dead mobo?

2010-05-13 17:01:51

#1

TSI: Cholera in the time of love; +247|6239|Toronto

ASUS Crosshair IV Formula, running AMD Phenom II x64 @ 3.44 gHz (detuned)
RAM is OCZ AMD Black Ed. 2x2GB @ 1600 mHz

Basically, I can't run the comp on 4 GB. BSODs with "Page fault in nonpaged area". When it crashes, it can't start up again, not even POST. On 2GB it runs fine. I've tried both sticks individually in every slot, same result. Now, I'm pretty sure it's the mobo, simply because the sticks work fine individually.
I'm also running memtest as we speak.

I'm running W7 HP x64.

I like pie.

2010-05-13 17:09:22

#2

King_County_Downy: shitfaced; +2,791|6856|Seattle

Sounds like you are correct in your assumption.

I wonder if disabling the paging file would help. Probably not, just a thought really.

Sober enough to know what I'm doing, drunk enough to really enjoy doing it

2010-05-13 19:16:53

#3

TSI: Cholera in the time of love; +247|6239|Toronto

I managed to boot it once with the 4GB, lasted about an hour before the BSOD.

I like pie.

2010-05-14 03:56:58

#4

steelie34: pub hero!; +603|6640|the land of bourbon

actually it could be a couple different things. it could be your hard drive, but unless you can at least boot into safe mode, there's not a good way to test.

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2010-05-14 08:17:21

#5

TSI: Cholera in the time of love; +247|6239|Toronto

Well, just my luck. Been getting a new bluescreen with just 2GB (System service exception). Maybe it could be the RAM, my mobo did give a RAM error light.

I like pie.

2010-05-14 08:22:02

#6

SonderKommando: Eat, Lift, Grow, Repeat....; +564|6918|The darkside of Denver

I had a similiar issue w/ a 680i. woudlnt run 4gb dual channel w/o bsoding or not even booting. RMA that fucker.

2010-05-14 08:22:18

#7

Stubbee: Religions Hate Facts, Questions and Doubts; +223|7001|Reality

psu voltages ok?

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2010-05-14 08:25:38

#8

TSI: Cholera in the time of love; +247|6239|Toronto

SonderKommando wrote:
I had a similiar issue w/ a 680i. woudlnt run 4gb dual channel w/o bsoding or not even booting. RMA that fucker.

RAM too? My initial assessment doesn't seem to be valid anymore.

@Stubbee: yes.

I like pie.

2010-05-14 08:35:40

#9

SonderKommando: Eat, Lift, Grow, Repeat....; +564|6918|The darkside of Denver

TSI wrote:
SonderKommando wrote:
I had a similiar issue w/ a 680i. woudlnt run 4gb dual channel w/o bsoding or not even booting. RMA that fucker.
RAM too? My initial assessment doesn't seem to be valid anymore.

@Stubbee: yes.

with my issue i kept rmaing the ram, did it twice, issue turned out to be the mobo... what voltage are you running them at?

2010-05-14 08:45:26