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Alright, so I just switched over from 4 gigs of g-skill ripjaws 1600 9-9-9-27 and installed 8 gigs of ripjaws 1600 7-7-7-24 RAM in my 790fx-gd70 MSI motherboard (Phenom ii x4 965).
With the old 9-9-9-27 RAM installed, my motherboard automatically detects that it is dual-channel, but with the new RAM, no such luck. I've tried each set independently, both at the same time, switching sticks between the sets, using only slots 1 and 3 on the board, etc. I ran memtest x86+ with no errors. I've both manually and automatically set all timings for the ram in my BIOS as well with no luck. (Auto-detects the proper 1600 as well) The voltage is confirmed to be correct. I can locate no options to force dual-channel in my BIOS (which was recently updated).
Occasionally the computer BSODs, though I installed a new SSD at the time which has already been confirmed with tests to have several failed sectors that have been re-allocated. I suspect the hard drive much more than the ram because of these test results for the blue screens. When debugging the minidump files , the windows core process is what was failing.
Am I missing anything in my RAM testing / Configurations?
With the old 9-9-9-27 RAM installed, my motherboard automatically detects that it is dual-channel, but with the new RAM, no such luck. I've tried each set independently, both at the same time, switching sticks between the sets, using only slots 1 and 3 on the board, etc. I ran memtest x86+ with no errors. I've both manually and automatically set all timings for the ram in my BIOS as well with no luck. (Auto-detects the proper 1600 as well) The voltage is confirmed to be correct. I can locate no options to force dual-channel in my BIOS (which was recently updated).
Occasionally the computer BSODs, though I installed a new SSD at the time which has already been confirmed with tests to have several failed sectors that have been re-allocated. I suspect the hard drive much more than the ram because of these test results for the blue screens. When debugging the minidump files , the windows core process is what was failing.
Am I missing anything in my RAM testing / Configurations?
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