Memory problems

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I have been having sporadic problems with my system rebooting for no
apparent reason as well as IE crashing (again for no apparent reason). I
have Win XP Pro on an ABIT KX-333 and it doesn't happen all the time,
perhaps once per week. I am trying to find the suspect memory.
I have two sticks of PC2700 DDR memory CAS-2 (256k each). One stick is from
Kingston and one is from Crucial). I don't do overclocking/tweaking.

I ran both memtest86 as well as Microsoft's memory testers and one of the
tests fails. Microsoft's test of STRIDE6 always fails. MEMTEST86's test 6
always fails (I assume these tests are the same across the software). I only
ran these tests for about half an hour.

My next step is to take one memory stick out and re-test, then swap the
memory and test again.

Any other ideas/suggestions for me on testing and identifying the 'bad'
stick?

Thanks,
Walter

 

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"Walter Cohen" wrote
> I have been having sporadic problems with my system rebooting for no
> apparent reason as well as IE crashing (again for no apparent reason). I
> have Win XP Pro on an ABIT KX-333 and it doesn't happen all the time,
> perhaps once per week. I am trying to find the suspect memory.
> I have two sticks of PC2700 DDR memory CAS-2 (256k each). One stick is
from
> Kingston and one is from Crucial). I don't do overclocking/tweaking.


Hi,
there is a good discussion of memtest errors here:

Bleedinedge Forums - Memtest86 discussion
http://tinyurl.com/22bdl

I think its best to take out one of your DIMMS and start testing. You need
to find out what timings/FSB/voltages each RAM stick can run. You may have
some flaky RAM or perhaps you have a duff memory slot?

Good luck!
--
Wayne ][
<Sign on door reads: Please Do No Disturb! Pentium 4 assembly in progress!>

 

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nope, sounds about right

you have to isolate which one is bad. logic would suggest removing one of
them and testing to see which one it is.

NuTs

"Walter Cohen" <w_cohen@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I have been having sporadic problems with my system rebooting for no
> apparent reason as well as IE crashing (again for no apparent reason). I
> have Win XP Pro on an ABIT KX-333 and it doesn't happen all the time,
> perhaps once per week. I am trying to find the suspect memory.
> I have two sticks of PC2700 DDR memory CAS-2 (256k each). One stick is
from
> Kingston and one is from Crucial). I don't do overclocking/tweaking.
>
> I ran both memtest86 as well as Microsoft's memory testers and one of the
> tests fails. Microsoft's test of STRIDE6 always fails. MEMTEST86's test 6
> always fails (I assume these tests are the same across the software). I
only
> ran these tests for about half an hour.
>
> My next step is to take one memory stick out and re-test, then swap the
> memory and test again.
>
> Any other ideas/suggestions for me on testing and identifying the 'bad'
> stick?
>
> Thanks,
> Walter
>
>

 

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maybe also relax the timings, or try raising the voltage.

--

Good Luck!
BB


"NuT CrAcKeR" <nutcracker@internationalhacker.org> wrote in message
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> nope, sounds about right
>
> you have to isolate which one is bad. logic would suggest removing one of
> them and testing to see which one it is.
>
> NuTs
>
> "Walter Cohen" <w_cohen@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> newsdmcc.16727$7r2.2644730@news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net...
> > I have been having sporadic problems with my system rebooting for no
> > apparent reason as well as IE crashing (again for no apparent reason). I
> > have Win XP Pro on an ABIT KX-333 and it doesn't happen all the time,
> > perhaps once per week. I am trying to find the suspect memory.
> > I have two sticks of PC2700 DDR memory CAS-2 (256k each). One stick is
> from
> > Kingston and one is from Crucial). I don't do overclocking/tweaking.
> >
> > I ran both memtest86 as well as Microsoft's memory testers and one of
the
> > tests fails. Microsoft's test of STRIDE6 always fails. MEMTEST86's test
6
> > always fails (I assume these tests are the same across the software). I
> only
> > ran these tests for about half an hour.
> >
> > My next step is to take one memory stick out and re-test, then swap the
> > memory and test again.
> >
> > Any other ideas/suggestions for me on testing and identifying the 'bad'
> > stick?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Walter
> >
> >
>
>

 

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"NuT CrAcKeR" <nutcracker@internationalhacker.org> wrote in message
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> nope, sounds about right
>
> you have to isolate which one is bad. logic would suggest removing one of
> them and testing to see which one it is.
>

Maybe (probably) both are fine and when used separately they will run
without problems. But they don't like each other. It' s always recommanded
to use the same modules or at least modules with identical features (which
is difficult to track).