Weird Error in Memtest86 - Please help

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Mobo - ASUS P5K Pro (flashed to latest 1303 bios)
CPU - Intel E8500 Wolfdale
Memory - Crucial Ballistix PC6400 DDR2 (4x1 Gig Sticks)

Everything is at stock values (no overclock).

Ok, I have been getting random crashes in games so I decided to run a Memtest86 to see if I have memory issues.

I fired up Memtest86 and it reboots on the second test (Test#1, test own address). Which cant be good.

So I pull all the DIMM's and put one back in. Memtest is fine (left it running for a bit).
Put another DIMM back in. Still fine
And another. Still ok.
Put the fourth DIMM back in and it reboots on the first test again.

So, I figure that we have a bad DIMM. Pull them all again and put the last one added in on its own. Memtest runs fine. :eek:
Start adding DIMM's back in one by one until yet again, when there are four DIMM's in the board Memtest reboots on the second test.

I have tried various combo's of DIMM + slot and it seems to be fine up to 3 DIMM's. The minute I add the fourth, boom (note the PC will boot fine into Windows 7 with 4 DIMM's).

So, I am either thinking, some weird BIOS configuration issue or I need a new motherboard (hope not) :confused:

Anyone got any suggestions ?
 
Sigh, I was using version 3.5 which must be buggy.

The tests work fine with version 3.4 and version 4.0 :rolleyes:

Still crashing the minute I put AA on in any game though ...
 
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