How long should you run memtest86?

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nisei

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Here are System Specs

AMD Athlon 2500+ (Barton) Running at 3200+ speed
1 GB PC3200 Kingston Value RAM (2x512) in Dual Channel
Abit NF7 Motherboard
NForce Drivers 5.1
ATI Radeon 9550 w/Non Catalyst 5.11 Drivers
Stock HSF

I ran memtest86 for 1 hour and it found no errors, but when I use my middle RAM channel I get errors, so I am assuming that that channel is bad. When I put the ram in the far left channel and the far right channel, for Dual Channel I ran memtest for an hour with no errors. So should I be running it longer?

Also when I try to run prime95 either at 2500+ or 3200+ speeds it fails with a hardware error. It runs longer at 3200+, but still fails.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

:D
 
I've seen that doing four passes of all the tests on the memory is a good start. That's worked well for me. Sometimes all of the tests give no errors on pass 1 & 2 but then show up on 3 so it's good to run more than a couple of passes. It depends on the ram speed how long it will take. Some may tell you to run longer and they might be right. I only overclock to a comfortable level so to save time, I spend less on testing and then back it down a couple of steps when I start getting errors.

Just so someone else doesn't have to ask, what are your temps? Have you tried bumping the voltage up a step or two on the proc or ram?
 
i like to loop all tests for >3 hours per gb of memory for finding stability. any errors are bad :D
 
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