Grake Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 (edited) Hi,I have 4 stick of memory, each 1 GB. I bought it all on a sale. Whenever I use them, my system bsod's. How do I find out which one is at fault. I'm hoping not all 4 are faulty. I ran memtest on it like 6 months ago, but stopped after 4 hours of it not giving me any info. How long should I run it for? is there any other way to figure out which one of the stick is faulty.I don't necessarily have 4 days to use each stick one at a time to see which one is faulty.guess my main question is, how long should memtest be run for to get a result? Edited August 29, 2009 by Grake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 its pretty simple, use only one stick at a time..run memtest overnight.now what exactly do you mean your system BSODs? instantly? or after many hours of using it?what motherboard do you have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grake Posted August 29, 2009 Author Share Posted August 29, 2009 It happens at random times when I'm working on it. It's an ASUS P5Q mobo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 what BSOD error do you get?you also claim that its only when using this ram that you get a BSOD, what else have you tried?is anything overclocked? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiefZeke Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 If the system runs long enough you could also go to www.crucial.com and run their memory tets on your sytem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grake Posted August 30, 2009 Author Share Posted August 30, 2009 Nothing is overclocked, I don't remember the BDOD's it's been a while since I tried those memory in. I'll try it again and let you know.I'll try that too chief. ty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcarle Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 If memtest doesn't reveal any problems, try running Prime95 on one stick at a time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted September 6, 2009 Share Posted September 6, 2009 Memtest stopped? The longest I ran memtest for was 3 weeks!ok ok, so I didn't do it on purpose. Someone turned the monitor off and I forgot about it until I needed to move that PC to make space for others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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