I had a stick of Micron 256Meg pc2100 installed on my new Abit KR7A133 that came up as "good" on several memory tests UNTIL I ran Memtest86. It failed miserably on test#5 with almost 400,000 errors. I slowed the memory bus from 133 to 100 and still got 80 errors. In comparison, my old generic stick of pc133 on a Soyo BA+III checks out 100% good on all tests, even up to 138 Mhz fsb.
I expected the Micron ram to be good, especially with all the high ratings I see about it. I was wrong. From now on the FIRST test I do before even attempting to let the OS boot is to run my Memtest boot floppy. First, test number 5 then let it cycle through all the tests a few times. I think this will drastically reduce the number of mysterious problems and BSOD's.
I expected the Micron ram to be good, especially with all the high ratings I see about it. I was wrong. From now on the FIRST test I do before even attempting to let the OS boot is to run my Memtest boot floppy. First, test number 5 then let it cycle through all the tests a few times. I think this will drastically reduce the number of mysterious problems and BSOD's.