Can't run 4 sticks. :(

[J9Darkwing]

Salute!

I have an Asus P5n32 sli motherboard, q6600 processer and 4gig (4x 1gig) of Crucial ballistix ram. bl12864AA804
For some reason my computer wants to crash if I put all four sticks in. Runs fine with 2 or three in any slot configuration but anytime I put all four in it wants to give me the bsod.
I've raised the NB voltage and the Mem voltage but it doesn't seem to help. I can switch out 2 for 2 on the ram and it works the same so that's telling me it's not that I have a bad stick.
I have NOTHING overclocked or overvoltaged now. OV didn't seem to make a difference so why run my stuff hot if it wasn't going to help? I would like to OC everything but I'll worry about that after I get this memory thing licked.

Any suggestions? Thank you.

 

[advancedgeek]

try each stick at a time and run memtest86 and see if any of them are defective or in rare cases the motherboard's ram slot may be defective but i doubt that.

 

[J9Darkwing]

Thanks.
Running Memtest now.

 

[J9Darkwing]

Updated bios, which I hate doing with Asus boards cause of all the hassle, and now all four sticks are working. Running memtest now.

 

[Nagasama]

wow your mobo doesnt have asus update? its like...way easy to flash the bios with it.
takes 30 seconds.

 

[J9Darkwing]

It does have asus update and everytime I've used it, EVERY TIME, it ends up screwing something up. I ran Asus update last night and my computer wouldn't even post so I had to do the jumper thing and remove the battery just to get it to post. Then it would post but had my 2.4ghz q6600 set at 1.5ghz and I had to change it. Then windows wouldn't boot. So I dropped back from bios version 1601 to 15xx and it worked. I had to do this through the bios since windows wouldn't boot. Fortunately I have a laptop so I downloaded the other bios from the net and put them on a flash drive which allowed me to retro the bios.

 

[NosBoost300]

oh man, your still on that board!!! i feel sorry for your soul

i rememberwheni owned that.. and me and you were bouncing along trying to oc together... i moved on to the 680i from evga shortly after

 

[demiZE]

If you have more than 3 gigs you have to install an update for Vista 64-bit. Plug in 2 sticks, find the update, shutdown, and then put all 4 sticks in.

 

[NosBoost300]

If you have more than 3 gigs you have to install an update for Vista 64-bit. Plug in 2 sticks, find the update, shutdown, and then put all 4 sticks in.

no that is not the problem... his computer is crashing from running 4 sticks.. ur computer would still run under 32 bit with 4b.. just only 3.5gbs would be addressed...

try putting all 4 sticks in, and setting the ram voltage to 2.0 or 2.1 and see if that fixes it

running all 4 dimms will require more voltage to the ram

 

[J9Darkwing]

I remember NosBoost. I got married and bought a house all in the past few months so I don't really have the coin to toss on a new board but trust me in that when I do get ready for a new rig I'm going to come here and ask some questions. lol
I'll never do Asus again.
Just as an afterthought though. . . Boards aren't too terribly expensive. Which board would you recommend to go with my Q6600. I just bought an x-fi sound card and am getting a blueray dvd player for Christmas from the wife.