Ram problems??

[sodamninsane]

finally got around to letting memtest run through it's full test on my box the other day and got a couple of error messages back. they ranged from the 80-81 and 650-652mb ranges on my ram sticks.

The ram is Non ECC so I'm wondering if this is just a load error or if I fried it. I'm having stability problems with my box lately esp. with games. But I think thats just because of the x800. anyway, any help you guys can offer would be great. System specs are in my sig.

I can get copies of the error codes if they are needed as well.

 

[imported_Phil]

Your RAM is faulty.

 

[PingSpike]

Try each stick individually and run the tests again. If you're lucky, only one stick is bad/incompatiable.

 

[sodamninsane]

well I ran it again tonight and got 245 errors after 4 hours of testing. I'd say it's all pretty well F*d. Plus the memory errors span through the whole 1024 megs, not just a 512 mb cluster, so I'm betting it's both sticks. at any rate, i bought em in a dual pack so new egg will replace both Thanks ne way though.

 

[dman]

What board / FSB speed? Are you overclocked?

Memtest can be fooled by a bad board / chipset problem. Nforce2 @ 166MHz FSB would fail on one board but same components on a Nforce2 R2 worked fine.

 

[The J]

245 errors, is that all? In 4 hours I'll get over 100,000 errors (no, that not a typo. 100,000 errors). The full test will return over 4 million errors.

Anyway, it does look like you've got some RAM problems there. Look up the RAM and motherboard and see if there are any compatibility issues between the two.

 

[Navid]

memtest is used for checking the stability of the RAM. If RAM is faulty, it will be shown. But, if RAM is OK, it may still fail if you are overclocking or have set the timings too tight.i
Are you overclocking?
If yes, set back to default rates and run memetst again.

Even if you pass with no errors, you have to let it run overnight to confirm that your RAM is stable.

memtest can generate errors because of the CPU also.
So, as I said, run the tests with everything set to default (including the CPU frequency) first.

 

[Cheetah8799]

Originally posted by: sodamninsane
well I ran it again tonight and got 245 errors after 4 hours of testing. I'd say it's all pretty well F*d. Plus the memory errors span through the whole 1024 megs, not just a 512 mb cluster, so I'm betting it's both sticks. at any rate, i bought em in a dual pack so new egg will replace both Thanks ne way though.

very bad...

Gonna have to test that ram in another rig at stock speeds. If it still fails, then you have some bad ram.

If you are lucky, it's only a compatibility problem. You'll have to do more testing though to determine that.

oh, and you should have ZERO errors in memtest.