Alright, I'm gonna relate my experience in an ATOT'ish style (without cliffs 😉 )
Yesterday I put the standard Venice, DFI Ultra D, OCZ VX, etc... build together and booting up. I ran Memtest at first overnight on my two sticks and when I got up there were a bunch of errors. Today, I said screw it and tried to install Windows anyway. The initial setup went fine but when it rebooted to finish I would get a BSOD, some error about PFN. So I took the stick in DIMM 4 out (leaving one in DIMM 2) and then Windows installed fine. After that, I tried booting with the two sticks again and it restarts itself as soon as it gets to the welcome screen.
So I say Ok, go into the BIOS, manually change the timings to 2-2-2-6 and put on 2.9V. Then I go back to Memtest. Now I get 4 errors on test 5 of the first pass, around 215mb or so. I switch the modules and I get the same errors again, but the addresses are now 730mb or so. Then I run each stick seperately and sure enough, one comes up with those 4 errors at the end of test 5, pass 1. So is this proof that the stick is bad?
Yesterday I put the standard Venice, DFI Ultra D, OCZ VX, etc... build together and booting up. I ran Memtest at first overnight on my two sticks and when I got up there were a bunch of errors. Today, I said screw it and tried to install Windows anyway. The initial setup went fine but when it rebooted to finish I would get a BSOD, some error about PFN. So I took the stick in DIMM 4 out (leaving one in DIMM 2) and then Windows installed fine. After that, I tried booting with the two sticks again and it restarts itself as soon as it gets to the welcome screen.
So I say Ok, go into the BIOS, manually change the timings to 2-2-2-6 and put on 2.9V. Then I go back to Memtest. Now I get 4 errors on test 5 of the first pass, around 215mb or so. I switch the modules and I get the same errors again, but the addresses are now 730mb or so. Then I run each stick seperately and sure enough, one comes up with those 4 errors at the end of test 5, pass 1. So is this proof that the stick is bad?
