Quote Originally Posted by lawrywild View Post
This is what happens when the motherboard is what's causing the failure, not the memory. You have simply pushed the memory controller too far. 975x is not good at clicking memory very high. I get this exact 'freeze' after aboout 925MHz DDR2 or so, my board is not a good one for memory clocking, some can go 1100Mhz but it's very rare. 1000MHz MAX seems about normal though.
I think you're right. I tried my known good ram and the same thing happened. Once I raised the NB voltage a notch it worked fine. Unfortunately, I ended up buying some replacement ram anyway. Not sure whether I should go for 4GB or just replace it.