What are the odds of this?

[OverVolt]

Well, i'll make it short and to the point

My computer is a little old, suffers from BSOD's on WinXP SP2 "IRQ_NOT_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL" which is just general instability.

I used to have samsung memory in my PC before, in my ASUS P4C800, two 512Mb 400DDR. I found i was having memory problems so i bought some Kingston hyper-X DDR450 and i still have memory problems.

The old memory, i stuck it in another ASUS board, my A7N8X, and it has zero problems, matter of fact its been crunching F@H for a month without a reboot, overclocked too.

So, just today, getting annoyed with the ever more requent BSOD's i ran memtest86 and the microsoft memory tester.

memtest86 reported 20,000+errors and the windows one says something like 300k+ errors. What are the chances of having two bad sets of memory?

Could it be the motherboard? Thats my question.

If so, whats a good replacement. It MUST have SATA RAID for my raptors :heart:

 

[Wanescotting]

What are the chances of having two bad sets of memory?

I had to rma two sticks of ram to mushkin before I got a good one(I HAD to rma 2x).

 

[OverVolt]

Originally posted by: Wanescotting

What are the chances of having two bad sets of memory?

I had to rma two sticks of ram to mushkin before I got a good one(I HAD to rma 2x).

oo thats a PITA.

But im talking about this thing reading 2sticks of samsung as bad, that works perfectly fine in another PC, and 2sticks of kingston hyper-x not-cheap stuff as bad too. That rules out a voltage/timing issue. PSU is antec 480w to take out the possibility.


is it possble to have a bad memory controller in the mobo?

 

[stevty2889]

My Asus P4P800 was pretty picky about memory. I ended up using Kingmax PC4000 memory that worked fine, but it didn't want to work with the crucial or the centon memory I was using on my gigabyte 8IK1100.

 

[Bozo Galora]

there is no rhyme or reason why some sticks work and dont with ea mobo
at the first sign of prob - change horses

 

[ROEHUNTER]

I just upgraded from a Socket A XP 2000+ to a Socket 754 Athlon 64 2800+ . Had 2 Centon PC2700 512 MB in the old board ,worked fine. Put it in the new board and no go . I tried both sticks in both slots and just one at a time. Finally put the old PC 2100 256 chips that used to be in my old board and it worked perfect . Oh well !!