new ram - memtest single error

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Hi all,
I built my latest sytem 3 months ago..

crosshair IV
4gb corsair XMS3 (2x2gb) (slots 1 & 3)

Not overclocked (default everything)

As I make extensive use of VM's on a daily basis I always intended to take the RAM to 8gb in the future.

I bought another 2x2gb set of XMS3 and fitted it this morning (slots 2 & 4). I booted into xp64 and as soon as the desktop appeared I got a BSOD. I went into BIOS and checked I wasn't oc'ing anything. Everything is set to auto. (not sure if the MB attempts any auto OCing though?)

I rebooted again and got a BSOD after about 3 minutes at the desktop

So I booted to memtest+ and ran the default test. 20 minutes through the 1st pass on test 7 I get one error message.

I am still running through a 2nd pass at the moment.

Should I RTM these new modules immediately or is there anything else I need to test / check first?

Also if I do need to RTM do I return them to overclockers or to corsair?

Thanks,

J
 
not yet. I don't much like messing with the bios settings too much. But I'll give it a go after this 2nd pass completes.

I know very little about this sort of stuff but I am assuming if the same single address fails on the 2nd pass that it's probably not a voltage error? ie I would expect multiple errors at multiple addresses if the voltage was too low? Just an uneducated assumption though!
 
Update:

So on the 2nd pass of Memtest, no errors were found. So I tried manually setting the dram voltage (it was at ~1.52 on auto, I raised it to 1.60)

Booted into windows. Still got BSOD after short time.

So I removed the new sticks & rebooted - stable for 15 minutes.

Refitted the new memory, taking care to ensure they were seated properly. (This automatically resets the voltage to auto - I checked)

No BSOD for 10 minutes so far. So maybe one of the sticks just wasn't seated correctly?

The machine is always on so I guess it's just a matter of time now to see if it is stable.
 
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