A little over a month ago, I got a memory management BSOD when shutting down my PC (HP Z210 CMT) and runs of both windows own memory diagnostic tool and memtest 86+ showed that there were issues with the RAM, so I swapped it with RAM from another PC and put what I thought were the good modules in to test them there.
What I got from the memtest 86+ run on that was a sea of red where the original test only threw up one error, so I just put it aside until I could get another system out to test each stick individually.
Which brings things back to the present and when I dug out the spare to do the tests and for some unknown reason all 4 sticks (2x2GB Hynix, 1x8GB Hynix and 1x8GB kingston) all tested good even when I started running them in pairs to rule out the test not checking the part that was being allocated to graphics (which wasn't the case).
The only difference between the three systems (apart from the dust that was in the second system that I hadn't cleaned out) is that they were clocking the RAM at different speeds as the Z210 was running them at 1330Mhz, the second system (which is a HP SFF system with a A4-5300B) clocked the RAM at 1257Mhz while the third system (which was a zoostorm that had an asus H81M-K motherboard) clocked the RAM at the correct speed of 1333Mhz.
So can RAM suddenly start being fussy about being underclocked (as everything was working fine up until the blue screen) or am I missing something (the RAM I put in to replace the "faulty" stuff is working fine and passed a memtest run without issues).
What I got from the memtest 86+ run on that was a sea of red where the original test only threw up one error, so I just put it aside until I could get another system out to test each stick individually.
Which brings things back to the present and when I dug out the spare to do the tests and for some unknown reason all 4 sticks (2x2GB Hynix, 1x8GB Hynix and 1x8GB kingston) all tested good even when I started running them in pairs to rule out the test not checking the part that was being allocated to graphics (which wasn't the case).
The only difference between the three systems (apart from the dust that was in the second system that I hadn't cleaned out) is that they were clocking the RAM at different speeds as the Z210 was running them at 1330Mhz, the second system (which is a HP SFF system with a A4-5300B) clocked the RAM at 1257Mhz while the third system (which was a zoostorm that had an asus H81M-K motherboard) clocked the RAM at the correct speed of 1333Mhz.
So can RAM suddenly start being fussy about being underclocked (as everything was working fine up until the blue screen) or am I missing something (the RAM I put in to replace the "faulty" stuff is working fine and passed a memtest run without issues).