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I "upgraded" to Windows 7 64 bit in the beginning of December. Everything was rolling along smoothly until 1 week ago, started getting BSOD's & spontaneous reboot. I did not install any new hardware or software, this just started happening out of the blue.
System Specs:
Asus M3A78-T MB
AMD Phenom II X4 940
Corsair Dominator 4 GB (2x2GB) 240 pin DDR2 SDRAM 1066 (PC2 8500)
Corsair 750W Power Supply
SAPPHIRE 100259-1GL Radeon HD 4870 1GB 256-bit GDDR5
WD 6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM
Creative SB X-FI Xtreme Music
I dont have anything over clocked, my memory is set to manufacturers specs..5-5-5-15-2T 1066.
On one of the crashes, Windows 7 said I had problems with my memory & suggested to run the memory tester in Win 7. I did that & it said I had errors. So I tried to narrow it down to which stick was bad & removed one & ran the test again...no errors..must be the other stick. Installed the other stick & ran test again no errors. So I put both back in & ran it once again & no errors.
System was still occasionally BSOD'ing so I decided to test my memory with a more reputable source Memtest 86 v 4.00.
I burned the ISO to a CD Rebooted my PC with both sticks in & at the 3 minute mark of the test I got errors, I let it run for about 20 minutes & it kept finding errors with each new test. When I stopped it I had accumulated over 2000 errors.
So again, I tried to narrow it down to which stick was bad. Ran it over night with one stick, woke up 7 hours later 0 errors. Changed sticks went to work came home to 0 errors. Put both sticks in again & ran for 3 hours...0 errors.
The only thing that changed is the memory is in the opposite slots they were when I initially ran memtest. However they are back to their original slots as they were when I was running WinXP (they got switched when I tested the memory using the Win7 tool).
Another thing I noticed is that in Memtest it says my memory is running at 8-5-5-15. In the BIOS & on CPUID it says its at 5-5-5-15. Also it says that ECC is disabled when it is enabled in the BIOS.
Any ideas what could be causing the inconsistency in the test results? Intermittent faulty Dimm Slots?
I know my way around a PC but am no genius any help would be appreciated.
TIA
System Specs:
Asus M3A78-T MB
AMD Phenom II X4 940
Corsair Dominator 4 GB (2x2GB) 240 pin DDR2 SDRAM 1066 (PC2 8500)
Corsair 750W Power Supply
SAPPHIRE 100259-1GL Radeon HD 4870 1GB 256-bit GDDR5
WD 6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM
Creative SB X-FI Xtreme Music
I dont have anything over clocked, my memory is set to manufacturers specs..5-5-5-15-2T 1066.
On one of the crashes, Windows 7 said I had problems with my memory & suggested to run the memory tester in Win 7. I did that & it said I had errors. So I tried to narrow it down to which stick was bad & removed one & ran the test again...no errors..must be the other stick. Installed the other stick & ran test again no errors. So I put both back in & ran it once again & no errors.
System was still occasionally BSOD'ing so I decided to test my memory with a more reputable source Memtest 86 v 4.00.
I burned the ISO to a CD Rebooted my PC with both sticks in & at the 3 minute mark of the test I got errors, I let it run for about 20 minutes & it kept finding errors with each new test. When I stopped it I had accumulated over 2000 errors.
So again, I tried to narrow it down to which stick was bad. Ran it over night with one stick, woke up 7 hours later 0 errors. Changed sticks went to work came home to 0 errors. Put both sticks in again & ran for 3 hours...0 errors.
The only thing that changed is the memory is in the opposite slots they were when I initially ran memtest. However they are back to their original slots as they were when I was running WinXP (they got switched when I tested the memory using the Win7 tool).
Another thing I noticed is that in Memtest it says my memory is running at 8-5-5-15. In the BIOS & on CPUID it says its at 5-5-5-15. Also it says that ECC is disabled when it is enabled in the BIOS.
Any ideas what could be causing the inconsistency in the test results? Intermittent faulty Dimm Slots?
I know my way around a PC but am no genius any help would be appreciated.
TIA