bad RAM sticks? i think so....

[pejsaboy]

well, i just got the RMA replacement for my fortron blue storm 500, woohoo! that's the good news. the bad news:i thought the generic psu was my problem, but i think my RAM may have been causing the intability all along. i've run 1 pass of all tests on memtest so far [v1.65] and returned 120 errors. here's the breakdown:
test 3- 13 errors
test 4- 60 errors
test 5- 46 errors
test 6- 1 error
i can list the addresses [in terms of MB] if that will help, but i'm thinking it's pretty clear that my RAM is bad, correct? is it possible that the errors could be corrected with a little bump in voltage? right now they're sitting at the stock/default which IIRC is 2.7v

 

[broken_Naols]

If it is producing these kind of errors at the stock settings, it has got to be bad RAM.

Have you tried memtest on one stick at a time, to see if it is one of them causing the problems?

 

[pejsaboy]

not so far i haven't. i'll give that a shot and see what i can come up with. what's a general idea of how many errors you could expect to have and still have RAM that isn't deserving of a trip to the dump?

 

[pejsaboy]

whoops, forgot about this thread....
after testing the sticks separately [and in different DIMMs] 1 stick is far worse than the other, however i still get a total of 4 errors in test 6 with the 'better' stick. 3 occurences are at the same address. i tried running the computer with just the one stick [the one with less errors], but it still freezes windows. is 4 errors enough to consider the RAM faulty?