memtest86 on Asus CUBX with 448M RAM

[Michael Hipp]

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: HarryG <hg57 at sc.rr.com>
> On Thursday 18 May 2006 00:44, Man-wai CHANG wrote:
> > I got only 2 errors (near 168M) in Test 5. Should I just ignore them?
> 
> No. If you have 2 sticks of memory, pull run then re-run the test.  Then swap
> and run once more.  It will show which stick it is IF it is the memory itself
> that is bad.

Harry's advice is spot on.

Regarding your original question... I've occasionally had a suspect box on which I ran memtest for 3 solid days before the problem showed itself. But one error in 3 days was enough to cause major instability in the box. (Funny, Windows seems more susceptible than Linux.)

If the problem goes away with a certain memory stick, problem solved, replace it. If the problem persists no matter what memory sticks are in the box, you probably have a memory channel gone bad on the mobo - time for a new mobo.  Swapping between DIMM slots can sometimes isolate the bad slot/channel and allot the mobo to continue to work. I've found bad memory channels/slots are fairly common.

Michael

Michael