re: BSOD, win32k.sys
Tuesday, July 26, 2005 at 7:17 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Paul Cooper
(2 messages posted)
After reading practically the whole forum except for the last 1/18th ish because
it was all too repetitive , it just confirmed my suspicions of the same problem i
was having.
Generally you will find its the ram causing the problem, ram timing is a fickle business,
and each stick of ram is uniquely capable of maintaining certain timing/frequency
settings. With ram generally if ur lower the frequency you can lower (increase performance
of) the timings , as if you raise the frequency timings must be sacrificed for stability.
In the manufacturing process no one stick comes out the same (basically) and then
quality of components is a factor also. Mixing and matching different brands of ram
means that your more at risk of instability at higher frequencys as timing conflicts
can occur, one stick my be able to sustain those timing settings at that frequency
whereas the other(s) may not , thus causing instability, and if one stick of ram
becomes unstable from timing settings all will fail as they are linked together,
that is how some ppl found lowering the frequency or isolating it to one ram stick
fixed the problem as at the lower frequency all could run stabily at the set timing
and by isolating there was only the one stick as a variable , so long as that was
stable at those settings all good. Good quality ram is usually the go because it
runs through stricter testing and uses higher quality components. Usually Corsair/OCZ/Kingstom
etc quality sticks are actually stress tested past the reccomended settings to ensure
maximum stability and matched sets are tested together aggressively to ensure their
maximum stability whilst working in a dual configuration. Another thing to look out
for is more modern motherboards with advanced memory architectures can be very picky
about what ram can be used and in what configuration , i have a new Asus SLI motherboard
for instance that will work with certain brands of ram in 1 stick configuration but
not 2 or 4 , whereas some will work in 1 stick or 4 sticks but not dual
- Written in response to:
- re: BSOD, win32k.sys (Falcon: Thursday, July 14, 2005 at 2:58 pm)
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