System unstable m4A79XTD EVO/ Phenom II 965, please help

[PiousDevil]

This is my first serious build, and I may be in over my head, as I'm running into some serious stability issues. Blue Screen/memory dump pretty regularly, at seemingly random times (usually preceded by tiling in videos on iTunes or Blue Ray, firefox crashing, Windows 7 randomly disabling then re enabling the transparency feature.) Problem not triggered by graphics intense games such as Bioshock. As far as i've been able to determine all my drivers are up to date.

Windows 7 Ultimate

ASUS M4A79XTD EVO AM3 AMD 790X ATX AMD Motherboard

OCZ Agility Series OCZSSD2-1AGT120G 2.5" 120GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid state disk (SSD) - Retail

AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 140W Quad-Core Processor - Retail

(4 x 2GB) G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-4GBRL - Retail

XFX HD-489X-ZSFC Radeon HD 4890 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card - Retail

LG Black 8X BD-ROM 16X DVD-ROM 40X CD-ROM SATA Internal Combo LG Blu-ray Reader & 16X LightScribe DVD?R DVD Burner - Retail

Thermaltake W0116RU 750W Complies with ATX 12V 2.2 & EPS 12V version SLI Ready CrossFire Certified 80 PLUS Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply - Retail

[PiousDevil]

bump for some love.

[uscool]

Hi, I have also got this board with a AMD 965 125watt version, but just waiting for ram, its the 1600mhz CL7 one, have you updated the boards bios ? and also have you just left the ram at auto settings and see if its stable ?

[uscool]

just noticed you running at 666mhz which is 1333mhz, why dont you set it at 1600mhz in bios and also copy the timings in the second picture copy the XPM-1600 timings into the the bios

[PiousDevil]

Ram is running on auto settings. Haven't updated BIOS, never flashed before, not sure how to go about it and seems scary. Do I need to update the bios?

[uscool]

ya its easy just save bios file on a usb stick, go into bios goto Asus EZ Flash utility and update bios from usb stick, also i think your timings are wrong aswell.

http://support.asus.com/download/dow...Language=en-us.

guide in the manual how to update bios, you can also do it within windows

Thanks

[PiousDevil]

Ok, I set it to 1600, now the timing appears to be off (I believe the timing for this ram is 9/9/9/24. I'm not sure how to manually change that in the BIOS.

[uscool]

you can its in the bios something like dram settings or similer