Update. After changing memory locations, slot 0 to slot1 and vise
visa, wifes' reboot issue in WOW has not happened.












On Apr 13, 9:50 am, bill wrote:

> I'll try to make this short, but need to give all the details,
> so......
>
> i have basically a gaming system for my wife. Built it for xmas and
> because i went high end with video card, i only got 2 gigs RAM. For
> these few months, system has been ROCK SOLID, never a crash, fast as
> fast......everything great.
>
> Found RAM, same type i have in, had rebate going so i picked up
> another 2 gigs.Shortly after install, system would kick out of WOW and
> back to desktop, giving memory error. You could always relaunch
> without reboot and launch WOW again till it happened again. Pulled
> new 2 gigs and system went back to flawless operations.
>
> Downloaded free memory tester (http://www.memtest86.com/) and did some
> testing. I decided to do a baseline test using only known good 2 gigs
> ram. Test fails hard and locks up system.Move 64k block test. And this
> was with first 2 gigs ram that works without errors.Swapped ram with
> new, was able to quickly isolate one defective chip, other seems good.
> NOW back to old ram that works flawless, installing both sticks, tests
> fails as stated above.BUT, if i take system down to 1, 1 gig stick and
> test one at a time, both sticks pass, without a problem, multiple
> tests. IF i move one of these sticks to memory slot 1 instead of zero,
> they still test fine. Only when both sticks are in does memory test
> fail.
>
> ANd now as i writing, wife informs me my flawless system just rebooted
> on it own, FIRST failure every. This is 1st ram, so i just swapped
> slots, but not ram. Moved ram in slot 0 to slot 1 and vise visa. SEEMS
> to be doing okay.
>
> someone got some idea's??

On Apr 13, 10:55 am, bill wrote:
> Update. After changing memory locations, slot 0 to slot1 and vise
> visa, wifes' reboot issue in WOW has not happened.
>
> On Apr 13, 9:50 am, bill wrote:
>
> > I'll try to make this short, but need to give all the details,
> > so......
>
> > i have basically a gaming system for my wife. Built it for xmas and
> > because i went high end with video card, i only got 2 gigs RAM. For
> > these few months, system has been ROCK SOLID, never a crash, fast as
> > fast......everything great.
>
> > Found RAM, same type i have in, had rebate going so i picked up
> > another 2 gigs.Shortly after install, system would kick out of WOW and
> > back to desktop, giving memory error. You could always relaunch
> > without reboot and launch WOW again till it happened again. Pulled
> > new 2 gigs and system went back to flawless operations.
>
> > Downloaded free memory tester (http://www.memtest86.com/) and did some
> > testing. I decided to do a baseline test using only known good 2 gigs
> > ram. Test fails hard and locks up system.Move 64k block test. And this
> > was with first 2 gigs ram that works without errors.Swapped ram with
> > new, was able to quickly isolate one defective chip, other seems good.
> > NOW back to old ram that works flawless, installing both sticks, tests
> > fails as stated above.BUT, if i take system down to 1, 1 gig stick and
> > test one at a time, both sticks pass, without a problem, multiple
> > tests. IF i move one of these sticks to memory slot 1 instead of zero,
> > they still test fine. Only when both sticks are in does memory test
> > fail.
>
> > ANd now as i writing, wife informs me my flawless system just rebooted
> > on it own, FIRST failure every. This is 1st ram, so i just swapped
> > slots, but not ram. Moved ram in slot 0 to slot 1 and vise visa. SEEMS
> > to be doing okay.
>
> > someone got some idea's??

SORRY REPOSTED TO CORRECT GROUP

I have found the latest version of MEMTEST-86, Version 3.4, to be problematic,
showing numerous memory failures. I've reverted back to MEMTEST-86 Version 3.3
for all memory testing I do... Ben Myers

On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 07:55:18 -0700 (PDT), bill wrote:

>Update. After changing memory locations, slot 0 to slot1 and vise
>visa, wifes' reboot issue in WOW has not happened.
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>On Apr 13, 9:50 am, bill wrote:
>
>> I'll try to make this short, but need to give all the details,
>> so......
>>
>> i have basically a gaming system for my wife. Built it for xmas and
>> because i went high end with video card, i only got 2 gigs RAM. For
>> these few months, system has been ROCK SOLID, never a crash, fast as
>> fast......everything great.
>>
>> Found RAM, same type i have in, had rebate going so i picked up
>> another 2 gigs.Shortly after install, system would kick out of WOW and
>> back to desktop, giving memory error. You could always relaunch
>> without reboot and launch WOW again till it happened again. Pulled
>> new 2 gigs and system went back to flawless operations.
>>
>> Downloaded free memory tester (http://www.memtest86.com/) and did some
>> testing. I decided to do a baseline test using only known good 2 gigs
>> ram. Test fails hard and locks up system.Move 64k block test. And this
>> was with first 2 gigs ram that works without errors.Swapped ram with
>> new, was able to quickly isolate one defective chip, other seems good.
>> NOW back to old ram that works flawless, installing both sticks, tests
>> fails as stated above.BUT, if i take system down to 1, 1 gig stick and
>> test one at a time, both sticks pass, without a problem, multiple
>> tests. IF i move one of these sticks to memory slot 1 instead of zero,
>> they still test fine. Only when both sticks are in does memory test
>> fail.
>>
>> ANd now as i writing, wife informs me my flawless system just rebooted
>> on it own, FIRST failure every. This is 1st ram, so i just swapped
>> slots, but not ram. Moved ram in slot 0 to slot 1 and vise visa. SEEMS
>> to be doing okay.
>>
>> someone got some idea's??
>
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On Apr 13, 7:21*pm, Ben Myers
wrote:
> I have found the latest version of MEMTEST-86, Version 3.4, to be problematic,
> showing numerous memory failures. * I've reverted back to MEMTEST-86 Version 3.3
> for all memory testing I do... Ben Myers
>
>
>
> On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 07:55:18 -0700 (PDT), bill wrote:
> >Update. After changing memory locations, slot 0 to slot1 and vise
> >visa, wifes' reboot issue in WOW has not happened.
>
> >On Apr 13, 9:50 am, bill wrote:
>
> >> I'll try to make this short, but need to give all the details,
> >> so......
>
> >> i have basically a gaming system for my wife. Built it for xmas and
> >> because i went high end with video card, i only got 2 gigs RAM. For
> >> these few months, system has been ROCK SOLID, never a crash, fast as
> >> fast......everything great.
>
> >> Found RAM, same type i have in, had rebate going so i picked up
> >> another 2 gigs.Shortly after install, system would kick out of WOW and
> >> back to desktop, giving memory error. You could always relaunch
> >> without reboot and launch WOW *again till it happened again. Pulled
> >> new 2 gigs and system went back to flawless operations.
>
> >> Downloaded free memory tester (http://www.memtest86.com/) and did some
> >> testing. I decided to do a baseline test using only known good 2 gigs
> >> ram. Test fails hard and locks up system.Move 64k block test. And this
> >> was with first 2 gigs ram that works without errors.Swapped ram with
> >> new, was able to quickly isolate one defective chip, other seems good.
> >> NOW back to old ram that works flawless, installing both sticks, tests
> >> fails as stated above.BUT, if i take system down to 1, 1 gig stick and
> >> test one at a time, both sticks pass, without a problem, multiple
> >> tests. IF i move one of these sticks to memory slot 1 instead of zero,
> >> they still test fine. Only when both sticks are in does memory test
> >> fail.
>
> >> ANd now as i writing, wife informs me my flawless system just rebooted
> >> on it own, FIRST failure every. This is 1st ram, so i just swapped
> >> slots, but not ram. Moved ram in slot 0 to slot 1 and vise visa. SEEMS
> >> to be doing okay.
>
> >> someone got some idea's??- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Good to know, thanks, i was going the 3.4 version

FYI: If you are running 32-bit Windows operating system, the max memory it
likely will recognize is 3.3-3.5 GB. You need a 64-bit version of Windows to
recognize up to 8 GB of RAM.
HH


"bill" wrote in message
news:2ad3146a-e0de-48f1-87b6-8715915209e0@8g2000hsu.googlegroups.com...
On Apr 13, 7:21 pm, Ben Myers
wrote:
> I have found the latest version of MEMTEST-86, Version 3.4, to be
> problematic,
> showing numerous memory failures. I've reverted back to MEMTEST-86 Version
> 3.3
> for all memory testing I do... Ben Myers
>
>
>
> On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 07:55:18 -0700 (PDT), bill
> wrote:
> >Update. After changing memory locations, slot 0 to slot1 and vise
> >visa, wifes' reboot issue in WOW has not happened.
>
> >On Apr 13, 9:50 am, bill wrote:
>
> >> I'll try to make this short, but need to give all the details,
> >> so......
>
> >> i have basically a gaming system for my wife. Built it for xmas and
> >> because i went high end with video card, i only got 2 gigs RAM. For
> >> these few months, system has been ROCK SOLID, never a crash, fast as
> >> fast......everything great.
>
> >> Found RAM, same type i have in, had rebate going so i picked up
> >> another 2 gigs.Shortly after install, system would kick out of WOW and
> >> back to desktop, giving memory error. You could always relaunch
> >> without reboot and launch WOW again till it happened again. Pulled
> >> new 2 gigs and system went back to flawless operations.
>
> >> Downloaded free memory tester (http://www.memtest86.com/) and did some
> >> testing. I decided to do a baseline test using only known good 2 gigs
> >> ram. Test fails hard and locks up system.Move 64k block test. And this
> >> was with first 2 gigs ram that works without errors.Swapped ram with
> >> new, was able to quickly isolate one defective chip, other seems good.
> >> NOW back to old ram that works flawless, installing both sticks, tests
> >> fails as stated above.BUT, if i take system down to 1, 1 gig stick and
> >> test one at a time, both sticks pass, without a problem, multiple
> >> tests. IF i move one of these sticks to memory slot 1 instead of zero,
> >> they still test fine. Only when both sticks are in does memory test
> >> fail.
>
> >> ANd now as i writing, wife informs me my flawless system just rebooted
> >> on it own, FIRST failure every. This is 1st ram, so i just swapped
> >> slots, but not ram. Moved ram in slot 0 to slot 1 and vise visa. SEEMS
> >> to be doing okay.
>
> >> someone got some idea's??- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Good to know, thanks, i was going the 3.4 version

I had this happen to me with a Giga-byte board.
One of the RAM slots failed. I RMA'd the board & it's worked flawlessly
since.

To isolate this, try 1 stick. Then try next stick in the same slot. Repeat
until all 4 sticks have been in the first slot.
If the RAM is good, all sticks will report as such with Memtest86.

Then go to the next slot & keep repeating until all sticks are tested in all
slots.

With fingers crossed you should see a pattern.



"bill" wrote in message
news:2de662ac-dc5b-4464-9bdd-0025018831c5@24g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
> Update. After changing memory locations, slot 0 to slot1 and vise
> visa, wifes' reboot issue in WOW has not happened.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Apr 13, 9:50 am, bill wrote:
>
>> I'll try to make this short, but need to give all the details,
>> so......
>>
>> i have basically a gaming system for my wife. Built it for xmas and
>> because i went high end with video card, i only got 2 gigs RAM. For
>> these few months, system has been ROCK SOLID, never a crash, fast as
>> fast......everything great.
>>
>> Found RAM, same type i have in, had rebate going so i picked up
>> another 2 gigs.Shortly after install, system would kick out of WOW and
>> back to desktop, giving memory error. You could always relaunch
>> without reboot and launch WOW again till it happened again. Pulled
>> new 2 gigs and system went back to flawless operations.
>>
>> Downloaded free memory tester (http://www.memtest86.com/) and did some
>> testing. I decided to do a baseline test using only known good 2 gigs
>> ram. Test fails hard and locks up system.Move 64k block test. And this
>> was with first 2 gigs ram that works without errors.Swapped ram with
>> new, was able to quickly isolate one defective chip, other seems good.
>> NOW back to old ram that works flawless, installing both sticks, tests
>> fails as stated above.BUT, if i take system down to 1, 1 gig stick and
>> test one at a time, both sticks pass, without a problem, multiple
>> tests. IF i move one of these sticks to memory slot 1 instead of zero,
>> they still test fine. Only when both sticks are in does memory test
>> fail.
>>
>> ANd now as i writing, wife informs me my flawless system just rebooted
>> on it own, FIRST failure every. This is 1st ram, so i just swapped
>> slots, but not ram. Moved ram in slot 0 to slot 1 and vise visa. SEEMS
>> to be doing okay.
>>
>> someone got some idea's??
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