Hey all,
I run a 16GB DDR3 system in a 4x4GB setting. The memory has been like this for well over a year now (before then I had 8GB in a 2x4GB configuration and these two sticks have worked for seven years now, I'm 100% positive they're good) and only recently the system has been giving me some odd behaviour which seems to be tied to memory... Except I can't troubleshoot it at all.
From time to time, something will crash. Mostly it's the browser, but often times memory-heavy games will crash, too. This happens especially when the memory usage is nearing 80%+. The errors are generic, the usual 'Whoops, this tab has crashed' or something. I have a 4GB pagefile in a working SSD, and placed it there just in case it was pagefile related... Nope. The crashes are random and the system itself never crashes or bluescreens. The few games that give me errors instead of just crashing all point to memory, such as 'couldn't write/read to memory at address xxxx'. Surely one of the sticks is bad, right?
I've ran Memtest86+ for a few hours on the system - nothing. Previously I've had a bad stick of RAM and it detected errors in like 5 seconds of Memtest. I have also tried OCCT's software tool for error detecting in memory, which runs off the OS and might find things Memtest86 misses, but also nothing. Nothing crashed while the test ran and I've ran it multiple times, considering it's much easier than setting up Memtest86. Hell, I'm running it right now and memory is at 95% usage. I had a spare 2GB stick sitting around and so I've swapped it for these not-so-recently acquired 4GB sticks, one at a time, guessing that something was off with either one of them, or both. The crashes still happen and both memory tests still report no errors whatsoever.
Other than a bad memory slot, which I unfortunately have no way of testing but don't think would cause this sort of trouble (might be wrong on this one tho), and a GPU upgrade I've had for well over a year now, I can't think of anything else that could be related to the issue. The crashes are very rare and random and sometimes even at heavy memory loads, don't happen. But they've been happening for months now and I don't think it's a coincidence. Any ideas?
I run a 16GB DDR3 system in a 4x4GB setting. The memory has been like this for well over a year now (before then I had 8GB in a 2x4GB configuration and these two sticks have worked for seven years now, I'm 100% positive they're good) and only recently the system has been giving me some odd behaviour which seems to be tied to memory... Except I can't troubleshoot it at all.
From time to time, something will crash. Mostly it's the browser, but often times memory-heavy games will crash, too. This happens especially when the memory usage is nearing 80%+. The errors are generic, the usual 'Whoops, this tab has crashed' or something. I have a 4GB pagefile in a working SSD, and placed it there just in case it was pagefile related... Nope. The crashes are random and the system itself never crashes or bluescreens. The few games that give me errors instead of just crashing all point to memory, such as 'couldn't write/read to memory at address xxxx'. Surely one of the sticks is bad, right?
I've ran Memtest86+ for a few hours on the system - nothing. Previously I've had a bad stick of RAM and it detected errors in like 5 seconds of Memtest. I have also tried OCCT's software tool for error detecting in memory, which runs off the OS and might find things Memtest86 misses, but also nothing. Nothing crashed while the test ran and I've ran it multiple times, considering it's much easier than setting up Memtest86. Hell, I'm running it right now and memory is at 95% usage. I had a spare 2GB stick sitting around and so I've swapped it for these not-so-recently acquired 4GB sticks, one at a time, guessing that something was off with either one of them, or both. The crashes still happen and both memory tests still report no errors whatsoever.
Other than a bad memory slot, which I unfortunately have no way of testing but don't think would cause this sort of trouble (might be wrong on this one tho), and a GPU upgrade I've had for well over a year now, I can't think of anything else that could be related to the issue. The crashes are very rare and random and sometimes even at heavy memory loads, don't happen. But they've been happening for months now and I don't think it's a coincidence. Any ideas?