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MooCow
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Well I was testing an old pair of Corsair XMS3200 CMX1024PRO sticks of ram that have been collecting dust for many years now.
I looked them up on ebay and you can still hock up a good 75 bucks off of this set of 2Gigs of DDR1 RAM. This is because they had the LED activity lights on the top edges of them, they retailed for $370 at the time they were new.
Being a good seller, I decided to test them before selling them. I used the ULTIMATE BOOT CD 4.11. I ended up getting errors on both sticks plugged in, and one independently tested using MEMTEST86.
However, using WINVC memory test, it passed all 6 tests.
Why does this happen? And I have a feeling that winvc sucks because that may be the same utility that Dell has built into there onboard BIOS for laptops....
Why make a memory testing application if it doesn't go all the way through? Or is there something I'm missing about memtest throwing false alarm / false positives?
I looked them up on ebay and you can still hock up a good 75 bucks off of this set of 2Gigs of DDR1 RAM. This is because they had the LED activity lights on the top edges of them, they retailed for $370 at the time they were new.
Being a good seller, I decided to test them before selling them. I used the ULTIMATE BOOT CD 4.11. I ended up getting errors on both sticks plugged in, and one independently tested using MEMTEST86.
However, using WINVC memory test, it passed all 6 tests.
Why does this happen? And I have a feeling that winvc sucks because that may be the same utility that Dell has built into there onboard BIOS for laptops....
Why make a memory testing application if it doesn't go all the way through? Or is there something I'm missing about memtest throwing false alarm / false positives?