Lots of errors on Memtest

Drake5 · 10 Mar 2015 at 18:56

In my other PC I've been getting GPU errors with the driver stopping and then restarting so I decided to first memtest the ram in my PC.

RAM is 2 x 4GB

The first 2 minutes of memtest found many errors and after about 30 mins their was a total of 180+ errors.

I took one of the sticks out and tested individually, one of the sticks was fine. Replaced it with the other stick and within a couple of minutes their were errors again, tried the stick that had the errors in the other RAM slots and had the errors so it confirms it isn't a problem with my mobo.

This definitely confirms an issue with the RAM? I wasn't aware RAM could cause a GPU driver to crash though.....

wazza300 · 10 Mar 2015 at 18:59

depends whats being stored in the ram at the time

seems like you have a bad stick

coupe69 · 10 Mar 2015 at 19:45

I'd be pretty confident that after replacing the faulty RAM module your PC will work fine.

bledd · 10 Mar 2015 at 22:34

Which ram and motherboard?

I had some ocz ram that needed 2.1 volts to be stable (said so on the ram), mobo default was 1.8. On default settings I would get memtest errors.

coupe69 · 10 Mar 2015 at 23:28

bledd. said:
Which ram and motherboard?

I had some ocz ram that needed 2.1 volts to be stable (said so on the ram), mobo default was 1.8. On default settings I would get memtest errors.

Very true, although his other stick appears to be working fine with his default voltages. Worth a look though.

McGraw · 11 Mar 2015 at 06:58

So do your gpu errors go away when using the single good stick?