holy hell i KNEW summat was wrong!

[SooTyLaD]

been having some stability issues, the odd bsod, applications not installing quite right and failing on weird things...

so started to do checks, first ran the western digital diagnosis app on my raptor... all good...

just booted into memtest... 136 errors in the first 60 seconds no passes!

so basically my question is, is this DEFFO a memory problem or is my motherboard screwed or summat like that?

jeezes if its the mobo AGAIN (3rd mobo) i'm gonna cry... the bugger aint even overclocked right now...

 

[GeForce]

Are you running 2x1Gb, or 4x512mb?

In either case, have you tried each stick individually? It could be that just one stick is faulty, and if so, trying each individually will isolate it as well as eradicating the possibility of a faulty mobo.

If both (or all) sticks give errors, then try with some different memory completely. If that still throws errors, then it looks likely to be the motherboard.

Jon

 

[Slogan]

I'm pretty sure that's the memory borked.

Still won't beat my GSkill on a DS4 Memtest record - couple of thousand errors within the first couple of minutes.

 

[SooTyLaD]

right...

its 2x1GB of ballistix... went into the bios just to check the voltage just to be sure, 2.2v as it should be, then did the systematic approach and tried one stick, then the other, alternate slots etc...

the result is fails all round, the slot is irrelevant, however one stick only has one red entry in the scrolling log (and fails tot up at what i assume is the same address) where as the other one outputs a multitude of error log entries...

dont know if anything can be deduced from this but thats the situation...

they also suprised me how how they were considering they have just been running windows in pretty much idle...

i dont have any spare ram so i cant completely elliminate the mobo, which i would like to tbh since i do seem to be having a hideous spell of bad mobos...

any advice?

 

[Hodders]

I had some ballistix memory that was fine for about 2 weeks and then I started to get BSODs. Turned out that Crucial were having loads and loads of returns.

Ended up getting a refund and swapping the memory for some Corsair and that has been as good as gold for the last year.

My bet is the memory. Beg/borrow/steal a stick of memory (ideally not Crucial Ballistix) from a friend and test it. I'm sure the mobo is fine.

 

[GeForce]

Sticks failing at the same address(es) on every slot does point to dead RAM.

I'm 99% sure it's the RAM and your mobo is perfectly OK

 

[Big.Wayne]

there seems to be some information missing here, what speed (MHz) is the memory running at? also what are the current timings?

Any chance of a screenie from CPU-z ? (the two tabs that show memory info).