memory or motherboard?

[pbj75]

Put the computer together last May. Been running well until Friday night. Haven't changed any hardware in 2 months. Never even overclocked. I know, I know, just never needed to. Maybe for HL2 or Doom3. Anyway, starting Friday night, all my downloads from Usenet were corrupted. Using Agent 2.0. Started a couple of other applications, then started Agent, and voila, the downloads were fine.

Thinking memory, I ran Memtest86. The test hung at 8 minutes on test 7. Pulled out one of the memory sticks and tested again. Test hung at 5 minutes. Swapped the memory sticks. Test hung again. Proceeded to try every configuration of memory and slots (2 sticks * 4 slots = 8 configurations) and sometimes I would get error reports, usually just a hung test. No combination was solid.

After all that, I am thinking it is the MB. I am skeptical that BOTH sticks of memory would just happen to fail. If I had an extra stick of DDR around, I would give it a go, but is that really necessary? With all that testing and the results, doesn't it have to be the MB?

So, have I missed something (usually obvious ), or is the MB the likely culprit?

 

[BEdZ]

sounds like the MB to me.

 

[pbj75]

Thanks for the input.

Now, I am in the midst of begging a warranty MB out of Asus. So far, I am not encouraged. No phone call back, no email. They do post to the problem report log on the Web, so that is probably my best bet. Of course, their first response was to tell me to try the memory in all the slots and make sure I had approved memory. All of which, I had already done and told them I had already done. Sigh.

 

[djnes]

I'm thinking motherboard too. Good luck with Asus's support. If you bought it last May, it should still be under warranty.