Isellion

All right, here's the deal. I built my computer last May. I had problems with the memory then, found out I had a bad slot on my mobo. RMA'd the mobo, no problems. In addition, the memory was bad, so I RMA'd that as well, got the new stuff and I've been doing great until two weeks ago.

Random BSOD's started popping up out of the blue (no pun intended). So, I ran Memtest 86+ and got well over 700,000 errors. After a little more testing, I found out that one stick of my RAM is fine, while the other is quite literally dead. So, I bought some brand new RAM (same kind) since it's so cheap at the moment, and I'm RMA'ing the old stuff. Cool, I'll end up with 4Gb of RAM eventually.

Now, here's the thing, I got the new stuff yesterday, and just for the heck of it, I ran Memtest 86+ on it. Well, I got about 100 errors. Is this just the way RAM comes? This keeps blowing my roommates away since they've never had any trouble with their RAM (they've also never really used Memtest to check it either...). They just plug it in and go. I'm using right now, and it hasn't caused any problems, even after some strenuous gaming. So, should I be worried about those 100 or so errors, or is this normal?

(sorry for the wordy post) (my computer is in my sig)

neobloodline

Beat the crap out of it with ORTHOS and see what happens. Run it for a good long time and see if you get any errors.

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Mr. Jules

errors are never normal under memtest from my experience. For whatever reason it doesn't seem as if the ram is "bad" enough to cause serious instability in your system even under load so do with it what you like but personally I would RMA it. I know that's a real pain seeing as you've had to do it so many times but errors in memtest mean something is wrong.

Are you running the ram at factory spec timings and volts? It may be worth checking those out in the BIOS first because if something is set incorrectly it may just be that the ram can't handle the settings.

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Havegooda

What Jules said. Some DIMMs need to have specific volts or freqs to work. If not, they'll throw up blue stuff at you.

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