Is this faulty RAM

Drake5 · 24 Apr 2015 at 16:10

I recently purchased 2 X 8GB RAM from the MM

I loaded up a RAM test and within a couple of minutes it showed up some errors

Can this be down to anything else or is the RAM faulty? Are some errors normal?

Drake5 · 24 Apr 2015 at 16:21

Also ran the windows memory test and that came back with errors to

Doogles · 24 Apr 2015 at 17:39

Looks like it but maybe your RAM channels are damaged? If you got some different RAM to try in them it would be the best place to start.

Drake5 · 24 Apr 2015 at 17:44

Tried my old RAM with no errors at all

MeatLoaf · 24 Apr 2015 at 18:22

Is it getting the right volts in the bios? Apart from trying the other slots and trying each stick on its own theres not much more you can do.

Hopefully the seller will sort it

GTO656 · 24 Apr 2015 at 18:22

Yeh it looks like they are damaged unfortunately

shankly1985 · 24 Apr 2015 at 21:23

If you taking out your old ram, and putting in new ram make sure the new ram is getting the correct voltage and timings.

Leon Axel · 24 Apr 2015 at 21:43

Looks faulty to me. I had to return some faulty RAM recently. Do you get BSOD at all when your in Windows?

Drake5 · 24 Apr 2015 at 21:49

shankly1985 said:
If you taking out your old ram, and putting in new ram make sure the new ram is getting the correct voltage and timings.

I did

Also reset bios to default and still getting errors

Leon Axel said:
Looks faulty to me. I had to return some faulty RAM recently. Do you get BSOD at all when your in Windows?

No BSOD but didn't spend enough time in the desktop to get a good idea

shankly1985 · 24 Apr 2015 at 21:57

Faulty then.

Drake5 · 24 Apr 2015 at 21:58

I did read about the RAM before I bought it and a lot of people were saying they had errors in memtest and had to return various times before they got a good set

Leon Axel · 24 Apr 2015 at 22:03

What brand is it?

Drake5 · 24 Apr 2015 at 22:06

This RAM

http://www.patriotmemory.com/product/detail.jsp?prodline=5&catid=34&prodgroupid=239&id=1283

Leon Axel · 24 Apr 2015 at 22:17

Don't recall ever hearing of them. Doesn't mean they are a bad brand per-se.

Load into desktop and see If you get a Blue screen after 15 minutes or so browsing the web, or whatever you usually do on your computer. Even so I would RMA If Memtest picks up errors. Memory errors can be such a pain.

Just out of curiosity, Is that the latest version of Memtest your running?

Drake5 · 24 Apr 2015 at 22:29

Leon Axel said:
Don't recall ever hearing of them. Doesn't mean they are a bad brand per-se.

Load into desktop and see If you get a Blue screen after 15 minutes or so browsing the web, or whatever you usually do on your computer. Even so I would RMA If Memtest picks up errors. Memory errors can be such a pain.

Just out of curiosity, Is that the latest version of Memtest your running?

They were purchased from the MM so trying to get it resolved through the seller first - As far as I know it's the latest version of memtest I tried Windows in built memory tester as well and that picked up errors to