Memtest 86 results

[jawknee530]

I just ran memtest 86 v3.4 on my two sticks of ram seperately. each one had errors on test 7. Over 100 errors on each. Is there something else that can cause errors in this test or am I just unlucky enough to have two bad sticks of ram out of two?

 

[Gillbot]

do you have everything in BIOS set to auto or did you manyally set the timings and voltage? If auto, try manually setting them per the manufacturer's spec and try again.

 

[perdomot]

Running your ram at 850 is likely the cause. Try changing the settings so that its below 800.

 

[jawknee530]

ive tried both of these. it's 4 GB of g skill 1066 and i ran it at 800. i also took out that memory and put in a 2GB 800 kit i had in another pc and got errors on test 7 as well. im running this on a p5q pro. do asus and gski ljust dont get along?

 

[jawknee530]

i threw in some corsair value select 667 and they gave errors on test 7 as well. what could cause memtest errors like this?

 

[novasatori]

mobo problem or memtest not reading memory size from mobo properly

do you have another mobo to test?

if you read my other post you posted in, the gskill 4gb kit did PASS with non faulty sticks/mobo on the regular P5Q.

 

[jawknee530]

i actually just tested the memory in my gigabyte ga-p35-ds3 and it passed. so it looks like a bad mobo i guess.

 

[novasatori]

that sucks

at least I can still use mine with 1 stick, I'd be really disappointed if I had to RMA my mobo

 

[jawknee530]

i just took out my ide dvd drive and installed a sata one. now windows is installing fine without any bsod. im going to run memtest again but its looking better. before it would bsod in the first few minutes.

 

[firewolfsm]

also try the other two slots if you haven't.

 

[Majic 7]

On the Asus board make sure you have legacy USB support disabled. Just found this out after ordering replacement ram because I was getting errors on the 1066 Dominators I just bought. Intel boards have this problem also.