I have been banging my head against a wall for a long long time with my build and finally I believe I have the cause of my crashes narrowed down to memory.
I have four sticks of RAM. Two I bought with my build and since the beginning I've had these crashes. After a while a friend upgraded and gave me two more sticks. The crashes continued after adding two more, but didn't get worse (and didn't get any better either).
The original two sticks are ADATA brand and say this on the sticker:
"DDR3 1600G CL 9-9-9-24" and on the back "AX3U1600GB2G9-2G 10240373"
The two additional sticks are Corsair XMS3's
"CMX4GX3M2A1600C9 1600MHz 4GB (2x2GB) 9-9-9-24 ver 2.3"
Now, under stress testing using Prime 95, the four of them together freeze my system, same as the system crashes I get during games and other programs, which is a frozen screen and sound looped requiring hard reboot. This was also true when it was just the two ADATA's.
However recently, thanks to this awesome community, I learned that this problem might be memory related and I took out all sticks but one and stress tested each one individually, all in the same slot on the mobo. Only one froze my system (strangely one of the Corsairs).
My queston is: is this stick inherently faulty beyond remedy? Throw it in the trash? Or can I manually set voltages, speeds, etc. to get the set to work together.
If so, how?
If not, can the three work together, or even two of the three? Do I have to change settings for this to happen? (remember that the problems occurred before I even got the Corsair sticks)
Thanks for reading the long post and please help if you can.
I have four sticks of RAM. Two I bought with my build and since the beginning I've had these crashes. After a while a friend upgraded and gave me two more sticks. The crashes continued after adding two more, but didn't get worse (and didn't get any better either).
The original two sticks are ADATA brand and say this on the sticker:
"DDR3 1600G CL 9-9-9-24" and on the back "AX3U1600GB2G9-2G 10240373"
The two additional sticks are Corsair XMS3's
"CMX4GX3M2A1600C9 1600MHz 4GB (2x2GB) 9-9-9-24 ver 2.3"
Now, under stress testing using Prime 95, the four of them together freeze my system, same as the system crashes I get during games and other programs, which is a frozen screen and sound looped requiring hard reboot. This was also true when it was just the two ADATA's.
However recently, thanks to this awesome community, I learned that this problem might be memory related and I took out all sticks but one and stress tested each one individually, all in the same slot on the mobo. Only one froze my system (strangely one of the Corsairs).
My queston is: is this stick inherently faulty beyond remedy? Throw it in the trash? Or can I manually set voltages, speeds, etc. to get the set to work together.
If so, how?
If not, can the three work together, or even two of the three? Do I have to change settings for this to happen? (remember that the problems occurred before I even got the Corsair sticks)
Thanks for reading the long post and please help if you can.