5punk

My machine decided to turn itself off last night and wouldn't boot up or POST. First thing to check as ofc is the RAM, so took both sticks out and it POSTs fine. Put both sticks back in and it's still fine. Could it be they just needed reseating?

And where's that linky to memtest gone

The memory was probably just having a bit of a spack.

http://www.memtest.org/

'kin hell Berk you wonderful cupcake. You did that quicker than I could google.

friznit wrote:'kin hell Berk you wonderful berk. You did that quicker than I could google.

it takes you 2 minutes to google memtest and click the first link?

I er...well actually you don't really want to know.

OK, so memtest has picked up a couple of bad addresses. Now what? Is the RAM a write off or can I isolate those bad bits and carry on with the rest? How do I know which stick is the bad one (or do I have to run memtest on each one individually?) Does it matter? And where do babies come from?

Yup, run memtest on each stick seperately.

It's quite possible it'll kick up no errors on either when you do that.

It only matters properly if windows tries to use that memory, at which point everything will go blue.

Babies come from asda.

friznit wrote:OK, so memtest has picked up a couple of bad addresses. Now what? Is the RAM a write off or can I isolate those bad bits and carry on with the rest? How do I know which stick is the bad one (or do I have to run memtest on each one individually?) Does it matter?

What Berk said. Also, I assume you aren't overclocked?

friznit wrote:And where do babies come from?

If you let it get that far, you're doing it wrong. Use a bottle of gin and a coat-hanger to fix the problem before it gets out of hand.

No I tend to avoid overclocking. Stability > speed imo