My PC was acting up on me a lot lately, most of it crashes and freezes while playing StarCraft 2. Mighty inconvenient because that causes me to lose points in multiplayer.
Anyway, after the latest barf, I had enough and downloaded the newest memtest86. Halfway through it went nuts, finding errors in "CPU 0". After 1 million errors all at the same memory location (wish it saved a log), I got the hint.
Since they were all in the same spot, I decided to take a chance. I yanked out 2 DIMMs, in slots 0 and 2. Ran memtest86, no errors. Ok, so, bad DIMMs? I put those DIMMs back in and took the two good ones out. The computer wouldn't even POST.
I switched the same DIMMs to 1/3 instead of 0/2. Booted right up, passed the test with flying colors.
My conclusion: bad DIMM slots. Am I wrong? I won't rush out to replace the motherboard just yet. I can live with "just" 4GB of memory and don't have the spare cash ATM.
Anyway, after the latest barf, I had enough and downloaded the newest memtest86. Halfway through it went nuts, finding errors in "CPU 0". After 1 million errors all at the same memory location (wish it saved a log), I got the hint.
Since they were all in the same spot, I decided to take a chance. I yanked out 2 DIMMs, in slots 0 and 2. Ran memtest86, no errors. Ok, so, bad DIMMs? I put those DIMMs back in and took the two good ones out. The computer wouldn't even POST.
I switched the same DIMMs to 1/3 instead of 0/2. Booted right up, passed the test with flying colors.
My conclusion: bad DIMM slots. Am I wrong? I won't rush out to replace the motherboard just yet. I can live with "just" 4GB of memory and don't have the spare cash ATM.
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