Hello all.
Right, I play games such as Battlefield 2142 and CS:Source/Half life 2, and from time to time I find the game crashing to desktop with a binary error. Because of this I decided to run memtest and to my dismay it found a fault with my memory. Right well, I decided to open the computer up and remove stick 2 from slot 2 on my motherboard, ran memtest and it passed. I put stick 1 in slot 2, ran memtest, it passed, I then took stick 1 out and put stick 2 in slot 1 and memtest passed, so I then put stick2 in slot 2 and ran memtest, it passed. Through confusment I decided to put both the sticks of RAM in the slots they were in when they failed on memtest before, I ran memtest again and it passed.
I was playing CS:Source today (about a week after having removed and moved the memory around and the machine working fine since the RAM movement) and it decided to crash to desktop with a lovely binary error again. So I ran memtest once more and it's now failing again. Below I have provided screenshots.
Memtest results after CS:Source binary crash a week a go (let it run two cycles):
Memtest a week later after the computer having run fine without fault:
I decided to install Speedfan and see what my voltages were, results are the following:
Is it the RAM that's at fault? Could it be the motherboard or is it the PSU? Any suggestions / comments would be greatly appreciated. This is really starting to annoy me now
. In both screenshots of memtest being ran a week before and today the fault is in the same place (same address). Could it be the PSU outputing the wrong voltages? As it was working for a week fine after I moved the RAM sticks aound :\.
Comp specs are the following:
1x AMD Athlon 64 3700 CPU Skt 939 San Diego
Zalman 120mm Super Flower Cooler AMD
Asus A8N-E SKT 939 NForce4 Audio LAN PCI-Express ATX
19" TFT Samsung 8ms 700:1 Silver + Black
Corsair (TWINX1024-3200C2PT) 1024MB (2 x 512MB Matched Pair), DDR400 / PC3200
WD High Performance 250Gb SATA 2 HDD 16Mb Cache
2x NEC 16x DVD-RW Dual Layer Internal IDE (Black)
Antec SmartPower 2 450PGB 450W PSU - Atx 2.01 Dual Rails
ATi X1800 GT0 Excalibur Turbo ICEQ3 Silent 256MB GDDR3
Best regards,
Breaks.
Right, I play games such as Battlefield 2142 and CS:Source/Half life 2, and from time to time I find the game crashing to desktop with a binary error. Because of this I decided to run memtest and to my dismay it found a fault with my memory. Right well, I decided to open the computer up and remove stick 2 from slot 2 on my motherboard, ran memtest and it passed. I put stick 1 in slot 2, ran memtest, it passed, I then took stick 1 out and put stick 2 in slot 1 and memtest passed, so I then put stick2 in slot 2 and ran memtest, it passed. Through confusment I decided to put both the sticks of RAM in the slots they were in when they failed on memtest before, I ran memtest again and it passed.
I was playing CS:Source today (about a week after having removed and moved the memory around and the machine working fine since the RAM movement) and it decided to crash to desktop with a lovely binary error again. So I ran memtest once more and it's now failing again. Below I have provided screenshots.
Memtest results after CS:Source binary crash a week a go (let it run two cycles):
Memtest a week later after the computer having run fine without fault:
I decided to install Speedfan and see what my voltages were, results are the following:
Is it the RAM that's at fault? Could it be the motherboard or is it the PSU? Any suggestions / comments would be greatly appreciated. This is really starting to annoy me now
. In both screenshots of memtest being ran a week before and today the fault is in the same place (same address). Could it be the PSU outputing the wrong voltages? As it was working for a week fine after I moved the RAM sticks aound :\.Comp specs are the following:
1x AMD Athlon 64 3700 CPU Skt 939 San Diego
Zalman 120mm Super Flower Cooler AMD
Asus A8N-E SKT 939 NForce4 Audio LAN PCI-Express ATX
19" TFT Samsung 8ms 700:1 Silver + Black
Corsair (TWINX1024-3200C2PT) 1024MB (2 x 512MB Matched Pair), DDR400 / PC3200
WD High Performance 250Gb SATA 2 HDD 16Mb Cache
2x NEC 16x DVD-RW Dual Layer Internal IDE (Black)
Antec SmartPower 2 450PGB 450W PSU - Atx 2.01 Dual Rails
ATi X1800 GT0 Excalibur Turbo ICEQ3 Silent 256MB GDDR3
Best regards,
Breaks.
