Model of the motherboard: Asus M4A87TD EVO
Model of the memory: 2 sets of G.Skill Ripjaw 4gb (2x2gb) F3-12800CL9D-4GBRL
Model of the CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz
Nothing is overheating, I got a program to watch CPU temp and GPU temp and both were under max operating temperatures at their highest, and my PSU is 780 watts.
What is the problem?
I bought all the above at once for a new build and have only had problems since. I have built a handful of computers for friends and a couple others with friends, so I know what's what and such but I'm no hardcore overclocker or anything.
When I first assembled it all and got it up and running, anytime I would do anything requiring my RAM to actually work, it would reboot. No blue screen or anything, my screen would just go black and then go to BIOS and boot up into Windows again. (Put out errors 6008 and 41 in windows event viewer)
I then started looking things up and found http://www.gskill.us/forum/showthread.php?t=7688 (while doing this I noticed that the stupid auto-overclocking software with my mb put my RAM to settings it shouldn't have been at, timings and voltage). I set my settings within my BIOS to the settings shown in method 2. After that it was running much much better, I got it going and transferred some files to it and such and it ran for a solid 9 hours until it did a random reboot once again. Wanting to be sure all my hardware is working properly before I can no longer get an RMA from newegg.com, I downloaded both memtest86+ and PRIME95 to run some tests and see if it held up.
I ran 4 copies of memtest86+ at once each with 1640mb of RAM tested. I let it go through to 100% coverage on my RAM (one passing). And everything held up fine with no errors.
Then I went to run PRIME95 and had a different experience. I attempted to do a Blend (tests "some of everything, lots of RAM") and it went for like 10 seconds and did the reboot thing again.. I ran some of the other tests in PRIME95 just to see if they worked and I started and let all of the other tests run for like 10 minutes each, and they didn't cause a crash, only the Blend did. Wanting stability I changed the settings in my BIOS to method 1 from the post above and I think I did something wrong because my BIOS had an error message saying overclock failed, so I changed it back to method 2.
And here I am, posting to see if any of you have any ideas or suggestions as to what the problem could be (between my mb, cpu or RAM). I am completely open to running any tests in finding what the problem is. I would greatly appreciate the help, thanks.
Model of the memory: 2 sets of G.Skill Ripjaw 4gb (2x2gb) F3-12800CL9D-4GBRL
Model of the CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz
Nothing is overheating, I got a program to watch CPU temp and GPU temp and both were under max operating temperatures at their highest, and my PSU is 780 watts.
What is the problem?
I bought all the above at once for a new build and have only had problems since. I have built a handful of computers for friends and a couple others with friends, so I know what's what and such but I'm no hardcore overclocker or anything.
When I first assembled it all and got it up and running, anytime I would do anything requiring my RAM to actually work, it would reboot. No blue screen or anything, my screen would just go black and then go to BIOS and boot up into Windows again. (Put out errors 6008 and 41 in windows event viewer)
I then started looking things up and found http://www.gskill.us/forum/showthread.php?t=7688 (while doing this I noticed that the stupid auto-overclocking software with my mb put my RAM to settings it shouldn't have been at, timings and voltage). I set my settings within my BIOS to the settings shown in method 2. After that it was running much much better, I got it going and transferred some files to it and such and it ran for a solid 9 hours until it did a random reboot once again. Wanting to be sure all my hardware is working properly before I can no longer get an RMA from newegg.com, I downloaded both memtest86+ and PRIME95 to run some tests and see if it held up.
I ran 4 copies of memtest86+ at once each with 1640mb of RAM tested. I let it go through to 100% coverage on my RAM (one passing). And everything held up fine with no errors.
Then I went to run PRIME95 and had a different experience. I attempted to do a Blend (tests "some of everything, lots of RAM") and it went for like 10 seconds and did the reboot thing again.. I ran some of the other tests in PRIME95 just to see if they worked and I started and let all of the other tests run for like 10 minutes each, and they didn't cause a crash, only the Blend did. Wanting stability I changed the settings in my BIOS to method 1 from the post above and I think I did something wrong because my BIOS had an error message saying overclock failed, so I changed it back to method 2.
And here I am, posting to see if any of you have any ideas or suggestions as to what the problem could be (between my mb, cpu or RAM). I am completely open to running any tests in finding what the problem is. I would greatly appreciate the help, thanks.
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