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488454 2006-10-01 19:46:00 I have run Memtest-86 on a computer. The installed ram tested bad. I put in some other ram that I knew was good, it also tested bad.
I took the ram out & put it in another computer, ran Memtest-86 again without any errors.
Does this mean the original motherboard is malfunctioning?
NZHawk (4093)
488455 2006-10-01 21:02:00 Could be the cache memory in the CPU.
Go into the BIOS and disable the CPU cache and run memtest again.
If it passes you need a new CPU.
Don't see this very often but I did have one the other day in a notebook.
Or it could be a faulty RAM socket. Try testing the RAM in another socket.
CYaBro (73)
488456 2006-10-01 21:09:00 I have already tried the ram in different sockets and they failed.
I will try the bios adjustment & retest.
Let you know.


Thank you
NZHawk (4093)
488457 2006-10-01 21:21:00 different motherboards run different timings. your motherboard could be trying to run it to fast.

also what cpu's where the 2 mobo's running?

generally incompatibilities show up straight away, failures are a different story however.
tweak'e (69)
488458 2006-10-01 21:36:00 the computer I am testing is a HP710a, ASUS A7V-ML motherboard.
The customer brought it in because the games were freezing the computer. Simple/light games: SpongeBob & FreddiFish...
I tested the CPU with HotCPU Lite - the tests were OK.
I then went to test the ram & got failures.
NZHawk (4093)
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