weird memtest out come after ramdon bsod

buzzlightweight · 9 Oct 2011 at 21:34

ok while gaming i had two warnings pop up about a serious hardware failer then a bsod a1 error which i googled and it turns out to be a ram problem!

i re booted my pc and looked into memtest, while i was on the memtest site i noticed my ram maxing out so i re booted again and everything was fine?

i ran memtest on one stick for 7 passes then as the 7th pass finished this happened........

it was still running but does this mean i have a faulty stick of ram?

many thanks

jamesfreddie · 9 Oct 2011 at 22:05

Try to test one stick at a time. Then see if you get this error again on each stick. Also do you have onboard video.

buzzlightweight · 9 Oct 2011 at 22:08

jamesfreddie said:
Try to test one stick at a time. Then see if you get this error again on each stick. Also do you have onboard video.

i was doing one stick and i have a gpu as well as on board. why do you ask that?

jamesfreddie · 9 Oct 2011 at 22:16

because it could be bad DRAM causing artifacts. Have you done the other stick.

buzzlightweight · 9 Oct 2011 at 23:07

yes iv done both and neither have bought up any issues? since its had its little spat its been working fine?

gamerdude1989 · 10 Oct 2011 at 06:14

ahhh ive had this exact same issue in the past.
Hopefully, like my case, Nothing to worry about.
Mine was down to a slight power surge.
I then checked my volt/amp/whattage meter that my pc is always plugged into, and it did state a previous small power surge, gave the ram a little too much juice, so it crapped out for a split time.

hopefully yours is nothing to worry about either.

buzzlightweight · 10 Oct 2011 at 14:54

gamerdude1989 said:
ahhh ive had this exact same issue in the past.
Hopefully, like my case, Nothing to worry about.
Mine was down to a slight power surge.
I then checked my volt/amp/whattage meter that my pc is always plugged into, and it did state a previous small power surge, gave the ram a little too much juice, so it crapped out for a split time.

hopefully yours is nothing to worry about either.

That would make a lot of sense! I will have get my dad To bring his multimeter round and set it up for me

Thanks bud