Dann0 Posted September 15, 2005 Share Posted September 15, 2005 I bought 2 512 chips, when I first installed them everything worked great. Next reboot my computer was running very slowly. I checked and my comptuer properties were only showing 16MB of ram. I rebooted and the memory check failed and the bios set the ram level to 16mb. I swapped the slots each chip was plugged into, worked fine, 1 gig of RAM. Rebooted and all of a sudden I'm down to 600mb of ram with the same memory check error. If the computer boots with the full 1 gig of ram, it often times BSODs within 2 or 3 minutes, if it boots up with the 600 meg I can work away fine for days upon days. Its a dell inspiron 1100 with the latest bios update from dell. Like to know what my next steps are, I can post the full memory error if it is needed, it basically says it failed and gives what I assume is the memory address. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted September 15, 2005 Corsair Employee Share Posted September 15, 2005 Please test the modules one at a time with http://www.memtest.org and lets make sure one is not failing. If you still get errors, please follow the link in my signature “I think I have a bad part!” and we will be happy to replace them or it! However, if you get errors with both modules that would suggest some other problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dann0 Posted September 16, 2005 Author Share Posted September 16, 2005 How long should this take to run? Mine ran for over 12 hours before I finally just stopped it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dann0 Posted September 16, 2005 Author Share Posted September 16, 2005 Nevermind, I actually bothered to read the page. I'm re-executing now and made sure my bios detected all 1 gig of ram, I've got an error, will post it when the tests are done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dann0 Posted September 16, 2005 Author Share Posted September 16, 2005 Tst Pass Failing Address Good Bad Err-Bits Count Chan 2 0 0002722ff7c - 626.9MB 00000 0000ff7c 0000ff7c 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted September 16, 2005 Corsair Employee Share Posted September 16, 2005 So are both modules failing or just one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dann0 Posted September 16, 2005 Author Share Posted September 16, 2005 From what I say, just one. From what the tests say I have no idea. do you want me to run the tests with each stick on its own? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted September 16, 2005 Corsair Employee Share Posted September 16, 2005 Yes, please test them one at a time with http://www.memtest.org. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dann0 Posted September 17, 2005 Author Share Posted September 17, 2005 Ok I have one that is fine, and one that fails test #2 at 109 meg. Which I assume accounts for my 600 odd megs of RAM when I boot up most of the time. So where do we go from here? Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted September 19, 2005 Corsair Employee Share Posted September 19, 2005 Let's get them both replaced. Please follow the link in my signature “I think I have a bad part!” and we will be happy to replace them or it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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