New Ram - Memtest86+ 2 Errors

[radink]

I had some stability problems when I built my machine about a week ago. I seemed to narrow it down on the ram. Memtest failed alot during test 5. I recieved new ram today (better ram vs the value ram i had) and I passed Memtest until test 7 on the 3rd pass. I failed 2 items. Should I be worried about this?

System:
ASRock 939Dual-SATA mb
AMD Athlon 64 (Venice) 3200+
2x512 Corsair TWINX1024-3200C2PT (1gb total)
Geforce Video Card

Thanks!

 

[RichUK]

test 7 is not as important as 8 and 5 however, if it errors at all your ram is just not stable for one reason or another .. is this stock??

 

[radink]

Yes. I guess this means I recieved 2 bad sets of ram in a row. What ****** luck.

 

[crispy2010]

Your mobo is prob not giving ram enough voltage. Try bumping memory voltage a tad. Then run memtest!

 

[radink]

will do. Thanks! Ill let you know what's happening.

 

[Hacp]

This is all stock right?

 

[radink]

yes.

 

[radink]

It passed the test so who knows... Ill just have to keep an eye on it.

 

[crispy2010]

Originally posted by: radink
It passed the test so who knows... Ill just have to keep an eye on it.

Was that after turning up the voltage?

 

[radink]

Yes. Apparently my windows was corrupt also from all of the crashes. So I just reinstalled it. So far so good.

 

[radink]

Seems ok so far. The machine didn't reboot on my overnight like it would do last time. I guess things are better, but we shall see.

 

[Zap]

Sounds like it should be fine now.

2.5v is the "official" voltage for DDR RAM. Problem is that much of the RAM on the market is rated for higher voltages to even reach rated speeds. Compounding the problem, some boards undervolt.

Just curious, what RAM did you have before, and do you have now?

 

[crispy2010]

Originally posted by: Zap
Sounds like it should be fine now.

2.5v is the "official" voltage for DDR RAM. Problem is that much of the RAM on the market is rated for higher voltages to even reach rated speeds. Compounding the problem, some boards undervolt.

Yup my corsair needs 2.7 to run stock!

 

[interchange]

Depends on the RAM chips. Some chips perform much better after being burned-in at higher voltage.

 

[radink]

I had Crucial Value ram 2 stix 512mb each DDR400.
I now have Corsair Ram (TWINX-1024) 2x 512 DDR400

Last night when I upped the voltage, and rebooted, none of my games would play. They would come up to a black screen, but I could hear the music, and sounds. I could even navigate the menus with the keyboard. So I put the ram voltage back and the games were still screwed up. So last night I reinstalled windows completely. I think from all the instant reboot crashes, it had had it. The games came back fine once I was done. I did not set the ram voltage back to high. The machine stayed up all night but iTunes crashed on me when I logged in this morning. I figured no biggy. Then my wife logged on and the machine reboot itself. So I had her up the ram voltage again and had her boot the memtest86+ cd. It ran almost 6 hours and 14 passes with no errors. I stopped it and brought windows back up. I guess since the ram test passed (which it's the first time running higher voltage) I'm ok now. Hopefully.

Thanks for your help guys! (sorry for the long winded story).

 

[Deleted member 4644]

Sounds like you might have a real ram problem. I hate to say it but you might want to RMA it just to be sure.

 

[radink]

Originally posted by: Deleted member 4644
Sounds like you might have a real ram problem. I hate to say it but you might want to RMA it just to be sure.

Did you read my last post?

 

[radink]

Well computer keeps randomly rebooting. I'm done. Sending all these parts back and going back to my old pc which always worked. I'm never doing this BS again. And now I'm stuck with a processor because ****** newegg won't take it back.

so frustrating.