Memory problem (blue screens)

[Simone Anghileri]

Hello,
I've been dealing for some time with frequent crashes (blue screens), most of the time with error related to memory. (page fault in nonpaged area). I run some tests with memtest on my RAM ( 2x1gb) and sometimes the output is a huge number of errors and sometimes i get no errors. I also tried to test single banks of memory and I didn't find any error in this case. I was wandering if this could be a motherboard problem. I would like to be sure before replacing my RAM.Could you please help me?Thank you

 

[nipathik]

Hello,
I've been dealing for some time with frequent crashes (blue screens), most of the time with error related to memory. (page fault in nonpaged area). I run some tests with memtest on my RAM ( 2x1gb) and sometimes the output is a huge number of errors and sometimes i get no errors. I also tried to test single banks of memory and I didn't find any error in this case. I was wandering if this could be a motherboard problem. I would like to be sure before replacing my RAM.Could you please help me?Thank you

ya it could be problem of your motherboard, you have to check each one ram individually in one slot which you found ok, if it's give you no error then final that one of your slot make problem.

 

[Tradesman1]

It may well be a lack of DRAM more than anything else, what CPU/mobo are you running? For the moment I'd try increasing the size of your Page file which appears to be running out of room from lack of available DRAM

 

[Simone Anghileri]

CPU is intel e6600, Mobo is an ASUS p5k.

 

[Tradesman1]

Increase the size of your page file, and would deffinitely look to add some DRAM

 

[Simone Anghileri]

I tried to increase the size of the page file but with no success. I tested each bank individually in each slot and it gave me non errors. I really don't understand...

 

[eatmypie]

Which memtest are you using the built into windows one or memtest86, or memtest86 from a linux destro?

 

[Simone Anghileri]

Which memtest are you using the built into windows one or memtest86, or memtest86 from a linux destro?

The windows one.

 

[Simone Anghileri]

download memtest86 without any linux destros on it and test it

I tried and I get the same results.

 

[eatmypie]

what ram are you using brand latency timing's

 

[Simone Anghileri]

I have 2 banks of team group 1gb ddr2 800mhz, latency times 5-5-5-15

 

[eatmypie]

Yeah your ram is probably really faulty/bad if you are getting errors in memtest86 which would show you your ram performing without any page files show errors then yes your ram is bad, just get like a value ram kit from corsair or g.skill. just make sure you get at least a 4gig kit for performance and longevity of your system

 

[Simone Anghileri]

Yeah your ram is probably really faulty/bad if you are getting errors in memtest86 which would show you your ram performing without any page files show errors then yes your ram is bad, just get like a value ram kit from corsair or g.skill. just make sure you get at least a 4gig kit for performance and longevity of your system

What is strange to me is that I get errors ony when I test blocks together, whereas when I test them individually I get no errors. Very strange. I hope that getting some new RAM will solve the problem.

 

[eatmypie]

how many dimms do you have?

 

[Simone Anghileri]

how many dimms do you have?

two

 

[eatmypie]

Yeah just get a single 4gig stick then

 

[Simone Anghileri]

ok thank you