Re: RAM Issues

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I think Frodo is right, I have a Kingston an Ultra and a Rosewill all DDR
512mb, thing is they are all new sticks and even when I use just one I get
the same errors. Funy thing is I haven't had the BSOD in a while now, I even
ran a bunch of applications in the background while playing Doom 3 for about
an hour and it worked just fine. Pretty damn strange if you ask me, because
if Memtest is reporting these errors, why don't I BSOD while using so much or
all of my RAM???
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"frodo@xxxxxxxxxxxx" wrote:

> check bios and make sure mem timing is set right - sometimes they don't
> detect the chip's specs correctly. disable any turbo modes. try bumping
> up the ram voltage, 2.7 is not too much. You could try to manually back
> off on the timings to see if you can get it to pass.
>
> check a forum that has users of your motherboard - they may have good
> tips.
>
> if memtest86+ says it's failing, then you can count on it. as stated, try
> moving the sticks around to different slots to see if that fixes it. at
> least it may help you determine which stick it is (error address moves w/
> the stick).
>
> Sometimes, a particular brand of stick just doesn't work right in a
> particular motherboard, when it works just fine in someone else's
> motherboard. If you do replace a stick, I would try a different brand
> (unless its under warentee, then get them to replace it).
> corsair and crucial are pretty rock solid brands.
>
> Once it's working, I would (perhaps) not trust your install. A ram error
> could have resulted in a bad write to disk, and it's possible that some
> system file is now bad on disk. So, consider a clean install.
>
>
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