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Some ram needs to be in pairs or even triple sets. They work differently single versus multiple and could fail one way and not the other way.
You have to run memtest for a day or so to get better results. '
Your logic isn't exactly correct. One could have perfect ram and an OS fails on it. Changing ram may seem to fix it but there is a lot more going on than meets the eye.
Try a few different versions of memory diagnostics too.
In some cases the default memory test options don't include things like or does include ecc or such.
Swapping out a ram may help reset the ram or the ram controller too so we don't have report on retesting to prove.
Parts and boards are kind of a bad sales scheme. A board may say it can use XWY's brand of ram but really you can't be sure of anything. Ram could be different version, batch or such. Motherboard may have cpu or power supply issues. Really can't tell.
Does ram work in bios failsafe or default settings?
It shouldn't reboot. Once memtest86 completes all tests in a pass (with or without errors) it should just start another pass. A spontaneous reboot suggests a problem in the memory occupied by the program itself.
It shouldn't reboot. Once memtest86 completes all tests in a pass (with or without errors) it should just start another pass. A spontaneous reboot suggests a problem in the memory occupied by the program itself.
That was my bad, I did option 2 which is only 1 pass.
Memtest just reports errors. When it gets past the bad spot it reports nothing until gets to same, bad location and the errors get reported again. etc.
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