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)
 
That error (Specifically the 0x000000000 bit)is when an application is pointing to an empty memory address, which normally means fudged RAM or something overclocked too high.
 
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...
 
That seems fine, it would've combed over your RAM a few times by now (presuming you have 2gb or less). You have to make sure you're running two instances though if you have more than 512, just thought I'd mention it incase you missed the prompt it gives you.

In device manager are there any conflicts, this could be something to do with it as it's mentioning IRQ's in the error too.
 
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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...
 
Ah you're not doing it in windows? That makes sense, it's better doing it your way :p When running in windows it only uses a maximum of something like 700mb at a time so you have to run it twice to cover all the ram otherwise it just tests the same bit over and over.

Thinking about it, it's most likely a hardware conflict, after reading up about that error it seems that not less or equal shizznit is to do with conflicting hardware.
 
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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