ram problems

poisonfish · 01-24-2006, 05:23 AM

ok my friend has 2 sticks of hynix ram and 1 stick kingston ,all are 512 cl3 ddr 400 he started getting problems when he just had the hynix ram installed <ALOT>games crashinh to desktop and other random error like xp not starting drive not reading dvds ect ect but after he installed the kingston ram thing still wasnt right but he had less crashes ...??

anyway he is starting to get more errors now agin and i wounderd wether this is 1 of the ram sticks slowly dieing i have run microsoft men diagnostic and it gives errors only after it has crashed <not before ??#>
i have tried the ram in different slots and some some combinations wont boot some will .
he has also found that it normaly ok when playing less demanding games but when he fires up bf2 hes get around 10 mins or so??then desk top he has orderd anthother gig of kingston to see if this sorts things out

So my question is ,would you think this is a ram problem and that the computer only crashes when it uses all the 3 ram modules <i was thinking the last ram stick was faulty and only afected the computer when it was used eg under load > ??

it shouldnt be ps its 650w?

crazijoe · 01-24-2006, 05:34 AM

Download Memtest86 and run a test on each stick of memory individually. Run the test for about 4 hours on each stick.

http://www.memtest86.com/

01-24-2006, 05:23 AM	#1 (permalink)
poisonfish Registered User Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 32 OS: xp	ram problems ok my friend has 2 sticks of hynix ram and 1 stick kingston ,all are 512 cl3 ddr 400 he started getting problems when he just had the hynix ram installed <ALOT>games crashinh to desktop and other random error like xp not starting drive not reading dvds ect ect but after he installed the kingston ram thing still wasnt right but he had less crashes ...?? anyway he is starting to get more errors now agin and i wounderd wether this is 1 of the ram sticks slowly dieing i have run microsoft men diagnostic and it gives errors only after it has crashed <not before ??#> i have tried the ram in different slots and some some combinations wont boot some will . he has also found that it normaly ok when playing less demanding games but when he fires up bf2 hes get around 10 mins or so??then desk top he has orderd anthother gig of kingston to see if this sorts things out So my question is ,would you think this is a ram problem and that the computer only crashes when it uses all the 3 ram modules <i was thinking the last ram stick was faulty and only afected the computer when it was used eg under load > ?? it shouldnt be ps its 650w?

01-24-2006, 05:34 AM	#2 (permalink)
crazijoe Registered User Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Omaha, The Center of the Universe Posts: 7,632 OS: WinXP, Win2K3 My System	Download Memtest86 and run a test on each stick of memory individually. Run the test for about 4 hours on each stick. http://www.memtest86.com/ __________________ Microsoft MCSA + Messaging, MVP, A+, Network+ http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b3...other/Help.jpg Do you want a real Republican? HDD diagnostic tools / HDD data recovery software