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Here’s the deal with my situation.
I'm running 2x2GB of RAM, where the first stick is a Crucial 667 MHz and the second one is a Kingston 800 MHz. Ever since I slapped that second stick in, my whole system just freezes up and dies every couple of days, throwing a Blue Screen of Death and an error message at me. This only happens while I'm gaming, and before I added this extra RAM, the game ran perfectly fine for over a year. To be clear, the RAM itself is fine. I've already done the defrag and cleared the registry, plus I used CCleaner and disk cleanup, and there isn't a single virus on this machine.
I should mention that about two years ago, I also picked up some 800 MHz RAM because I couldn't find any more of that Crucial 667 MHz stuff, and I had the exact same issue, just more frequently. I ended up selling them because I figured they weren't compatible back then.
The motherboard I'm using is this: http://www.asus.com/products/pro...px?pid=2695#ov it supports DDR2 up to 1066 MHz, has 4 slots, and goes up to 16GB total, so you can't blame the board.
I have no clue what the BIOS settings for the RAM should actually look like. I just tried something a moment ago where I pulled the CMOS battery out of the motherboard, waited five minutes, put it back in, and fired up the PC. The date in Windows defaulted back to 1/1/2008. It doesn't show the startup messages anymore, but when it lists the CPU GHz and the RAM, it shows 667 MHz instead of 533 MHz, though it says 64-bit now instead of 128-bit if I remember correctly. Also, the processor is sitting at 2.2 GHz per core instead of the 2.7 it was at, and at 2.9 it would just crash. Basically, I just reset the BIOS.
The RAM is running in dual channel. Here are some fresh CPU-Z screenshots:
http://www.zaslike.com/files/8oy3dat2qwpn4rp61nr.jpg
http://www.zaslike.com/files/91gh0h15n7ual4eqcktt.jpg
http://www.zaslike.com/files/505qsa2w97twoeezhq7.jpg
http://www.zaslike.com/files/r30rwklzpu8q9ryh2lk3.jpg
I'm running 2x2GB of RAM, where the first stick is a Crucial 667 MHz and the second one is a Kingston 800 MHz. Ever since I slapped that second stick in, my whole system just freezes up and dies every couple of days, throwing a Blue Screen of Death and an error message at me. This only happens while I'm gaming, and before I added this extra RAM, the game ran perfectly fine for over a year. To be clear, the RAM itself is fine. I've already done the defrag and cleared the registry, plus I used CCleaner and disk cleanup, and there isn't a single virus on this machine.
I should mention that about two years ago, I also picked up some 800 MHz RAM because I couldn't find any more of that Crucial 667 MHz stuff, and I had the exact same issue, just more frequently. I ended up selling them because I figured they weren't compatible back then.
The motherboard I'm using is this: http://www.asus.com/products/pro...px?pid=2695#ov it supports DDR2 up to 1066 MHz, has 4 slots, and goes up to 16GB total, so you can't blame the board.
I have no clue what the BIOS settings for the RAM should actually look like. I just tried something a moment ago where I pulled the CMOS battery out of the motherboard, waited five minutes, put it back in, and fired up the PC. The date in Windows defaulted back to 1/1/2008. It doesn't show the startup messages anymore, but when it lists the CPU GHz and the RAM, it shows 667 MHz instead of 533 MHz, though it says 64-bit now instead of 128-bit if I remember correctly. Also, the processor is sitting at 2.2 GHz per core instead of the 2.7 it was at, and at 2.9 it would just crash. Basically, I just reset the BIOS.
The RAM is running in dual channel. Here are some fresh CPU-Z screenshots:
http://www.zaslike.com/files/8oy3dat2qwpn4rp61nr.jpg
http://www.zaslike.com/files/91gh0h15n7ual4eqcktt.jpg
http://www.zaslike.com/files/505qsa2w97twoeezhq7.jpg
http://www.zaslike.com/files/r30rwklzpu8q9ryh2lk3.jpg