Memory problems

KillerWatt

It conducts the tests you tell it to, and if it encounters no errors then you will see when it gets to the end.
The timer simply tells you how long the application has been running, not the actual time it took to test the memory.
As soon as Memtest found that error (which looks like it was quite early on) the testing procedure was halted, so you probably wasted 17 of those 18 hours watching the timer.

spannerzone

When I last used memtest it would repeat the tests and repeat the error found, I've never had it halt on error but there may be an option for it to do that?

I'm sure when I used it and it listed an error, the address it gave could be used to determine which stick it was looking at the address ranges of all the sticks in use.... I haven't used it for a year or two so might be mistaken but I am sure i used it and it pointed to the exact stick at fault, going by the address.

or did I dream it all?

debitcardmayhem

The piccy looks like the3rd stick , but of course I don't know which stick is first on your mobo. Someone will probably correct but it is looking like testing 4096-6144 and it seems like 1787.1 Mb inbto it.... just a guess though.

SandLake

I have had 3 BSOD's on my PC in work today, one of them showed the PFN_LIST_CORRUPT problem

I to ran Memtest and was left confused, I know there is a problem but I tried with various configurations of the 4 1Gb memory sticks in place and couldn't systematically determine what was or wasn't causing the problem, I thought it was a particular 2 memory sticks in combination, I scavenged 2 from another PC, ran memtest and while I didn't complete a full test (there are not enough hours in a day!) it seemed OK, so I just ran with that - I only had one BSOD for the rest of the day.

I think I might have a motherboard problem!

Hammyman

halibut2209 wrote: »

So I'm running MemTest86 and have so far got the following screen. Can anyone translate it?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v646/halibut/DSCF1297.jpg

One of the sticks of RAM is dicked and needs replacing. Remove all the RAM, insert each stick on its own one at a time and repeat the tests to find the faulty one.

If you find no faults, this is perfectly possible. There is a condition called thermal creep where things like sticks of RAM will get a dodgy connection due to the constant heating and cooling moving things about. Also depending on how old it is, if the contacts on the DIMMS are a different metal to the connections in the socket, corrosion can occur. Cleaning them both with a fibreglass pencil sorts it.