Blue Screens O' Death

[Vitriov]

Thanks for those.

I've been running memtest86 now for 9 hours 40 minutes. It's made 50 passes. How many does it do in total?

Still no errors by the way.

 

[HardKore{Killa}]

thats allright see what google can do its great to finally help someone

 

[Vitriov]

"Memtest86 continues executes indefinitely. The pass counter increments each time that all of the selected tests have been run. Generally a single pass is sufficient to catch all but the most obscure errors. However, for complete confidence when intermittent errors are suspected testing for a longer period is advised."

Bugger... does that mean for the past 49 odd passes I've been wasting my time, and that this stick is in fact perfectly fine?

 

[HardKore{Killa}]

yeah i think so but i think it was good that u did the whole time which means u get a definent answer if u did in quick it could of turned out wrong and it could have said perfectly right when it was wrong if u get what i mean

 

[Vitriov]

Right well that definitely shows I have one flawed stick of RAM (that's currently sat in a static bag well away from anything I value), and one decent stick of RAM.

Since I was running that flawed stick since this computer was built it'll be interesting to see if computer crashes become a thing of the past now.

Well I can wish can't I?

 

[HardKore{Killa}]

Right well that definitely shows I have one flawed stick of RAM (that's currently sat in a static bag well away from anything I value), and one decent stick of RAM.

Since I was running that flawed stick since this computer was built it'll be interesting to see if computer crashes become a thing of the past now.

Well I can wish can't I?

yeah hopefully those crashes become a thing of the past no more Blue Screen' O Death

 

[Vitriov]

Well no crashes so far, it's going quite smoothly, albeit on half RAM.

I've gotten onto Aria about replacing the old stick.