For Christmas I got the 8GB Corsair Vengeance 1866MHz upgrade kit. So I took out my battery and held down the power button for 30 seconds to drain the electricity from the board. I then removed my original 14 gigs of ram and installed the two new corsair sticks into the the first and second slot on the board.
It booted up and ran great for a couple of hours then it blue screened for the first time. I thought nothing of it hoping it was nothing serious. For the next couple of days it ran smoothly except for 1 or 2 more blue screens. But finally a few days ago my computer started to blue screen very frequently and it blue screened during a windows update and corrupted my boot.
At that point i was done. So i tried to re install windows and it kept blue screening so i decided to switch out the the new ram for the original ram and it didn't blue screen once. So that led me to believe the problem was the new ram. With that in mind i tested each stick of the new ram separately with memtest and no errors were found.
Also when I just had one stick of the new ram in at a time it didn't blue screen.
So I'm wondering if it is a compatibility issue because i know people have been running Kingston's hyper-x 1866 speed ram fine with out problems. Maybe i'm doing something wrong I don't know.
My laptop model and processor:
Asus G74SX-dh73-3d
Intel i7 2760qm 2.4ghz
Thanks, I look forward to your posts!
G74SX-DH73-3D
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i7-2760QM, 2.4-3.5GHz, (32nm, 6MB L3 cache)
nVidia GeForce GTX 560M 3,072MB PCI-Express GDDR5 DX11
8GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866MHz CL11 Dual Channel Memory
120GB OCZ Vertex 3 Sandforce Solid State Drive->Boot
750GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache Hard Disk Drive->Storage
WEI->7.6-7.9-7.3-7.3-7.9