Potential Bad Memory.

kwjorders

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I have a asus p7p55 ws supercomputer motherboard with 4 slots of DDR 3 and after my computer crashed a few months ago and I tried to do a repair install but received an error message that said my SSD boot drive was locked. After scanning memory with memtest I realized this was because my two OCZ 4GB sticks of memory are bad and after removing them the computer could boot into windows again. Now I am wondering what the best way of testing the slots those two memory sticks were in are still good? I'm afraid that the slots are bad to and if I put my two good sticks of memory in those slots they may break my good memory. Also I could put the bad memory in another computer but I don't think that is a good idea as well. OK the question is what is the best way to find out if my motherboard is still good or not?
-Thanks
 
Solution
You can shuffle your suspected RAM into the good slots or your good RAM into the suspected bad slots without concern. I've done it many times to confirm if it was the RAM or the slot.