[GLLUG] Memtest86+

[Stanley C. Mortel]

Years ago I had a somewhat similar problem.  I was able to test the RAM in 
an identical PC and things went fine.  Turned out it was a bad memory bus 
on the motherboard.  Didn't show up until the amount of RAM was 
increased.  Just a thought.

Stan

At 09:17 PM 10/23/2008 -0400, you wrote:
>I have a question for you hardware-diddlers out there.  I bought 1GB of
>PC133 SDRAM for a Mac.  I got Crucial and it was highly rated (by a
>whopping 4 people) on newegg.com.
>
>I put it into an ASUS A7V system to test it.  I have a 256MB PC133 DIMM
>that works fine and tests fine with Memtest86+.  However, when I put
>either of the 512MB DIMMs into the system and run the test, it will fail
>on test #8.  It seems a rather odd coincidence for both of them to fail
>the same test, but the 256 passes just fine.
>
>I'm running Memtest86 on one of the DIMMs in a different slot on the
>mobo to see if that might have something to do with it, but it seems
>unlikely as the 256 tested just fine.
>
>Is there perhaps some idiosyncrasy of which I may not be aware that
>could be causing this?  I don't want to RMA this RAM only to find that
>the test was flawed, not the memory...
>
>Thanks!





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