[sswilson]

Originally Posted by garyoa1

Ok guys, riddle me this. New build. Vista business. Now, there is NO OC'ing involved. Just running stock

Gigabyte x48-dq6 - 4g crucial ballistix rated at 5 5 5 15. Which the bios is reading at 5 7 7 24 at default settings. (which memtest is also reading at 5 7 7 24) with a Q6700 quad.

Ran fine for about 3 weeks. Then BSOD started. Got virtually every BSOD error known to mankind over a few days and finally it was dead in the water.
Ok, dumped vista, swapped the HD out, got back to xp pro.
Withinn 3 days... same thing. Corrupted data.

FWIW, coretest shows idle at 48c. A bit hot but not near critical.

Ran memtest86+ .... instantly errors up the ying yang right from the get go with the 4 sticks installed. Pulled ram, started memtest with one stick. 8 passes... no errors. Switched modules... again, no errors. Rather than going thru all of the ram, just reinstalled xp with 2 gig. Few days... data corruption again.
Running memtest for 12 hours with the 2 gig... no errors. Replaced the 2 gig with the other 2 gig... overnight... no errors.

Data corruption continues.

Now, question is, since I got a truckload of errors instantly with the 4g installed and none with the two sticks, is it possible I have some bad memory slots, therefore bad Mobo? I have the two sticks in banks 0 and 2. Didn't try them in banks 1 and 3.
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These are the new single sided ballistix? Sounds like a textbook example of why folks are avoiding this latest batch of DDR2 Ballistix.

I'd bet dollars for doughnuts that changing the ram out will make all of the issues go away, but just to be sure... did you set the mem voltage up properly in bios? (probably needs to be 2.1V).