anotherwindowsuser
Well-Known Member
Hi,
So I ordered new ram (second hand ram) one of the sticks failed on using memtest86 and the other worked, I asked the seller for patial refund he said not to use memtest as it damages ram and said to use the windows one. Anyway, upon trying to reboot and putting the bad ram in to check with windows (as I was exxpecting windows to throw the same error tbh) it went past the stage at wich it failed before. I then decided to test both sticks at once with bad stick in slot 0 and good one in slot 1 and then it through the error. It seems upon further testing it may or may not throw an error with the one stick but will throw an error if both sticks are in use. I moved good stick from slot 1 to slot 3 and the bad stick threw an error again whilstin slot 0. Is this a mother board issue? I had some errors some months ago and I discovered that by shuffling the ram around I got passed all of them.
So I ordered new ram (second hand ram) one of the sticks failed on using memtest86 and the other worked, I asked the seller for patial refund he said not to use memtest as it damages ram and said to use the windows one. Anyway, upon trying to reboot and putting the bad ram in to check with windows (as I was exxpecting windows to throw the same error tbh) it went past the stage at wich it failed before. I then decided to test both sticks at once with bad stick in slot 0 and good one in slot 1 and then it through the error. It seems upon further testing it may or may not throw an error with the one stick but will throw an error if both sticks are in use. I moved good stick from slot 1 to slot 3 and the bad stick threw an error again whilstin slot 0. Is this a mother board issue? I had some errors some months ago and I discovered that by shuffling the ram around I got passed all of them.