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The best way to test memory?

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bluesky

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My XP(Well, Win and AMD) system is randomly restarting and I suspect it's related to memory dump.
I have 3 sticks of 256mb Crucial 2100 DDR, and this amount of ram makes Norton program useless.
Any other way to test the memory?
Thanks.
 
Also, are you sure that your motherboard can really handle three sticks? A lot of boards have problems if all the banks are populated.
 
Memtest seems wildly inaccurate, at least in my testing. Running it on one rock solid system that would run any CPU/Memory intensive benchmark for hours yielded hundreds of errors while running it on another obliviously unstable system (due to overclocked memory) yielded 0 errors. One problem with any software based tester is everything goes through the CPU and memory controller where errors can be added but the only alternative is using a dedicated memory tester which is major $$.
 
Thanks for the replies.

My system was working fine over a month, suddenly it started crashing. I have to reinstall after several crash, since WinXP doesn't start anymore.
When it crashes, it shows the usual blue screen and 'Serious error gibberish' and I can see barely 'memory dump.... Contact your system... The warning message goes away, so I can't read them all, then it restarts.

I'm using Enermax 350w psu, it's possible, but it's not likely the culprit.
My motherboard is A7v266-e, and I didn't see anyone have problem with 3 sticks of ram.

Is it possilbe to use cd-r or cd-rw instead of floppy to run the program?
I didn't bother to install floppy drive.

 
Thanks.

I'm not sure I should keep posting about this problem on this forum, but I just need one more question.

After the window crashes, it showes it logged the problem on D:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini011402-01.dmp and
D:\DOCUME~1\SUNGKL~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER5.tmp.dir00\sysdata.xml.
I can't the second file, but when I opened the .dmp file on notepad, it showes just the word pagepagepage...............
So I checked the paging file, some reason I found it was disabled on this system.

My question is if you disable the paging file, it could be resulted in memory dump, and crash etc?
 
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