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Okay, I'm at a loss here. I cannot understand how I'm able to do what I do with the results I get from running Memtest86+ v1.55.
I originally started with 512MB of RDRAM from Kingston and was sucessfully running at 1200 with a FSB of 150. When I purchased a second pair of Kingston I couldn't run it at anything past a FSB of 133. I sent them back to Kingston and got a new pair, but it was the same. The only thing I could tell that was different was that my original mem had black heat spreaders and was from Japan. The others were with silver HSs and from the US. I could not find any Kingston mem anywhere that had the black HSs and made in japan, so I gave up. These allowed the running of 1200 w/no errors in MT86. I got tired of only running 512, so I decided to try some Samsung memory. I got a pair of 256s on ebay and installed them.
I ran the new 1024MB without any testing as I figured XP would crap out like before if it didn't work. It worked like a charm and for the past 4 months I've been running with no restarts or mem errors. I've been doing video editing that has used up to 800+MB and all was well. I've been quite happy. That is, until, I ran Memtest86 earlier this evening. The results weren't good, but also leaves me wondering why.....
To start, I'm assuming that my first two modules (Kingston) should still be the first 512MB and the new modules should be the second 512MB. This being true, I would have expected any errors to be above 512MB in testing as the Kingstons had never failed in testing before. Also, I would expect that any failure in any point in the 1024MB would mean problems for me running XP and my apps.
So here's a short list of my errors running Memtest86+ v1.55.... Test 5 have me 6 errors in the 194 to 218.5MB range. Test 6 have me 4 errors in the 201.4MB range. On the second pass (that's where I stopped the test) on test 3 I got 4 errors in the 205MB range (for which I didn't on the first pass of this test).
Now if I'm getting memory errors like this, how can I be running XP and all my memory intensive apps (including dual instances of Prime95) with no problems at all? Wouldn't / shouldn't I be having all sorts of problems?
I'm at a loss.
Thanks
I originally started with 512MB of RDRAM from Kingston and was sucessfully running at 1200 with a FSB of 150. When I purchased a second pair of Kingston I couldn't run it at anything past a FSB of 133. I sent them back to Kingston and got a new pair, but it was the same. The only thing I could tell that was different was that my original mem had black heat spreaders and was from Japan. The others were with silver HSs and from the US. I could not find any Kingston mem anywhere that had the black HSs and made in japan, so I gave up. These allowed the running of 1200 w/no errors in MT86. I got tired of only running 512, so I decided to try some Samsung memory. I got a pair of 256s on ebay and installed them.
I ran the new 1024MB without any testing as I figured XP would crap out like before if it didn't work. It worked like a charm and for the past 4 months I've been running with no restarts or mem errors. I've been doing video editing that has used up to 800+MB and all was well. I've been quite happy. That is, until, I ran Memtest86 earlier this evening. The results weren't good, but also leaves me wondering why.....
To start, I'm assuming that my first two modules (Kingston) should still be the first 512MB and the new modules should be the second 512MB. This being true, I would have expected any errors to be above 512MB in testing as the Kingstons had never failed in testing before. Also, I would expect that any failure in any point in the 1024MB would mean problems for me running XP and my apps.
So here's a short list of my errors running Memtest86+ v1.55.... Test 5 have me 6 errors in the 194 to 218.5MB range. Test 6 have me 4 errors in the 201.4MB range. On the second pass (that's where I stopped the test) on test 3 I got 4 errors in the 205MB range (for which I didn't on the first pass of this test).
Now if I'm getting memory errors like this, how can I be running XP and all my memory intensive apps (including dual instances of Prime95) with no problems at all? Wouldn't / shouldn't I be having all sorts of problems?
I'm at a loss.
Thanks