I was hoping someone could recommend some tests or methods to help me determine if the cause is the memory or the motherboard.
The machine will be fine for a few days, then I'll come home to it and find a black screen. The wireless keyboard does not wake it up (the LED on the USB fob does not flash as it normally does for keypresses and trackball movement) and I usually end up hard rebooting. Upon reboot, I go directly to memtest and the memory will fail. It usually passes all of test 1 and starts failing wildly in test 2 at which point I turn the power off, reseat the memory, reboot, go back to memtest to check it (all tests pass) and things will be fine again for a few days. Sometimes I have to reseat and/or trade the 2 modules multiple times before I get them to pass.
Because of the fact that the memory will pass memtest after reseating makes me feel that the issue must be with the motherboard along with the fact that I trust Corsair more than Jetway but how can I know for sure and how do I prove it to Jetway Support?
I do not have another motherboard to test the memory and I do not have additional memory sticks to test the motherboard.
Motherboard is -
JetWay JMA3-79GDG-LF AM3/AM2+/AM2
Memory is -
CORSAIR Dominator 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM TWIN2X2048-8500C5D
The machine will be fine for a few days, then I'll come home to it and find a black screen. The wireless keyboard does not wake it up (the LED on the USB fob does not flash as it normally does for keypresses and trackball movement) and I usually end up hard rebooting. Upon reboot, I go directly to memtest and the memory will fail. It usually passes all of test 1 and starts failing wildly in test 2 at which point I turn the power off, reseat the memory, reboot, go back to memtest to check it (all tests pass) and things will be fine again for a few days. Sometimes I have to reseat and/or trade the 2 modules multiple times before I get them to pass.
Because of the fact that the memory will pass memtest after reseating makes me feel that the issue must be with the motherboard along with the fact that I trust Corsair more than Jetway but how can I know for sure and how do I prove it to Jetway Support?
I do not have another motherboard to test the memory and I do not have additional memory sticks to test the motherboard.
Motherboard is -
JetWay JMA3-79GDG-LF AM3/AM2+/AM2
Memory is -
CORSAIR Dominator 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM TWIN2X2048-8500C5D