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    New RAM cause BSOD's on R3?

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by Andarach, Feb 4, 2012.

  1. Andarach

    Andarach Notebook Enthusiast

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    I got my new R3 last week and ordered it with the i5, 4gb ram, 500gb hdd, bluetooth, xi-fi sound, and the bigfoot card. I decided when ordering that I'd replace the ram on my own to save some money. I got 2x4gb sticks of DDR3 1333 Corsair RAM to put in the system. After doing this I started having some bsod issues. They would flash up quick and most of them said it was driver or system based, troubleshooted with a friend and we ended up removing the Alien Respawn software since it was creating errors during loading and solved it for awhile, but now I got a "driver overrun" bsod. Frustrating trying to keep this thing a float with the improved ram. So does anyone know if for some reason the Corsair ram is just bad with the system, the ram is unstable, where I can mess with ram settings in the M11x's bios, if anyone else has had a similar experience, and/or if the ram is bad (or incompatible for some reason) a suggested upgrade to use instead? Thanks for any help.
     
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    Nightrider Notebook Geek

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    Its either a ram imcompatibility or a defect ram. Try to remove stick#1 do test , remove stick#2 do test. Maybe one of the ram is Dead on arrival
     
  3. Andarach

    Andarach Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ran HD Tune and did several memtest runs, RAM is fine and HD is fine. Apparently it is drivers for the Killer Wireless Card. Is that a known issue with M11x?