musk Posted February 19, 2005 Share Posted February 19, 2005 Hi. I just build a new system from the following parts: Asus A8N sli Deluxe amd64 3500+ Corsair 1024MB DDR400 TwinX Matched Pair 3200XL Xfx Gef 6800 gt pci-e Antec Neopower 480 When playing games like doom3, cs etc. it all runs fine for about 20 mins, then it suddenly crashes giving memory errors. When running memtest I get an overload of these errors -> screen I was also struck by a couple of them good old blue screens, memory dumps :[pouts: People are telling me this is because I have a defected memory module or is it software/bios based? Hope u guys can help. Greets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musk Posted February 19, 2005 Author Share Posted February 19, 2005 I noticed that upping the DDR voltage significantly decreases the amount of errors, rough guess about 80 percent... still get errors in memtest, just not so often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted February 20, 2005 Share Posted February 20, 2005 What is your voltage set to? Test one stick at a time in each slot and use http://www.memtest.org to test memory, as it is bootable. The one you have tested it with can be subceptible windows problems. Also, some of the memory is being used by windows and as such can't be tested by your program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musk Posted February 20, 2005 Author Share Posted February 20, 2005 When leaving the voltage at auto it crashes *ALOT* more often and get's me *ALOT* more errors in memtest then when I put the DDR voltage to 2.9... But since I am not over clocking this shouldn't be neccesary right? k I'll do that right now... Last night I ran prime95 which lasted for over 3 hours when finally getting an error. -> screen I'll test each module seperately now. PS: some people are telling me to up my timings, but for ram that's not overclocked why would this be usefull? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musk Posted February 20, 2005 Author Share Posted February 20, 2005 hmz so 1 memory module wasn't bootin but I had a suspicious feeling about the banks on my mobo... so it appears that my A1 memory bank is busted... when using one module it won't boot in A1 but it will in all the others banks... so instead of faulty memory it's actually just a crappy mobo... srry to have doubted ur quality :(: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted February 20, 2005 Share Posted February 20, 2005 No problem. That's why testing is asked to be done one at a time in multiple slots, for problems like these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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