Memtest 86+ crashing after pressing ESC

[Dave3000]

I was testing my memory with Memtest 86+ for 9 hours without erros. I pressed ESC and my PC would not reboot and Memtest just froze. Plus sign was still blinking and there was the word Halting next to the memory range tested. Also my keyboard didn't respond after that. Waited 10 minutes but Memtest did not reboot my PC so I just pressed the reset button because I got tired of waiting.

I'm using a i7 2600k with 16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR31600. Does it sound like a memory problem?

 

[hennessy1]

With the newest version 4.20 I believe you can boot it into safe mode and see if that makes a difference.

 

[Dave3000]

I was also having a few other errors in Windows and that was when I ran that memory at 1333. Today I exchanged the RAM for 16GB (4x4GB) Kingston HyperX PC12800 kit. I'm only running it at the Auto 1333 9-9-9-24 timings at 1.5V settings because at 1600 it is rate for 1.65V as stated on the sticker and I keep reading from different sources on the web that I should not use RAM higher than 1.5V on Sandy Bridge CPUs and one source said 1.575V is the max if I remember correctlly. I'm not going to risk frying my i7 2600k.

Also I was thinking that since Sandybridge CPU's only support up to DDR3 1333 MHz memory, could I have a memory controller that doesn't run stable at 1600 MHz on my CPU with running 4 sticks and the memory I took back was actually good?

Tonight I'm going to run Memtest for 9 hours again and see if I have the same problem with Memtest halting and freezing after I press ESC. I will not be running it at 1600 MHz during Memtest because of the 1.65V that my memory requires to run it at that speed.