About two months ago,I put together a new computer,and everything was fine for about a month and week.
After that, I started getting crashes (random reboots) and errors in orthos and memtest (about 80 errors or so, and always in test 4. Memory addresses were on both sticks), whereas previously I had been able to run both with no problems for 10+ hours each.
I noticed that orthos errored much faster when running large fft/blend rather than small, so I figured it was a ram issue. I rotated the ram, which didn't do anything, and then switched them to the other two ram slots, which seemed fine. I ran memtest and orthos for 12 hours again each, and everything was fine...for about a week.
This morning I woke up and noticed that windows had rebooted and was at the login screen. Upon logging in, I got an error about a corrupted file and that I'd have to run chkdsk. I ran orthos on large fft, and it immediately rebooted. I went into memtest, and it started spitting out a lot of errors. Not just in test 4, but also in the other 3 tests before it. About 1500 errors before even finishing test 4.
Is it possible that the problem is with the cpu or motherboard, and not the ram? I find it very odd that it runs for weeks at a time, and then suddenly I have issues. Later this week I'm going to try testing out the ram on a friend's machine,and his ram on mine, so hopefully, that will confirm a ram error.
My hardware:
Intel Core 2 Duo e7200 (overclocked, or stock, I still get ram errors)
Gigabyte EP35-DS3L
2GB (2X1GB) DDR2 800 Crucial Ballistix, being run at Crucial's specified settings.
If it is a ram issue, will I be able to RMA it? I no longer have the packaging or receipts, since I sent them in for a rebate, which I'm currently waiting on.
Thanks.
After that, I started getting crashes (random reboots) and errors in orthos and memtest (about 80 errors or so, and always in test 4. Memory addresses were on both sticks), whereas previously I had been able to run both with no problems for 10+ hours each.
I noticed that orthos errored much faster when running large fft/blend rather than small, so I figured it was a ram issue. I rotated the ram, which didn't do anything, and then switched them to the other two ram slots, which seemed fine. I ran memtest and orthos for 12 hours again each, and everything was fine...for about a week.
This morning I woke up and noticed that windows had rebooted and was at the login screen. Upon logging in, I got an error about a corrupted file and that I'd have to run chkdsk. I ran orthos on large fft, and it immediately rebooted. I went into memtest, and it started spitting out a lot of errors. Not just in test 4, but also in the other 3 tests before it. About 1500 errors before even finishing test 4.
Is it possible that the problem is with the cpu or motherboard, and not the ram? I find it very odd that it runs for weeks at a time, and then suddenly I have issues. Later this week I'm going to try testing out the ram on a friend's machine,and his ram on mine, so hopefully, that will confirm a ram error.
My hardware:
Intel Core 2 Duo e7200 (overclocked, or stock, I still get ram errors)
Gigabyte EP35-DS3L
2GB (2X1GB) DDR2 800 Crucial Ballistix, being run at Crucial's specified settings.
If it is a ram issue, will I be able to RMA it? I no longer have the packaging or receipts, since I sent them in for a rebate, which I'm currently waiting on.
Thanks.