Help me Inretpret what MemTest86 is telling me!

[OverVolt]

Well, when i run memtest, about ~5-10% of the time i get like 10,000 errors within a few minutes of booting up (my comp tends to crash in the first few minutes when it boots sometimes, and then is fine for days/weeks/months 24/7) and then after the 10,000 errors, im good to go, i've ran it for like 300+passes after the 10,000errors and not a single extra error was found.

Anyway Memtest + Windows always detect 1022mb of ram forwhatever reason, so i had memtest test all my ram by pressing "c" than "memory (XXX something)" "Memory - All/Bios" rather than "Memory - standard" Anyway when it tested all 1024mb of ram it ALWAYS finds 4096 errors, to the single error, at the 1,022.1MB mark. What does this mean? I've tried two different sticks of ram (Samsung, and Kingston Hyper X) and i get errors reguardless of my memory timings, voltage, and overclocks. (even thought i get crap overclocks)

What's happeneing here? I'm begining to think my Mobo is bad, what do i do? It's an Asus P4C800 Delx, the earlier ones from the initial release of the P4C 800FSB.

 

[Yanagi]

Try running memtest with only one stick loaded at a time with loose settings. see if the error still occcurs and on what stick

 

[Zepper]

If your mobo is capable of it, try bumping up your RAM voltage a notch. Do you have a good PSU in there?
.bh.

 

[chiragp]

Some help needed here too !

I have AthlonXP 2800+ at stock speed, and two sticks of 512MB. When running memtest with the Bios-All option, i get like 11,000+ errors by the end of Test 1. But if I run it in default mode i don't get any errors.

I tried different combinations of the two 512Mb sticks, testing each separately, swapping slots, testing them together etc... and get the same results. This leads me to believe that memory may not be the culprit but something else might be.

Am i correct in believing so? What other hardware could be bad? Processor, MotherBoard, PowerSupply, anything else ?

PS: Every thing is at stock, no OC atall.

Thanks,
Chirag

 

[chiragp]

bump !

 

[JBT]

Could be the memory is not compatiable with your mobo.