I have this motherboard.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157271
I have this RAM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231428
Months ago, I kept receiving BSODs on the first minute of windows start up. I reinstalled windows, and the BSOD happened during windows installation. I then used memtest and found one of the sticks to give me errors. I took it out of the rig, and the system was fine and stopped receiving BSODs. The system is still running fine and BSOD free, but I am on 4GB of RAM, instead of 8 because one stick went bad.
However, I was wondering if this was a motherboard problem that made the stick have errors. The RAM has a XMP feature and I never updated my motherboard's bios or got the XMP update with the motherboard. I was wondering if the RAM's errors is because of that or if it is just a dud.
The RAM is not on my motherboard's QVL list. I was wondering if I should RMA this RAM, if this problem won't happen again or if I should get a new pair of RAM that is on my motherboard's QVL list. Thanks.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157271
I have this RAM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231428
Months ago, I kept receiving BSODs on the first minute of windows start up. I reinstalled windows, and the BSOD happened during windows installation. I then used memtest and found one of the sticks to give me errors. I took it out of the rig, and the system was fine and stopped receiving BSODs. The system is still running fine and BSOD free, but I am on 4GB of RAM, instead of 8 because one stick went bad.
However, I was wondering if this was a motherboard problem that made the stick have errors. The RAM has a XMP feature and I never updated my motherboard's bios or got the XMP update with the motherboard. I was wondering if the RAM's errors is because of that or if it is just a dud.
The RAM is not on my motherboard's QVL list. I was wondering if I should RMA this RAM, if this problem won't happen again or if I should get a new pair of RAM that is on my motherboard's QVL list. Thanks.