memtest86

[frankierx]

I ran memtest 86. 1 hr and 30 mins into the test and on test #8; results read so far : 2 pass, 7000 err, 0 ecc err. What does this mean? Am I reading these results correctly? Im oc'ing 2500+ to 2.2 Ghz ( 3200+ speeds) , epox 8rda 333 fsb, nforce2 spp chipset, 1.7 Vcore, 2.73 Vdimm, pc3200 at 3-3-3-8.

 

[beatle]

It's showing 7000 errors, which is not good. Try it with your CPU @ stock clock and see if you have any errors.

 

[BW86]

7000 errors is not good at all :Q

Set everything back to the defaults and run memtest, maybe you got bad ram.

 

[Tiamat]

Yeah, 1 error is bad. I remember my first build ever, I ran memtest after 2 weeks of troubleshooting and the ram had over 1,350,000 errors in 3 passes of memtest (normal tests only).

 

[frankierx]

Okay, I scaled back to stock speeds, and now I'm getting 4 pass and 80 errors after 4 hrs of memtest. At least its better now than it was at OC speeds with 7000 errors. Should I rma my corsair ram or just keep it and chock it up as normal results?

 

[Concillian]

NOT normal results. Memtest86 should never present errors.

 

[Tiamat]

Originally posted by: frankierx
Okay, I scaled back to stock speeds, and now I'm getting 4 pass and 80 errors after 4 hrs of memtest. At least its better now than it was at OC speeds with 7000 errors. Should I rma my corsair ram or just keep it and chock it up as normal results?

At everything stock, getting 1 error in memtest is more than enough reason to get a replacement all expenses paid from corsair. At least mushkin does that...
Just email them with your specs and voltages.

 

[BW86]

I agree do what tiamat said.

 

[frankierx]

Okay, RMA'd the bad corsairs xms pc3200 ram and poped in the old samsung pc2700 ram. no memtest86 errors whatsoever now.