Two bad memory sticks?

[madacoustiks]

I recently bought an Asus Z77-V LK MB and 8 GB Patriot Gamer 2 Series DDR3 1600 RAM and got everything put together. It seems like I'm having problems with both memory sticks. I have tested them separately in different slots on the MB and both throw errors in Memtest86+. Isn't it really rare to have two bad sticks of memory? Could it be something with the MB or even the CPU? Isn't the memory controller on the CPU now? When I first booted it, one of the sticks wasn't fully seated, but then I turned it off and seated the memory.

 

[Dangman]

Not really rare. Yes the memory controller is on the CPU. However you really can't tell if it's a mobo or CPU issue until you test that RAM in another PC.

 

[4fingerninja]

Find some other ram to put in the board and test it out. The odds that both sticks are dead are very slim.

 

[madacoustiks]

Thanks guys. I got another stick of memory that's a different brand and it's made it through one pass of memtest so far. I'll let it run for a couple more passes but at this point it looks like both sticks were bad. Interesting.