Bad Memory

[MBurke]

Would a bad stick of memory make my computer do weired things ??...like crashing and games not running right. I am running windows xp home. I do have 256 mb Samsung orignal ddr 333....I bought some used memory that I thought was the same thing but it just made my machine do some weired things. Is this possible ?? Thanks

 

[amdskip]

It's very possible.

 

[eplebnista]

Originally posted by: amdskip
It's very possible.

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

memtest86 to be sure

 

[Cyb]

Test your memory with this
http://www.memtest86.com

When it gives errors, it doesn't mean that your memory is defect. First try it on another chipset. If that works fine, than you maybe have the same problem as I do.
see http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=29&threadid=916721

My problem could also be the Mobo. I still have to find out, when I have other memory.