Hi there everyone, im new here and I happened to come across the site when I was searching online regarding this issue
I recently bought an Asus M4A88T-M motherboard for a mATX build using an amd phenom II x6 1100t cpu and 8gb corsair value ram (never let me down before and good performance for cheap price)
I put the system together and straight away I installed the 4 ram sticks and tried to install windows with no success. Every time I booted from disc it would freeze so I tried the most obvious thing and removed 3 sticks of ram only leaving 1 stick and windows installed no problem
Now this is where the craziness begins, everything was goin fine so I decided to install the other dimms and computer booted fine but then kept gettin BSOD every 5 or 10 mins. I read the manual and so on about the mem ok button and followed the instructions but still wouldnt work. I ran memtest countless times with just 1 stick in the system at a time and I got no errors whatsoever but I decided to change the ram out for som g-skill ripjaw 4x2gb sticks and everything worked for about an hour or so then suddenly the computer froze and all I could see was wavey lines. After that the computer would boot up fine but would never last more than 5 mins without freezing and showing crazy looking lines. When I tried to reboot after this happened the mem ok light would remain solid and the computer wouldnt post until I removed 3 sticks and left only 1 in
Yesterday I decided to swap out the cpu and try another one, I replaced the chip with an old Phenom II x2 550 of mine and everything is working fine with the 4 sticks of value ram installed. no crashes or anything and I have the phenom II x6 1100t installed in the computer I am using to write this which has an Asus M4A79XTD Evo motherboard and im using the g skill ram I tried with the other build and its working fine also so im pretty confused.
Does anyone have any ideas what could have been causing this ?
Also i forgot to mention i tried changing the PSU's and so on before i swapped out the chip but it was the same result, crashing and showing crazy lines
Cheers, Dandaman
I recently bought an Asus M4A88T-M motherboard for a mATX build using an amd phenom II x6 1100t cpu and 8gb corsair value ram (never let me down before and good performance for cheap price)
I put the system together and straight away I installed the 4 ram sticks and tried to install windows with no success. Every time I booted from disc it would freeze so I tried the most obvious thing and removed 3 sticks of ram only leaving 1 stick and windows installed no problem
Now this is where the craziness begins, everything was goin fine so I decided to install the other dimms and computer booted fine but then kept gettin BSOD every 5 or 10 mins. I read the manual and so on about the mem ok button and followed the instructions but still wouldnt work. I ran memtest countless times with just 1 stick in the system at a time and I got no errors whatsoever but I decided to change the ram out for som g-skill ripjaw 4x2gb sticks and everything worked for about an hour or so then suddenly the computer froze and all I could see was wavey lines. After that the computer would boot up fine but would never last more than 5 mins without freezing and showing crazy looking lines. When I tried to reboot after this happened the mem ok light would remain solid and the computer wouldnt post until I removed 3 sticks and left only 1 in
Yesterday I decided to swap out the cpu and try another one, I replaced the chip with an old Phenom II x2 550 of mine and everything is working fine with the 4 sticks of value ram installed. no crashes or anything and I have the phenom II x6 1100t installed in the computer I am using to write this which has an Asus M4A79XTD Evo motherboard and im using the g skill ram I tried with the other build and its working fine also so im pretty confused.
Does anyone have any ideas what could have been causing this ?
Also i forgot to mention i tried changing the PSU's and so on before i swapped out the chip but it was the same result, crashing and showing crazy lines
Cheers, Dandaman
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