Memory Problem

steviec

I got a new computer the other day(A64 3500 / 1Gig DDR400 / MSI K8N neo2)

Problem is running games on it I get crashes very often, every hour or more. Sometimes the program crashes with a memory access violation, sometimes I get the BSOD, sometimes the PC just suddenly reboots itself.

So I got the Microsoft memory diagnostic from http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp which made a bootable CD to test my RAM. Over the course of leaving it running for about 2 hours, I got three errors. All were in the 'STRIDE6' test and all of them were memory locations that should have contained ffffffff but contained something else(just one of the last digits differing from f). It was a different memory location for each error.

So, is there anything in my BIOS that might help fix this or is it just a hardware failure? The PC's not overclocked or anything, think its all set to default. And if its a hardware fault is there a way to identify which stick(2X512 in the PC) short of taking one stick out and rerunning the tests?

aaf

Retest one stick at a time using memtest. You need a floppy disk or cd.

stevenmu

Check out the MSI Forums, under the nVidia based section there's a sticky index, there's lists of compatible and non-compatible memory for the boards. If they say it's compatible and memtest is giving serious errors then it's faulty memory and you should be able to RMA it.