memtest question

[novasatori]

I've got 2 2gb sticks of g-skill, both pass test 5 and usually full tests one at a time, but when I put em in together it fails sometimes (had it pass once before)

when it finds an error tho it either hard locks or freezes the test repeatedly testing the same sector of ram over and over.

is this because its accessing a reserved area of ram at some point in the test?

both sticks pass windows mem diag (but it can't do the 4gb at once) flawlessly, its only memtest that gives problems with 4gb

 

[degibson]

It could be one of your DIMM slots or even your nothbridge -- try a similar testing run in another machine.

 

[geofelt]

Some motherboards like ASUS have problems with memory testing programs.
Is it possible that your RAM needs a bit more voltage with two sticks?

 

[LOUISSSSS]

did u test the sticks in the same slot? and how long did u test for? i suggest run the entire memtest for 24 hours for each DIMM

 

[tcsenter]

Originally posted by: geofelt
Some motherboards like ASUS have problems with memory testing programs.

Not limited to ASUS. I recently was browsing through the BIOS release history for several Intel motherboards, trying to find a technical blurb I remember seeing before (related to a different issue/discussion).

I found several entries for 'Fixed some memory test or diagnostic utility hangs or reports false memory errors when Legacy USB support is enabled in BIOS.'

But you are otherwise correct. Try disabling USB Legacy support in BIOS.

 

[DSF]

I would also make sure that you're supplying whatever voltage the manufacturer specifies for the speed the modules are running.

 

[novasatori]

I tested one last night for 8hr by itself, no errors.

Gonna try the other tonight while I sleep in the same slot as this other one. Then after, I guess I will try disabling some bios options and testing both together, but it always usually errors out with both, except I did get it to successfully do 1 pass together, only once though.

They're g-skill 1066 rated at 1.8v @ 800mhz which is what I'm running em at.

Mobo is an ASUS P5Q


FWIW The whole reason I decided to test the ram is that I am getting KERNEL_STACK_INPAGE_AREA BSOD.

There's not much info on the error besides possible virus, spyware, bad ram, hd, or driver problems.


I've got current antivirus/spybot & chkdisk on HDs, so that leaves ram & drivers, and its a fresh winxp x64 install so I'm almost certain its not drivers, because it was doing it with my old xp x86 install, and my wife's computer with exact same hardware is running fine, the only difference is I have 1 extra liteon dvd burner and an extra sata HD.

 

[jawknee530]

I am having a problem with the same ram and mobo as you. I am attempting to install windows on this new build but it keeps bsoding on me. memtest shows errors on both sticks individually for me though.

 

[novasatori]

i just tested my wife's comp and it passed with both 2gb sticks in (not my sticks, but another set) so I know for sure that memtest should be able to pass without errors on the p5q with this memory, so it seems I definitely have one bad stick at least.

so I'm gonna try to figure out which is bad or RMA em both.

 

[novasatori]

found the bad stick
one finally failed a couple times by itself

rmaing today hopefully.

 

[Majic 7]

Originally posted by: tcsenter

Originally posted by: geofelt
Some motherboards like ASUS have problems with memory testing programs.

Not limited to ASUS. I recently was browsing through the BIOS release history for several Intel motherboards, trying to find a technical blurb I remember seeing before (related to a different issue/discussion).

I found several entries for 'Fixed some memory test or diagnostic utility hangs or reports false memory errors when Legacy USB support is enabled in BIOS.'

But you are otherwise correct. Try disabling USB Legacy support in BIOS.

Wish I had seen this post earlier. Ordered some replacement ram because Prime 95 would crap out after 3 minutes with stock settings, no OC. Saw a post by Yellowbeard on XS about the legacy USB thing last night. Tried it and no more errors.