Testing RAM

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Soldato
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Hello,
I think my ram may be faulty, I keep getting errors (those blue screens) only since installing it (and i even upgraded my PSU as i thought maybe it couldn't cope with it or something)

Anyway, how can i test my ram? I remember ages ago using some osftware that I could boot with that tested it for hours, can't remember the name though.
 
Hi
OK. I am running it now. Is there anything I should be looking for? And what other causes could it be that makes these blue screens come up? Is it worth updating the bios on my motherboard (and kv8 i believe)
 
I am still running memtest.

So far its been running for 52 mins. It says its passed 1 thing, and 0 errors (And ECC is disabled).

Thinking about it, i did put in a new wifi card at about the same time (A day before) I put the memory in, so it *could* be related.

It isn't overclocked at all. Well, it looks like by 4mhz (not sure why... says the ram is running at 204mhz, should be 200 but i don't think it would make any difference)

How long should I run memtest for? It has had no errors so far...
 
I've got 2x1gb - what do you mean by running two instances?

I think i am going to wait till it finishes the second test (its on 72% now) then load up windows.

I recon it could now be my dynamode 54mbs wifi card. I found out dynamode are crap. They don't even have any drivers for the card to work in vista... (im running xp pro now, because of that...). May have to send it back and order a better one. I thought dynamode were a good company...
 
Yeh im doing it in the boot mode version way - not in windows :)

How can i fix the error then? Get a new wifi card, if it is that?

The thing is it doesn't really happen too often, so its quite hard to work out why it happens...
 
Just got one of those blue screens. It only stays up for a second or so, but the error this time was
[size=-1]PFN_LIST_CORRUPT [/size]
 
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