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This is a question from someone who although has a relatively good grasp of PCs, does not know the various technical ins and outs of things so please bear with me...
While playing DCS recently I have been experiencing crashes and resulting windows errors reporting a 0x50 codes among others.
I've tested the gfx card with Furmark and Unigine Valley without issue. The CPU I've tested with Prime95 which does causes crashes with 0x50 codes that I've been told point towards memory issues. Using Memtest86 I get differing results that have left me confused!
I have a i5-3570K 3.4Ghz chip o/c by maker to 4.4Ghz with 8GB Corsair 1666Mhz RAM supplied by 2x 4GB sticks - CM3B4G2C1600L9 on a Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H MoBo.
Memtest reports them as "PC3-12800 DDR3 XMP 800Mhz 9-9-9-24" which confuses me as it says 1600Mhz on the label for each?
In paired slots 1 and 3 (marked DDR_1 and DDR_2 respectively) I get 1 error on Test 13 on each pass. When they are in paired slots 2 and 4 (marked DDR_3 and DDR_4 respectively) I also get one error per pass in Test 13.
When I test both the sticks on their own they both give error-free tests in all slots.
I have just tried putting a stick in each of the first 2 slots that have different colours so presumably are not dual channel compatible - (marked DDR_1 and DDR_3 respectively) and they have run through the test and given no errors whatsoever...
I am therefore completely stumped - is this now pointing towards a hardware error other than with the RAM itself and maybe with the MoBo instead??
My next move is to de-clock it back to default settings and flash the BIOS to a later edition and see if this helps but thought that I'd ask here first as this is the test which is reporting errors.
Sincere thanks in advance for any knowledge that can be passed my way.
Dave.
This is a question from someone who although has a relatively good grasp of PCs, does not know the various technical ins and outs of things so please bear with me...
While playing DCS recently I have been experiencing crashes and resulting windows errors reporting a 0x50 codes among others.
I've tested the gfx card with Furmark and Unigine Valley without issue. The CPU I've tested with Prime95 which does causes crashes with 0x50 codes that I've been told point towards memory issues. Using Memtest86 I get differing results that have left me confused!
I have a i5-3570K 3.4Ghz chip o/c by maker to 4.4Ghz with 8GB Corsair 1666Mhz RAM supplied by 2x 4GB sticks - CM3B4G2C1600L9 on a Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H MoBo.
Memtest reports them as "PC3-12800 DDR3 XMP 800Mhz 9-9-9-24" which confuses me as it says 1600Mhz on the label for each?
In paired slots 1 and 3 (marked DDR_1 and DDR_2 respectively) I get 1 error on Test 13 on each pass. When they are in paired slots 2 and 4 (marked DDR_3 and DDR_4 respectively) I also get one error per pass in Test 13.
When I test both the sticks on their own they both give error-free tests in all slots.
I have just tried putting a stick in each of the first 2 slots that have different colours so presumably are not dual channel compatible - (marked DDR_1 and DDR_3 respectively) and they have run through the test and given no errors whatsoever...
I am therefore completely stumped - is this now pointing towards a hardware error other than with the RAM itself and maybe with the MoBo instead??
My next move is to de-clock it back to default settings and flash the BIOS to a later edition and see if this helps but thought that I'd ask here first as this is the test which is reporting errors.
Sincere thanks in advance for any knowledge that can be passed my way.
Dave.
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