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I've got a problem and don't know whether its my memory or motherboard. Please help.

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Piano Man

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Ok, I just got done building my sisters computer. I got her a barton 2500 thats running on an EPoX 8RDA+ motherboard with a twinpack of Corsair XMS3200C2PT memory (2*256) in Dual DDR mode. Ok, so I try to install W2K. The installation is marred by a bunch of read errors, except it always happens on a different file each time. I swap disk, CD-Roms, cables, everything. Nothing works until I only have 1 stick of RAM in there. So once W2K is installed I put in the other stick in Dual DDR mode. All the sudden files or corrupted and can't be read within windows. I take out one stick, and its fine. So here is my question to all of you, what is the trouble maker? The memory or the motherboard. Please help, because I just want to get this computer off my kitchen table as soon as possible 😉 Thanks.
 
Have you run memtest86? You want 10+ passes with zero errors. BTW is the system over clocked? Memory timings set too aggressively?
 
Seems like memory timing errors to me. Set them for default of fail-safe in BIOS and work them back up to where things are stable.
 
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