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    How to tell if your memory is going bad?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Tippey764, Nov 4, 2008.

  1. Tippey764

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    Ok i have a compaq v5000 here thats a freinds that i just did an upgrade and reformatted. Anyways the computer gets the blue screen of death when i use both 1gb sticks of ram in it. If i remove them and put a single 2gb stick of ram this problem dosent happen. My question is how can i figure out which stick is bad. Also is the windows memory test any good i did it and it came back with no problems but then again i did the quick test.Thanks for helping me

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    Run memtest86+?
     
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    Where can i get that program from?
     
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    Do what I♥RAM said but the fact both test fine and individually function fine? Well indicates it might be a MoBo problem? Just thoughts?
     
    powerpack, Nov 4, 2008
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    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    This is where you can get the program from:
    http://www.memtest.org/#downiso
    Make sure to run the program for a few hours, or maybe overnight, so that the software can check all of the memory cells.

    K-TRON
     
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    Ok i got memtest86 and ran it on the laptop. Although it hasent been going for very long it says " Errors 10240 " and at the bottom ever thing is in red and all tests come back 0 under the pass section. Is this mean the memorys bad?
     
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    If you can test each stick individually. If one runs without errors, while the other has errors, then the one with errors is the bad stick.
     
    sgogeta4, Nov 4, 2008
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