RAM woes

[macombaland]

Ok I was having a prob with my computer restarting randomly. I took out my OCZ ram, put it in my parents dell. The first time i fired up the dell it blue screened after about 5 minutes. After the next restart it ran nonstop for probably 15 hours until i shut it down. The dell hasnt randomly shut down again since that first time yesterday.

I put the dell memory in my comp. And it ran fine. No restarts or blue screens.

I ran memtest on the OCZ memory about 6 times, half the tests came back with errors and half came back clean.

I just want some peoples confirmation that this is most likely a ram problem before i RMA. Thanks

 

[Elbatrop1]

I would say that you have really narrowed it down to faulty RAM. Good work on the troubleshooting, that was quite thorough. At this point, I would RMA it.

 

[TheGr8schlotzky]

definitely can agree with that, RMA it

 

[macombaland]

the thing that worries me though is that the dell ran for so many hours without any problems.

 

[Elbatrop1]

Ya, but it still BSODed your Dell, so that has to say something. Plus the fact that your Dell RAM worked fine in your comp kinda says something.

 

[macombaland]

yea youre right. RMA AWAY!!!

 

[JoshSB]

get rid of the dell and custom it

 

[macombaland]

why would i get rid of my parents dell? maybe you should read all of the posts in this thread.

 

[macombaland]

ok this thread is coming back. I got my new ram today and im getting the exact same problem...blue screen. i dont understand because this thing didnt crash at all when i was usint 256mb of the cheapest most generic ram ever made.

im not 100% sure but i think it might have something to do with the dual channel ram. the 2 128mb sticks of cheapo stuff arent dual channel and they didnt crash it. ive tried 2 different sets of the stuff in my sig and it made this computer go to crap. It also seems to run better with only one stick of the OCZ at a time.

Does this dual channel theory make any sense? im desperate.

 

[macombaland]

i really need help!