- Joined
- May 18, 2012
- Location
- Dallas. TX
Some background.
Awhile ago, I received a few upgrades to my Dell computer at work: Windows 7, new SSD(120GB Agility 3), and new memory(4x2GB Kingston kvr800d2n6/2g).
A fellow colleague also received the exact same upgrades with presumably the same computer. His machine works just fine. After the upgrades were completed, it seemed like I would get BSODs daily.
I finally became too fed up with it and decided to start doing some testing.
With all 4 sticks in, I decided to run MEMtest from within the OS overnight. When I came back I had received an error saying something to the effect of, "Your memory does not store information accurately."
So I thought I had found the problem and proceeded to test the sticks individually. Over an entire weekend, I tested every stick 12+ hours to no avail (using MEMtest in the OS).
Currently I am in the process of testing the sticks individually overnight (from the bootable version) with the first 2 sticks returning zero errors.
Does the bootable MEMtest yield better results since it can test the memory that is allocated by Windows? I don't believe it is a DIMM slot due to the fact that this computer previously ran 4x1GB sticks. This is frustrating!
Awhile ago, I received a few upgrades to my Dell computer at work: Windows 7, new SSD(120GB Agility 3), and new memory(4x2GB Kingston kvr800d2n6/2g).
A fellow colleague also received the exact same upgrades with presumably the same computer. His machine works just fine. After the upgrades were completed, it seemed like I would get BSODs daily.
I finally became too fed up with it and decided to start doing some testing.
With all 4 sticks in, I decided to run MEMtest from within the OS overnight. When I came back I had received an error saying something to the effect of, "Your memory does not store information accurately."
So I thought I had found the problem and proceeded to test the sticks individually. Over an entire weekend, I tested every stick 12+ hours to no avail (using MEMtest in the OS).
Currently I am in the process of testing the sticks individually overnight (from the bootable version) with the first 2 sticks returning zero errors.
Does the bootable MEMtest yield better results since it can test the memory that is allocated by Windows? I don't believe it is a DIMM slot due to the fact that this computer previously ran 4x1GB sticks. This is frustrating!
