SOLVED Bad ram sticks?

[bobkoonce]

I have recently bought components for a new build,

Mobo: GA 970A-D3
CPU: AMD FX 4017
RAM: Corsair Vengence 32 Gig Kit (CMZ32GX3M4X1866C10)
PSU: Raidmax RX-850AE
Graphics Card: GeForce GTX 550TI

I have ran Prime95, Sandra, and MemTest86+ among others with the same results (LOTS of PROBLEMS), I replaced the CPU with the same type, and the Mobo with a MSI 970A-G46,, and was comming up with more problems, so I ran MemTest86+ on the ram again placing each stick in DIMM Socket 1 and running the tests on one stick at a time, here are the results.

Ram Stick 1
Test 6 Errors 4
Test 8 Errors 163
Test 9 Errors at 90000 and climbing, I escaped the Memtest program.

Ram Stick 2
Test 8 Errors 62
Test 10 Errors 3

Ram Stick 3
Test 8 Errors 150
Test 10 Errors 10

Ram Stick 4
Test 8 Errors 249
Test 10 Errors 23

Can all the ram sticks in the 32GB kit be bad?
The only components I have not replaced are the Ram, PSU and Video Card.

I don't now where to go from here, any ideas?

Thanks,
Bob Koonce

 

[kyfire]

Did you flash the BIO on both mobos to the lastest?

 

[bobkoonce]

Did a BIOS update and ran MemTest86+ again and came up with,

Ram stick 4
Test 8 Errors 283
Test 10 Errors 45

The update to BIOS didn't seem to help.

P.S. from what the test showed on Stick 1, do you thinks its fried?

 

[wingman99]

What do you have the timings and voltage set to.

 

[larrymoencurly]

Can all the ram sticks in the 32GB kit be bad?

At JEDEC settings? I'd be really, really surprised, although one friend went through 5 pairs of Corsairs before getting a pair with 0 errors. OTOH I could believe all 4 modules failing at XMP settings because those RAM chips are overclocked at 1866 MHz.

 

[bobkoonce]

Well I think I'm going to buy some more ram and try them out on this build to see if they are the culprits, any suggestions?

 

[Bobnova]

Make sure your RAM settings are correct, timings and voltage and all that.
Settings that aren't quite right can cause errors without completely crashing everything.

 

[bobkoonce]

Went out and bought (8 GB 2x4 Kit) of Corsair Vengeance ram, ran Memtest86+ thru 3 Passes, total Time 2:05:38, Errors 0, it was the ram.

Thanks for all your inputs and your time.

Sincerely,
bobkoonce