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Old 01-09-2008, 19:00   #1
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Testing Ram
Whats the best program to use to test Ram?

Ive been having memory dumps randomly for about 3 weeks and i wanna see what chip is faulty as i have 4 x 512mb.

i tried the microsoft one and i cant get my system to boot using it.

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The error i get is...
PFN_List_Corrupt
Stop: 0x0000004E (0x00000099,0x0000042E,0x00000007,0x00000000)
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Old 01-09-2008, 19:02   #2
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Re: Testing Ram
http://www.memtest86.com/

Click on the free download section.
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Old 01-09-2008, 22:39   #3
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Re: Testing Ram
i just did this, tested each chip 3 passes each and no errors?

Anything else i can try?
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Old 01-09-2008, 23:47   #4
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Re: Testing Ram
Memtest is the standard ram testing software. When I got faulty memory from Scan they asked me to test with this to make sure it was faulty. If Memtest says it's ok, then it should be ok.
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Re: Testing Ram
its doing my head in, even reinstalled windows and plonk it happened again.
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Re: Testing Ram
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
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http://www.memtest.org/
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Re: Testing Ram
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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/
memtest.org was the app I used to test the faulty memory I had. Warning, it takes ages to complete.
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Re: Testing Ram
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
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I would advise you to use 1GB sticks as I found the machine runs better using couple of gig sticks, you can pic em up cheap these days I have 3gig in my machine and the memory cost me £36.00 for 3 sticks
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Re: Testing Ram
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i just did this, tested each chip 3 passes each and no errors?

Anything else i can try?
Standard is about 8 hours "Wall Time" as Memtest86 calls it.
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Re: Testing Ram
If your still having memory dumps it could also be a recent driver change causing a conflict or another faulty piece of kit, after you have tried your different memory configurations if it still dosent work think of anything else you have installed since the crashes drivers or hardware then try replacing/removing them one by one untill you find your fault.

The full crash name should have some clue as to why it is crashing note it down then do a search for the crash name or number 00000159x or whatever it looks like, hope this helps you someway always a pain ;(.
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Re: Testing Ram
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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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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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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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Re: Testing Ram
Just finished running memtest overnight, it did 10 passes and no errors.
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It's obviously not your memory then. Better start looking elsewhere.
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any ideas what else? checked hard disks and no probs
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