MSI P55-CD53 Memory Problems

I have a P55-CD53 with a 4GB memory kit from Crucial (CT2KIT25664BA1339) that according to Crucial is recommended for my board.  I am running win 7 x64 Ultimate for my OS. 
I have read a few posts that mentions changing voltages to 1.575 and charge time to 2T and it seemed to work for most. I tried 1.55V with the 2T and I still had crashes and blue screens.  I tried 1.6V and my machine did not boot, just a blue screen with memory error detected.  The next time it did boot, but I noticed that the memory voltage had gone back to auto.  Many more problems and I changed back to 1T also.  Now I am able to use my machine for more than a few minutes.
I have tried just to let my machine idle overnight and it has always had a blue screen in the morning.  I went to the Crucial site and they mentioned a program to test my memory. http://hcidesign.com/memtest/  That program will throw errors and blue screen my machine.
So I tried memtest86+ off of a boot disk.  I ran it for over 3 hours with no errors.
I noticed others have posted images of their memory so here is mine.  So what can I do to get this machine stable?  By the way I am not overclocking.

Quote from: Spg on 21-February-10, 06:36:11
No Joy!
I would make the BIOS changes and save them.  Then my machine would start to reboot, shut down and the boot back up again with the original settings.  The only setting that would stick is the memory voltage.  I then tried to change the base clock from 133 to 150 to get the memory into the 1466-1600 Mhz range, with all the other settings, and I booted to a message saying the overclock failed.  So I am now back at the default (auto) settings.
Mike is right, but this mainboard has no problems with real DDR3-1600.
In any case, be sure your processor is fully supported by BIOS:
http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=prodcpu2&prod_no=1845&maincat_no=1

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