Memory BSOD and more

nbianchi92

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Mar 21, 2016
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So here is the story, I just recently installed a geforce navidia 980 ti superclock 6gb to my pc. I had it for about two weeks now and all of sudden I was getting a Memory management BSOD. Right off the bat I thought ram so i did the basic stuff i read. cmd scan for bad files, memory test through windows 7 (Scans showed all green lights), then manually remove, inspect, and clean the RAM. still getting BSOD. I could trigger this by watching youtube after a while. My next thought well maybe its the card, it is the only thing different to my pc recently. Maybe something with the drivers. I uninstalled everything driver related with the card and It seem to work but then after a while i got the BSOD. So i went back to the RAM. Maybe these scans are not finding the problem. So i run 16gb DDR3 Corsair vengence sticks. 4 x 4. I pulled two. Havent had a BSOD since. Maybe I got lucky and pulled the right one out. New problem occurs now where i start the computer and it shuts off then back on. leds, fan, hdd. On, off, and back on. It was telling me that i failed to operate superclock. I dont superclock anything but i understand that my gpu is. So then im back pointing fingers at my card. Went to BIOS change from performance settings to normal. no more superclock warning which required me to go through my BIOS to boot. So my next thing was to test my card. I know there are many programs to run that but i thought lets just run it on a normal scenario and just play some video games. So I played The division for three hours. That game has a lot of visuals to render and it constantly changes. Thought it would be a "fun" stress test. I had a gpuz on the other monitor to watch. Everything ran perfectly fine. So I've kind of pushed the card aside. So now I'm sitting with this: I went from 16gbs to 8gbs ram and uninstalled drivers for my gpu. No more BSOD memory management. Had superclock error on boot up but changes in bios settings and no longer shows warning. Now my pc boots, shuts of once, and then back up and runs just fine. After the story my question is: was it right to pull the ram out? could it have been a bad stick? Could it still be my card? how can i get rid of this double boot up process thats happening?

On a side note alot of forums pointed towards ram. This is old ram 4-5 years. When I looked in my bios the voltage it was pulling was 1.495 set at 1.5 could it be that its pulling to much off the start and then the second boot is pulling properly?