This has been frustrating me all weekend. So first my basic computer stats: C2Q Q8400 at stock speeds, 2x2GB GSkill DDR2 1066 running at DDR 800 speed. Biostar TP45HP motherboard.
Decided I needed better cooling ( Hyper 212+) and more ram ( another 2x2GB GSkill DDR 1066, exact same model as my old ram). Heatsink install works fine, but ram is causing all kinds of issues. I've run into this before and up the voltage on the RAM a bit. Right now the ram is running at about 2.145 Volts. This passes memtest+ ( about 5 hours worth ). I figure it must be stable. I still get some weird file corruption errors.
The file corruption seems to be localized to my wallpapers and pictures. I figure I must have run Lightroom while the RAM wasn't behaving and some of the pictures got corrupted. I replace the corrupted ones I can find, and alsp up the chipset voltage a bit, just to make sure.
Today I ran Prime95 for a few hours and Intel Burn Test 5 times to make sure, and the computer runs fine. But I still find file corruption errors every now and then. Plus some programs will refuse to load. Also, now the computer has this weird habit of "stuttering" seemingly randomly.
Unfortunately, without thinking, I had applied a bunch of Windows updates before I install the RAM. So I'm not even sure if everything I'm seeing ( such as the programs not loading) are the RAM/Chipset related or the Windows Update related.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.