Memtest86+ only sometimes giving errors (?)

Ossahib

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Hey everyone,

So the last few days I've been trying to find out what the heck is going on with my self built pc. I've been receiving memory management bosds over the past few weeks. Lately more than usual. Windows memory diagnostics tool gave me no errors so I thought all was fine. I ran a memtest86+ test the other day to be sure, but within seconds received thousands of errors. I was just about to send them back for RMA until the other morning I ran the same test one last time and no errors were given after 10+ hours of testing my ram. The only difference was that I had unplugged, cleaned and plugged the ram sticks back in my motherboard. Thinking this nightmare was finally over, to my horror my pc crashed again randomly this morning (memory_management bosd), so I booted memtest again and errors started piling up again... Just now I switched both my sticks to DIMM slots 1 and 3 instead of 2 and 4 on my motherboard and now memtest has stopped giving me errors again. What on earth is going on? My ram sticks are running on the provided XMP profiles and my cpu is not overclocked (I did recently oc my cpu moderately, changing the vcore to 1.2 and ratio to 44. I ran stresstest for hours without errors, temps always under 75C, but I defaulted everything in bios prior to running memtest this morning). Hopefully some of you can give me some insight into what I should do next.

I hope you can help me out on this one! Thanks!
 
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Hmm sounds like static builds up (not necessarily on your RAM modules), when taking them off and reseating them you're essentially discharging your whole mobo thus it works fine up until static recharges again causing errors.

Try breadboarding your system (everything outside the case on a breadboard box), perhaps for an entire day or two and use it normally (plug in the HDDs ofc), lets see if the problem disappears when using it outside the case.

Hmm sounds like static builds up (not necessarily on your RAM modules), when taking them off and reseating them you're essentially discharging your whole mobo thus it works fine up until static recharges again causing errors.

Try breadboarding your system (everything outside the case on a breadboard box), perhaps for an entire day or two and use it normally (plug in the HDDs ofc), lets see if the problem disappears when using it outside the case.

 
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Ossahib

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Crap. Accidentally selected your answer as the solution. Thanks for the reply anyway! I'll give it a try later today :)
 

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