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shagmanjug

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I have been having issues with my pc memory from day one. I thought I had motherboard issues due to memory passing memtest so I purchased a new Asus Sabertooth mother board and put the gigabyte board back in its box. Im still having issues though. When I get home from work I power up my pc to see that only 4gb of my ram is showing on boot up screen instead of 6gb. Shutdown and power back up and then I show all memory sticks. Why would a memory module not power up with a pc or not be recognized on initial start up and require a shutdown and power cycle to show up? I use Corsair Dominator DDR3 TR3X6G1600C8D at stock 8-8-8-24 settings.
 
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pass memtest as in 1 or 2 passes or let it run multiple passes for several hours? if the first, then try the latter.
 
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I can try multiple passes. Even if the pc shows all 3 sticks it seems that after awhile the thing occasionally locks up on me with minimal cpu and memory usage in taskmngr.
 
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Memtest86 is a directly bootable utility; there is no OS.

If you still get random lock-ups with that, it rules out the OS, its drivers and whatever software you have floating around your system as probable causes.
 
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Oh no lock ups using memtest. Just occasional lock ups when using the pc. I did 2 passes and the memory passed. He sugested more than 2 passes above, which I can try to see if that picks up a bad stick of memory.
 
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Yes that is correct. Well after I removed one stick of memory to leave me with 4 gb, the next day I booted up and found I only had 2gb. I took the memory I had pulled out and swapped it with one of the other sticks. After 3 days of shutting down at night and booting after work next day I have had all my memory and the computer boots past the screen so fast that I cant see the memory check. But windows shows 4gb so I assume the one stick I have laying here on my desk was the culprit. Ugh. Ill box this stick up and hopefully corsair can replace it. Should I pack up all 3 sticks?
 
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