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| 511100 | 2006-12-30 21:18:00 | Hi I am testing few ram sticks on my old deon proccessor. Its a 128 Mb sdram, memtest is been running for about 10 hrs 50 min doing 41 passes and 0 errors. I have had few bsod caused due to ram. Should i keep it running till find any?. |
gum digger (6100) | ||
| 511101 | 2006-12-30 23:18:00 | Id suggest not.. When I had memory errors they came up after a few seconds :) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 511102 | 2006-12-31 00:08:00 | No Chill, not always... I have seen a machine go for 5 hours Memtest stable... then slowely but surely the errors came... and increased... When I buy new RAM I like to test it for atleast 24 hours, if I OC my RAM more or change the settings I like to run it for at least 12 hours, I would say run it for 12 hours... |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 511103 | 2006-12-31 07:13:00 | SO far its been running for 21 hours. soon i will run prim95 to test mobo and cpu. Just a question. can we run downloads in the background while prime95 is doing its tests? |
gum digger (6100) | ||
| 511104 | 2006-12-31 08:07:00 | God, why bother? If you know the BSODs are RAm then just replace it. Or you could do something more exciting - like watching the grass grow. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 511105 | 2006-12-31 13:31:00 | Wel i ran memtest for 27 hours but no error. | gum digger (6100) | ||
| 511106 | 2006-12-31 14:39:00 | As I understand it, you are only testing old RAM that you have right? Well if so then I believe 27 hours is overkill, 12 hours is pleanty, and as you think the RAM is fauty... well seeing as Memtest has not thrown up any errors that would suggest that you look else where as the cause of the BSODs, Memtest stresses the RAM A_LOT_MORE than the average uses on a PC Are you sure that the BSOD doesn't identify a driver? |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 511107 | 2007-01-01 03:02:00 | Its not drivers. I ran Prime95 using the "Small FFT" tortuee test for 40 min and it froze. | gum digger (6100) | ||
| 511108 | 2007-01-03 02:20:00 | I quote from the Prime 95 description of the Small FFT test "Maximum FPU stress, data fits in L2 cache, Ram not tested much" from this and it passing Memtest 86 (which WILL find errors if it is the RAM running it for that long) for that amount of time leads me to believe that the RAM is NOT the cause, I would even start looking at the CPU as the cause | The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 511109 | 2007-01-03 06:26:00 | If Memtest hasn't reported any errors, that means it hasn't found any. ;) Did the errors occur on warmer days? With the wonderful summer we are enjoying, the memory might be at a temperature at which it is reliable. Try the hair dryer to warm the memory sticks (while running Memtest) and see if that provokes some errors |
Graham L (2) | ||
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