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RAM Memory issues in FSX

jmig

jmig

SOH-CM-2025
The last several weeks I have been trying to do some comparison flight testing between two aircraft and I have started get BSODs. At first I thought it was my 8800GT card getting weak. The crashes would either be a page fault or reference the Nv4.dll.

So, last night I swapped out my card with a 4870 1GB card I had in a different computer (had to swap power supplys also :banghead: ) Lo and behold, I had not taken off with my test aircraft when BSOD again. I was using the latest and greatest ATI driver program. It referenced an ATI dll on crash.

Did some online research and ran memory tests all of last night. It is showing errors on the 0 slot. Now, that memory isn't more than six months old. It is hi-quality (read expensive) memory which I replaced when I O/Ced my computer because I was having memory issues with the previous memory, again quality memory.

Does this stuff go bad like milk left out on the counter over night? Did the O/Cing shorten its life? I don't recall overclocking the memory, but that was six months ago and my organic memory ain't what it use to be either.
 
Overclocking can shorten a component's lifespan...or not. It mostly comes down to luck whether your Ram lives two years or two months when overclocked.

Why don't you just take a look into the BIOS and take a look at the settings for the Ram?
If the timings, bus speed or voltage aren't standard values, you've overclocked; if they are you didn't.
 
I would fault the OC of your system possibably...

Did you set the ram voltage to the recomended settings?
 
harleyman said:
I would fault the OC of your system possibably...

Did you set the ram voltage to the recomended settings?
Click to expand...

Yeah, it seems to be in the over-clocking. When I reinstalled everything, the O/C may not be agreeing with the OS. I will redo the O/Cing and see.
 
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