Memory Diagnostics failing at 21%

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I have 4 1gB sticks of Kingston memory in a Gigabyte GA-965p-ds3 ver 3.3,
with bios at ver F10, running at normal speeds. Due to a concern about faulty
data after doing an Easy Transfer from another system, I ran Vista Memory
Diagnostics in "Extended" mode (Standard mode tests ok). It fails at 21%
whether I run it on all four modules, remove two of the modules, replace them
with the other two modules, or run just one module.
Memtest86 runs ok.
Any ideas? I have even changed the BIOS settings to run the memory at 533mhz
(it is 667mhz memory).
 
Also:
Is there a way to view the MemDiag.bin file that is created in the
\Windows\system32\logfiles folder? All I get from Memory Diagnostics is a
message that my memory failed the test and I should go to my supplier!
 
Kim said:
I have 4 1gB sticks of Kingston memory in a Gigabyte GA-965p-ds3 ver 3.3,
with bios at ver F10, running at normal speeds. Due to a concern about
faulty
data after doing an Easy Transfer from another system, I ran Vista Memory
Diagnostics in "Extended" mode (Standard mode tests ok). It fails at 21%
whether I run it on all four modules, remove two of the modules, replace
them
with the other two modules, or run just one module.
Memtest86 runs ok.
Any ideas? I have even changed the BIOS settings to run the memory at
533mhz
(it is 667mhz memory).
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Did you run Memtest86 or Memtest86+? It should be the latter. Also let
each diagnostic run for some time, like overnight, not just a single pass.
Here are three utilities to try. Run at least two of them.

Memtest86+
http://www.memtest.org/

Windows Memory Diagnostic
http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

DocMemory Memory Diagnostic
http://www.simmtester.com/page/products/doc/download.asp
 
Thanks, Rock. I will try them. I decided to RMA the memory and replace it
with a higher performance type, but I am curious to see what Memtest86 says.
There are times when I was testing this memory that it would hang at 21% for
a long time and then go on and pass the test, so, who knows. Wish MS would
give more tech info on their test.
 
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