look all right now even in bios both slots show 4gb..... I hope this will fix all my issues.