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  1. 22nd March 2011, 10:14 AM #1
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    memory testing

    I have been testing memory modules for the last 4 hours,,
    which is not long (aparently) in the memory testing game,,

    however,
    the inbuilt vista memory test program
    shows a HARDWARE fault with all 4 2gb sticks in place,,
    running single and double sticks in any config doesnt bring this fault.

    the official windows memory test shows no faults with single sticks,

    memtest86 V4(beta) shows 48 errors within the first 27% of first pass running 4 sticks.

    the first run on a single has passed that point with no errors

    please dont tell me to let it run for 10 passes or 8 hours,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

    I have set the ram voltage to 2 as per the advertised amount.

    I have run all tests using my old 4x1gb sticks with no errors

    motherboard is good to 8gb
    any ideas?


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  2. 22nd March 2011, 10:23 AM #2
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    In my experience most errors become apparent in minutes, only very infrequently do you need to run very long burn in tests.

    Given you have tested all sticks individually, and in pairs, I would suggest a mainboard issue.
    Maybe upgrade your BIOS.
    I would let the mobo decide which voltage to run also, instead of forcing.

    What RAM is it? (DDR2/3)
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  3. 22nd March 2011, 10:37 AM #3
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    +1 to the bios upgrade

    There were several gigabyte chipsets that had a bios bug which would cause exactly what your talking about however they would be 2 or 3 year old boards now.

    I would also suggest downloading a linux live cd that has a mem-test program on it. I believe alot of the ubuntu discs came with mem-test as one of the boot options
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  4. 22nd March 2011, 10:58 AM #4
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    and don't discount a power issue.

    the bios update would be first cab off the rank for me...
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  5. 22nd March 2011, 11:01 AM #5
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    Yeah exactly.
    My last Gigabyte board had a bug which only affected you when running Kingston brand RAM of a particular model, guess which RAM I bought...
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  6. 22nd March 2011, 11:13 AM #6
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    these 2gb sticks are kingston,,,

    what was your result ashhhhh?
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  7. 22nd March 2011, 11:29 AM #7
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    Ahha..surely they have solved this one! (this happened to me about 5 years ago now)

    They release an updated BIOS which resolved this issue.
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  8. 22nd March 2011, 11:42 AM #8
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    maybe,,

    anyone remember how to access the intel raid setup screen on boot?
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  9. 22nd March 2011, 12:15 PM #9
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    F2?
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  10. 22nd March 2011, 05:58 PM #10
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    no,,.
    or at least not so I can tell,,,
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