Quote Originally Posted by Pntgrd View Post
Well, I am a bit baffled by my system at the moment. I was running 4 sticks of Crucial Tracers with no problems for a few months. Then I had a stick die so I sent the set back for RMA. When I got the replacements, they were the single sided new ones. I don't know if they would have plyed well with my double sided as they were bad out of the box. I sent them back and got my replacement for the replacement yesterday, which are double sided. I installed them this AM and started off with a MemTest run, which passed with no errors. I booted into Vista and after a few minutes got a BSOD and reboot. I upped the MCH a bit and same thing. Relaxed the timings and same thing. I even tried running SPD settings with more MCH with the same results. SO I backed of the o/c but that didn't help either. I then tried Vista's memory tool but things passed with no errors there, also. I next pulled the new sticks out and reset all the voltages and o/c back to where they were. Things now were back to normal. I replaced the older sticks with the new ones and same result, works fine. Just to check if a slot had maybe gone bad I moved the sticks to the other slots. Things work just fine there. I now know it is not the sticks or the slots. What had happened that now keeps me from running 4 sticks of memory when it worked fine before? The only thing else that has been changed was I went to the 16.04 bios, up from the 14 during the RMA process. Could this be the cause?

what was the error code for the BSOD?...if it is auto-restarting right after you see the BSOD, you can take it out of the auto-restart so you can write down the codes...punch the code into the search engine...it will show you what is happening...i am guessing vista might be hosed...put the vista disc in and go to repair...if it detects a problem, it will rapidly fix it....could be a corrupted NTFS file index...just some ideas.

other options is to return to your previous bios or run a new setup for vista.