Good memory checker to identify bad stick?

comeradealexi · 7 Jul 2010 at 11:03

Currently got 4 x 1GB DDR2 BalistiX Tracer RAM

BSODS i've been getting:

Memory_management
Page_Fault_in_non_paged_area
NTFS.sys
Bad_pool_caller
PFN_list_corrupt
System_service_Exception
Reference_by_pointer

I've got memory_management three times (Most common)

what is the best way to identify the bad stick / sticks? (assuming its just the ram???)

Philtor · 7 Jul 2010 at 11:14

Download and run a Memtest boot disk

http://www.memtest.org/download/4.10/memtest86+-4.10.iso.zip

pearltoothed · 7 Jul 2010 at 15:46

I was having the same , every time i ran Memtest it passed,tried re-install of windows among other things, finally i ran memtest with one stick at a time and bingo i found the culprit.
RMA was pretty easy then.

comeradealexi · 7 Jul 2010 at 18:32

Here's what happened:

76,800 errors D: thats not good i assume.

not sure how to use this to identify the stick though, since its 3184.8MB does that mean its the 3rd stick?

Destination · 7 Jul 2010 at 18:39

You do it on one stick at a time, that means physically remove the other 2, and test, then retest, then test again, inc ase all 3 are faulty.

pearltoothed · 7 Jul 2010 at 18:46

comeradealexi said:
Here's what happened:

76,800 errors D: thats not good i assume.

not sure how to use this to identify the stick though, since its 3184.8MB does that mean its the 3rd stick?

If all the sticks were in one pack usually you send all of them back if ones faulty,
otherwise check every one indivitually.

comeradealexi · 7 Jul 2010 at 18:49

pearltoothed said:
If all the sticks were in one pack usually you send all of them back if ones faulty,
otherwise check every one indivitually.

Okay, thanks, i'll ring crucial tomorrow grr!

Testing the 3rd stick individually atm and got no errors so far but will leave it on anyway and ring tomorrow get them all replaced!

thanks for help every 1

pearltoothed · 7 Jul 2010 at 18:58

you're welcome m8, hope they do a speedy RMA.