Could RAM be causing this?

Craig321

Craig321

Craig321

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Hi

It seems when I put quite a bit of load on the RAM, my PC has been having complete freeze ups.

It happened again today when playing Rainbow 6 Lockdown demo.

It seems to happen mostly in games, but it's not the graphic card as it has done it with another graphic card in. I thought it could be a problem with the RAM as to boot it back up I have to take the left hand stick of RAM out and put it back in again.

So could this problem be the RAM?

Thanks
Craig.
 
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Pentium 4 530 3.0GHZ
200GB SATA HDD
ATI Prophet 9800 Pro 128MB
2x Corsair XMS3200 512MB

I'm probably going to take the left hand stick of RAM out and run it for a week + without that and see if it freezes.

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I have been running a Prime95 torture, I'm on test 3, heat is 60C and everything is fine.

Craig.
 
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Well, that'd be the same as just trying one stick at a time for a week each and see which one does it... if any as the freezes don't happen very often at all.

Craig.
 
OK, I have tested my newest stick of RAM, it passed 44 tests and ran for over 8 hours with no errors at all.

I am going to test my older stick of RAM through the night tonight, I'm really hoping it's faulty.

Craig.
 
PC:
Intel Pentium 4 530 3.0GHZ Socket 775
Gigabyte 8IPE775-G
Corsair 512MB XMS3200 Pro DDR x2 (1GB)
200GB Maxtor DMax+10 SATA150/7200/8M
Akasa Ultra Quiet 460W ATX v2.0

Stats from everest when running prime95:


For some reason the +3.3v is always at 3.2 and sometimes slight below (e.g. 3.18), would that be a problem ?

Thanks
Craig.
 
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