Hello everyone. I believe I'm having a problem with my ram and I'm hoping you can help.
I bought a gaming rig on ebay without an operating system; installed the operating system myself without issues; rig did not come with a mobo cd, so I had to download all the drivers from the manufactuer's website. Unfortunately I only downloaded the ones I thought I needed until I had problems, after which I downloaded them all and used slimdrivers to verify. I believe my drivers are up to date (though I'm no expert).
I am OC on water cooling; no leaks and confirmed temps are excellent with speedfan. I was playing a graphics intensive game (Rome 2), when I receive a BSOD. I received several more BSOD that evening, sometimes when just broswing the internet.
I made sure drivers were up to date and ran memtest, which failed rather epically, leading me to believe my RAM is at fault. Blue screen view seems to confirm this: the BSOD I received were PFN List Corrupt, NTFS File System, Page Fault in Nonpaged Area, System Service Exception, Memory Management, and Pool Corruption in File Area.
According to the internet, my next move here would be to test the ram sticks and slots by removing sticks and trying different combinations until I have logically isolated the problem.
However, this is a watercooling loop, and the ram is nearly impossible to remove due to the reservoir. Perhaps a more skilled individual could do it, but I cannot with an acceptable degree of risk. I cannot drain and remove the reservoir for the same reason (in fact I took my rig to a shop to have it leak checked and filled as soon as I bought it).
My question is: is there any way for me to disable a stick of ram (running windows 7 64 bit) without removing it, both to re-run memtest to diagnose and as a potential workaround? I could easily go from 16 gigs to 12 gigs and not have any performance impact, so this would be a viable solution for me.
Thanks for your help.
Basic System Info:
Mobo: MSI MS-7751
OS: Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium
Processor: i7-3770K OC to 4.2
Ram: 16 gig Corsair Dominator DDR3 1866
Graphics Card: GTX 690
Please let me know what else might be relevant.
I bought a gaming rig on ebay without an operating system; installed the operating system myself without issues; rig did not come with a mobo cd, so I had to download all the drivers from the manufactuer's website. Unfortunately I only downloaded the ones I thought I needed until I had problems, after which I downloaded them all and used slimdrivers to verify. I believe my drivers are up to date (though I'm no expert).
I am OC on water cooling; no leaks and confirmed temps are excellent with speedfan. I was playing a graphics intensive game (Rome 2), when I receive a BSOD. I received several more BSOD that evening, sometimes when just broswing the internet.
I made sure drivers were up to date and ran memtest, which failed rather epically, leading me to believe my RAM is at fault. Blue screen view seems to confirm this: the BSOD I received were PFN List Corrupt, NTFS File System, Page Fault in Nonpaged Area, System Service Exception, Memory Management, and Pool Corruption in File Area.
According to the internet, my next move here would be to test the ram sticks and slots by removing sticks and trying different combinations until I have logically isolated the problem.
However, this is a watercooling loop, and the ram is nearly impossible to remove due to the reservoir. Perhaps a more skilled individual could do it, but I cannot with an acceptable degree of risk. I cannot drain and remove the reservoir for the same reason (in fact I took my rig to a shop to have it leak checked and filled as soon as I bought it).
My question is: is there any way for me to disable a stick of ram (running windows 7 64 bit) without removing it, both to re-run memtest to diagnose and as a potential workaround? I could easily go from 16 gigs to 12 gigs and not have any performance impact, so this would be a viable solution for me.
Thanks for your help.
Basic System Info:
Mobo: MSI MS-7751
OS: Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium
Processor: i7-3770K OC to 4.2
Ram: 16 gig Corsair Dominator DDR3 1866
Graphics Card: GTX 690
Please let me know what else might be relevant.