I declare...

cats_five · 7 Mar 2015 at 15:14

... that next time I upgrade the first thing I will do once the PC is built is rum memtest. Spent ages on an unstable upgrade, eventually ran it (thought I could see ways I'd messed up installing Windows etc.) and so far it has found just over 5,000 errors!

I could have done that a week ago. :mad:

Danny75 · 7 Mar 2015 at 19:58

This also caught me out with a build. The rig experienced random crashes, on load or idle. Eventually ran Memtest and it discovered errors.

Having said that, there was another build which also experienced random crashes, and Memtest found nothing. However, swapping out the RAM immediately solved it to this day. Because of that; and despite still finding Memtest useful; swapping out the RAM is the only surefire check and I now keep spare RAM handy.

philo-sofa · 7 Mar 2015 at 20:03

I remember when it was a faulty PSU that ruined my new build. Took me a grand long time to figure that out.

RJC · 7 Mar 2015 at 20:34

I had a similar issue, with my 920 build, had 2 lots of faulty ram and the second lot did not show any Mem Test errors.

cats_five · 7 Mar 2015 at 20:45

Glad I am not alone!

setter · 7 Mar 2015 at 20:50

The last ram issue I had was a patriot viper kit, rated at 2400mhz. But unfortunately anything higher than 1600mhz and it would cause bsods. Returned it and got it replaced with the kit in sig, which tbh I should have bought in the first place. Lower profile and better timings for the same price. Gets very frustrating having to remove and refit the CPU cooler only to find the ram doesn't work.

cats_five · 16 Mar 2015 at 17:20

RAM arrived today, no sign of any errors so far, and it's whipping through the tests compared with the faulty RAM.

BTW was amazed to see I joined the forum just over 10 years ago - in Dec 2014. Gosh hardware has changed in that time.