I have two PC's basically the same setups, Abit KG7s one with an xp 1700 one with a 1.4 athlon, same hardrives, samsung 60GB ide, the older one has 2 x 256mb PC2100 the newer 1 x 256mb PC2100 all 3 purchased at the same time.
One is about a year old one is about 4 months old. The newer one recently started to spontaneously reboot and trying to chkdsk the problem apparently made it worse, corrupted a few directories making them inaccessible, I was able to recover most of it. So I started testing things and something just isn't making sense here. On my machine memtest can run all day and night and no errors, on the newer machine memtest had a few errors on test 5. So I ran ontrack data advisor the memory on the new machine failed, so i swapped out a module from the old machine. Then it would pass the ontrack test and now it gets thousands of errors on test 5 in memtest. I was told that was normal for most amd machines. The part that is really puzzling is I did a full surface scan on the HD with ontrack and nothing bad at all showed up. I cannot figure out what the bad part is here the machine was running stable up until that day. The different memories being bad/good makes it more puzzling and the HD being a-ok is just the icing on the cake. I just wish something was bad then at least I could replace it and get this fixed. Any ideas on what the hek is going on? Also both boards have the same bios and settings for the ram in the bios, voltage 2.52, cas 2. Give me anything to try i've exhausted my ideas.
One is about a year old one is about 4 months old. The newer one recently started to spontaneously reboot and trying to chkdsk the problem apparently made it worse, corrupted a few directories making them inaccessible, I was able to recover most of it. So I started testing things and something just isn't making sense here. On my machine memtest can run all day and night and no errors, on the newer machine memtest had a few errors on test 5. So I ran ontrack data advisor the memory on the new machine failed, so i swapped out a module from the old machine. Then it would pass the ontrack test and now it gets thousands of errors on test 5 in memtest. I was told that was normal for most amd machines. The part that is really puzzling is I did a full surface scan on the HD with ontrack and nothing bad at all showed up. I cannot figure out what the bad part is here the machine was running stable up until that day. The different memories being bad/good makes it more puzzling and the HD being a-ok is just the icing on the cake. I just wish something was bad then at least I could replace it and get this fixed. Any ideas on what the hek is going on? Also both boards have the same bios and settings for the ram in the bios, voltage 2.52, cas 2. Give me anything to try i've exhausted my ideas.
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