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johnt

johnt

johnt

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Hey All,

I got the following bundle in April and to begin with it was spot on:

Intel Pentium Dual-Core E6500 @ 3.60GHz / Gigabyte GA-P43-ES3G Intel P43 Motherboard / Corsair XMS2 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5 DDR2 Bundle

However, a couple of months ago I had a major crash that took out my WD Caviar Black TB HD - completely died and not even recognised by BIOS. I fresh installed a couple of OS Windows XP & Windows 7, but have had persistent BSOD with totally varied messages (lots of 0x000....as well as MEMORY_MANAGEMENT, PFN_CORRUPT, DRIVER_IRQL_LESS_..., BAD_POOL_HEADER, Ntfs.sys, Fltmgr.sys, dxgmms.sys, ACPI.sys, rdyboost.sys, ati2dvay.dll etc etc).

So, since then I have updated chipset and motherboard drivers, drivers for my Radeon 3400, replaced video card with nVidia 9800 GT (and webcam!), used MS Memory diagnostics (no errors), extensively tested HDs, used Killdisk and reinstalled OS and probably other stuff.

Recently, however, I used MemTest86 and Memtest86+, both left running for a minimum of eight hours and I've got photos of both results, but can't seem to upload them to this post. Bottom line, MemTest froze after 2.5h with ten errors on test 5, lowest error address 000000004ef - 0.0MB, highest error address 00119b29691 - 4507.5MB, and MemTest86+ froze after ~7h with 1455 errors and a whole load of red stuff identifying >30 stacks.

So, I guess my question is, from the above can anyone help me to confirm that the memory is the (or at least a) cause of all my BSODs, becase I guess if it is, OCUK might replace the memory since it should still be under warranty.

Thanks very much in advance, I'm kind of at wits end with these BSODs. If anyone wants to see the photos just let me know and I'll email them.

Cheers,

J
 
I have very rarely seen memtest fail for any other reason than bad memory. So yeah 99% certain it is the memory.

I would try one stick, then the other by themselves and work out if both sticks are bad or just one.

Corsair have a lifetime warranty so if it is the memory you can RMA it and get replacements.
 
Hodders,
Cheers very much for your advice, which I followed. Slightly confusing results though, which I think is pointing to the motherboard instead. I tested each of the two sticks, one at a time, in each of the four slots:
Stick 1
DDR1 - hundreds of errors in less than a minute
DDR2 - no errors after ~8hours
DDR3 - MemTest won't even start
DDR4 - several errors in about a minute
Stick 2
DDR1 - hundreds of errors in less than a minute
DDR2 - no errors after a couple of hours
DDR3 - won't load MemTest
DDR4 - Errors
Seems to me that three of the slots are compromised, whereas one is not? Really appreciate your view...oh, and love the Bill Hicks =)
Cheers,
J
 
I think it's the motherboard. The memory controller is in the north bridge (P43) with that set up and the variety of error messages combined with the test above don't point to just one stick of RAM.
 
What was the RMA process for you like? It does seem like a faulty board, so is everything all sorted now?
 
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