Memory Errors and BSOD's on Cold Startup

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Can a memory stick vendor not test their sticks before shipping? Someone needs to investigate Gskill. That's just too many cases of bad sticks I've been hearing about.

Ways a company cuts cost:
1)blames other hardware
a: so they don't have to waste time on a trouble call, pay for RMA shipping, giving out inventory in-place of the broken crap they sold
2)doesn't test their memory before shipping
a: they don't spend the payroll on testing: and by this they also save on the electricity to run the tests there-by cutting costs further
etc
etc

 

[JF_]

Bit late, but just wanna add that problem is not uncommon to other memory brands - I do have exactly the same problem with Corsair XMS3. Cold start, hundreds of memtest errors in seconds (or BSODs when booting windows). Reboot five minutes later, not a single problem shows up and the thing just works perfectly.

Fullspecs:
Asus P7P55-M, socket 1156, i7-860, 2Gb Corsair XMS3 DHX *that's the ones with the gray heatspreaders - given the limited airflow around the memory I figured that more cooling is better).

Already identified one consistently bad dimm (stuck bit in one address), so continued with only two instead of four - but this does not affect the cold boot crap at all. Incredibly hard to diagnose, and seriously pissing me off.

I am actually thinking whether this could just be a contact issue - if the pcb is on the thin end of the specs, and the socket only provides the absolute minimum springtension, maybe that is already enough to cause it?

 

[SunnyD]

One of the things about GSkill memory you'll notice is that they almost always rate it lower voltage than anyone else. I bought a set of GSkill DDR2-1066 purposely because they rate it 1.5v-1.6v @ 1066MHz, while almost everyone else is 1.8v-1.9v. That said, I run mine at 1.65v (1.62v measured) and don't have a problem, though I did exhibit some cold boot issues (not temp related cold), but that also is a common symptom of the Gigabyte board I have (and Gigabyte in general).

Could simply have given the RAM a bit more voltage and it would end up stable. Who knows.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

I've never had a cold boot memory issue. Infact, I've never heard of it until this thread.

 

[truss64130]

I just built a new core i5-750 rig with a gigabyte ga-p55a-ud4p and A-DATA g-series ram DDR3-1600 (2 x 2GB). I'm running stock timings (both tried auto and manual settings) - Ram at 1333, and am also having cold boot errors. I've put in a support request with Gigabyte, but they have not even looked at it yet. I may try the kingston valueram at 1333 in a few days if I can't determine and hardware problems. Memtest86 + 4.0.0 tests fine on warm boot, fails on cold boots.

Posting here to add another instance of the problem.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

lol

 

[icebergnl]

Sorry to revive this old thread, but this could my rescue..

I'm having the exact same problem, can find other people with the same problem everywhere, but no solutions..

So, I'm also getting BSOD's and memtest errors on a cold boot (tried cold boot memtest only after reading this thread), and not a hickup on a warm boot. Have been trying everything except replacing memory.

So replacing the memory should be the solution. I have Corsair mem, XMS3 with DHX heatspreader. I guess I'll try getting OCZ Gold. In a local store this time, so RMA will be easy.