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Old 03-09-2008, 03:29   #12
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Re: Testing Ram
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Originally Posted by admars View Post
when in Windows haev you looked at event viewer (start->settings -> control panel-> administartive tools-> event viewer) to see what else may be causing errors?
as well as memtest86
http://www.memtest86.com/
there is
memtest86+
http://www.memtest.org/
all i get is a DHCP error

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Originally Posted by David F View Post
Run the system on 2 x512 and see if it crashes . If it does run the machine on the other 2 if all is good swap one of the sticks with one from the crashing pair if its good then you test the last stick and in theory it should crash. If it does not then you may have a controller fault and will have to use 2x512 for now
this is what i did

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Originally Posted by Druchii View Post
Standard is about 8 hours "Wall Time" as Memtest86 calls it.
i will put it on again overnight to do a full test then.
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