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Is this stick of memory I bought in fs/ft bad...?

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FearoftheNight

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Memory does well in most tests. Setting at all memory and all tests. However in memory sizing if I choose bios-all instead of bios >std or bios probe i get thousands of errors. Is this a bad stick of ram???
 
it seems like all the other tests are passing..but in the screen with bio all, bio std, probe and something else when i change it from all to std lots and lots of errors. I take it taht this is not normal??? if so what should I do? contact the seller or the manufacturer?

any other opinions?
 
Just to triple check. Bio-all should not come up with say hundred of errors within a minute right? THIS IS NOT NORMAL? If so...ugh. Should I bother contacting the seller form the fs/ft forum?

Edit: Make that 40000+ errors in about 2 min.
 
I don't know what bio-all is, but my tolerance for errors is zero.

I can't imagine any case where getting 10K+ errors is anything but bad.
 
Is Bio-all all the tests including the extended ones?

Regardless, the memory should have no errors in it. Sometimes it can be due to an incompatibility between your board and memory, but most likely bad memory.
 
I've had Kingston HyppeX3000 in my ssytem before with no problems. As for extended tests I'v never made it that far as I've gotten tens of thousands of errors in the first few minutes on tests 1 and 2.
 
Originally posted by: FearoftheNight
Ok I just bought and tested a brand new stick of HyperX4000 and still same errors appear. So what conclusion does this lead to?
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Bad motherboard/memory slot.
 
BIOS-All simply doesn't work with some setups. Just like some of the tests always fail with Athlon systems, etc. Additionally since you said probe worked fine that tests much the same as BIOS-All. So no, the memory is not bad. Here is the relevant section of the docs, btw, and even they mention it can be flakey:
Two additional options are available through online configuration options. The first option (BIOS-All) also uses the "e820" method to obtain a memory map. However, when this option is selected all of the reserved memory segments are tested, regardless of what their intended use is. The only exception is memory segments that begin above 3gb. Testing has shown that these segments are typically not safe to test. The BIOS-All option is more thorough but could be unstable with some motherboards.

The third option for memory sizing is the traditional "Probe" method. This is a very thorough but not entirely safe method. In the majority of cases the BIOS-All and Probe methods will return the same memory map. For older BIOS's that do not support the "e820" method there are two additional methods (e801 and e88) for getting the memory size from the BIOS. These methods only provide the amount of extended memory that is available, not a memory table. When the e801 and e88 methods are used the BIOS-All option will not be available. The MemMap field on the display shows what memory size method is in use. Also the RsvdMem field shows how much memory is reserved and is not being tested.
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