First time build, I used a GIGABYTE GA-970A-UD3 AM3+ AMD 970 motherboard and PNY Optima 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) RAM.
The computer boots up fine and runs ok, but windows update is failing a lot, the computer is freezing up occasionally, and I have gotten several blue screens. I tried reinstalling windows 7, but it gave me an error that was indicative of bad memory (I forget the code). So I ran Memtest86 and found a ton of errors. I assumed that it was just my memory that was bad, but I decided that before I ship it off for a replacement I would find which one was the problem, and then install updates with only the good RAM installed, so that I could at least get that set up. I went to test the ram individually, but found that they were both giving me errors in the same slot individually. They were returning different errors though, so I tried them in different slots, and memtest86 gave me similar locations of the errors for each memory board, but different locations between the boards. This is a small sample of what the location address of the errors I got:
Stick 1
00117adf998 test 8 Slot 4
001171d3998 test 8 Slot 2
001176df988 test 8 Slot 1
Stick 2
00108a45470 test 7 Slot 4
0010ac4d470 test 7 Slot 2
00102183638 test 7 Slot 1
I know it is unlikely that both sticks happen to be bad, but because the errors are similar in different slots, but different between memory sticks, is it a possibility that I just got two bad sticks of RAM?
The computer boots up fine and runs ok, but windows update is failing a lot, the computer is freezing up occasionally, and I have gotten several blue screens. I tried reinstalling windows 7, but it gave me an error that was indicative of bad memory (I forget the code). So I ran Memtest86 and found a ton of errors. I assumed that it was just my memory that was bad, but I decided that before I ship it off for a replacement I would find which one was the problem, and then install updates with only the good RAM installed, so that I could at least get that set up. I went to test the ram individually, but found that they were both giving me errors in the same slot individually. They were returning different errors though, so I tried them in different slots, and memtest86 gave me similar locations of the errors for each memory board, but different locations between the boards. This is a small sample of what the location address of the errors I got:
Stick 1
00117adf998 test 8 Slot 4
001171d3998 test 8 Slot 2
001176df988 test 8 Slot 1
Stick 2
00108a45470 test 7 Slot 4
0010ac4d470 test 7 Slot 2
00102183638 test 7 Slot 1
I know it is unlikely that both sticks happen to be bad, but because the errors are similar in different slots, but different between memory sticks, is it a possibility that I just got two bad sticks of RAM?
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