DDR2 Memory Faulty Crashing? Memtest, please help!

ManiacMatt · 25 Jul 2012 at 10:27

As above can anyone help me with this please?

I've got a Q6600 running at 3.2ghz on Air - Ordered a pre-overclocked system from Overclockers back in Sept 2007. I changed the ram a couple years back along with the GPU and PSU.

The RAM is Curcial BL2KIT12864AA106A (2 X 2gb kits i.e 4 x 1GB sticks). 2 of these specs - 2-1GB 240-PIN UNBUFF DIMM 128Mx64 DDR2 PC2-8500 CL5 EPP

The last couple days the computer keeps crashing in Windows 7 after booting (Lines on screen and computer becomes unresponsive). Have changed rolling back video drivers but this doesn't help.

Memtest is showing errors per Memory slot as follows although I didn't have time to let it complete all tests last night:

0: 86515090
1: 43257325
2: 0
3: 43257853

Therefore assuming I should try to boot with the stick from slot 2 so at least I can use the PC?

From my memory this is what happened last time and I had to replace the ram. I've get it setup to run at 2.2 volts etc. as per the manufacturers specs.

If I've got to change the RAM can anyone point me towards a decent kit? I know DDR2 is expensive now.

Will be upgrading at some point in the next 12 months as I know it's an old PC now but getting married next week so funds are very limited!

Don't even use it for gaming anymore.

Thanks for your help guys.

Matt

ManiacMatt · 26 Jul 2012 at 16:04

Bump

Getting married in a week and really need to use my PC to sort wedding songs etc.

Any help would be much appreciated!

ed79 · 26 Jul 2012 at 17:59

Hmm, I'm just wondering if it's overclocked a little too close to the limit. If it were just one DIMM or 1 slot with errors then I'd say it's hardware fault, but for 3 out of 4 slots to show that many errors it may just be they're struggling to keep up.

I'm assuming a Q6600 at 3.2 GHz is running 355 FSB x 9? If so the first thing I'd do it set the FSB back to 300 and re-run memtest. If this works then you may find that the drop in performance isn't even noticeable which should keep you running until you upgrade later on.

If it still fails at the lower speed then maybe run Memtest with DIMM1 in slot 1, moving onto DIMM2 etc until you find the error (either with the RAM or the motherboard).

ManiacMatt · 26 Jul 2012 at 19:41

Thanks for the reply ed79

Had chance to play around a bit more tonight & it seems that a was getting a C1 on the Abit ip35 ori motherboard when I just left 1 particular ram stick in.

Botted with just 3 X 1tb sticks and has been fine for an hour so will see how it goes. If I have any more problems I'll try downclocking like you suggested.

Thankyou for your time