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There have been numerous reports of errors in only tests 5 and 8 on Athlon systems. Often the memory works in a different system or the vendor insists that it is good. In these cases the memory is not necessarily bad but is not able to operate reliably at Athlon speeds. Sometimes more conservative memory timings on the motherboard will correct these errors. In other cases the only option is to replace the memory with better quality, higher speed memory. Don't buy cheap memory and expect it to work with an Athlon! On occasion test 5/8 errors will occur even with name brand memory and a quality motherboard. These errors are legitimate and should be corrected.
Memtest86 has no support for multiple processors. Memtest86 will execute without problems, but it will only use one CPU.
Memtest86 supports all types of memory. If fact the test has no knowledge of the memory type nor does it need to. Memtest86 is able to test all types and brands of memory. This not a problem or bug but is listed here due to the many questions about this issue.
PerlAddict said:Probably ought to be using the new Memtest86+, based off the old version of Memtest86. I think the current version is 1.55.
Avg said:Tried the v3.2 of memtest86 and got errors on test 5, and the pc crashed while I was on excel so I guess it's back to newegg or g.skill.
glock19owner said:Also...dont RMA your skills right away...it usally takes about a week or so for skills to settle in...
Took about a week to get my old LC's running at 8-4-4-2.5/275...then another week or so later they were running 5-3-4-2.5/275/2.85v 100% stable...