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Couldn't hurt to test the RAM. I use memtest86+ - http://www.memtest.org/
How will I know when a cycle is completed?
In all of the colums it says there are errors but memtest hasn't failed or anything...what does that mean?
You can try them one at a time to find which is bad.
I'm not exactly sure what messing with the BIOS, and trying one chip at a time have to do with each other...but if you want to find out exactly what chip is bad, you pull all but one and try them one at a time. You certainly don't need to enter the BIOS for that.
I would imagine the warranty clauses would change from company to company, in terms of what's transferrable or not. From my own experiences, anytime I've RAM'd sticks of memory, they've replaced the entire kit, even the good stick. The new package I was given was new, sealed, unopened, and had it's own warranty period.
I'll say this one more to for clarity's sake. Put everything at stocks speeds, use one memory stick at a time, and run the tests. It's possible the memory is fine, but that you have it overclocked too far. Follow the steps that are needed properly, and find out for sure what's wrong.
So looks like my 2 are going to get RMA.
But I'm scared about my mobo do you think it could have killed the ram? I have my good ram in the slots that the bad ram was in should I be leary?
One more thing In CPU-Z it shows under SPD Max Bandwidth PC2-5300 333MHZ <-- Is that right my rams sposed to be ddr2 6400 firestix?
You now mentioned that you're OCing the memory. It's possible the memory may not be bad at all, just OC'ed to far. It makes no sense what you said earlier about not wanting to disrupt your OC by running with only one stick, but that's not the point. If you suspect a bad part, you shouldn't be OCing at all.What you guys talking about I already found the bad sticks?
Ugggh, forget it. It's your system. If you want to be this difficult and refuse to listen to people you've solicited for help, that's fine. You don't need to do a goddamn thing to your BIOS to try one stick of memory. On top of that, no one in their right mind would continue overclocking if they suspected their memory was bad. There's a chance, albeit not a large one, that your RMA'd memory would come back and give you the same problems. Enjoy.
They could have been really mean and told you that you wherent running enought voltage and to crank it to 2.7+v and watch you squirm as it fryed.. at this point considering your attitude, it would have been justifyed.
BTW... when mem test displays a half black screen like that, it usually means you are running the memory controller to hard... ( meaning your OC is not stable)
Just because it was stable for a long time overclocked, doesn't mean it will be stable forever. The very first "con" to overclocking is that you can shorten the life of your components. When you decided to overclock, this was a risk you accepted. As everyone has been trying to tell you, it is very possible that your OC is causing a problem, maybe causing the memory to go bad, or worse, causing the mobo or memory slots to go bad. Once you get that through your thick head, and realize people are trying to help you out, we might actually make progress. If this was my computer, I would want to know, without a doubt, the exact problem I was having, so I could replace or RMA that exact part and be done with it. Common sense, dude. Basic knowledge as well, that someone giving advice on overclocking would surely know. If you want us to believe you aren't new to this and have written guides on the subject, stop acting like an arrogant noob and follow the advice laid out before you.This system has been stable for months until this last week or two.
It wasn't obvious, but it was likely the cause. It also could very well have been something else, like the mobo. Fact is, we tried helping you to be 100% sure of the problem, instead of 75% or so.obviously something went wrong with the ram.