Troubles with Windows Memory Diagnostic Tool

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JOEL RICHARD-FOY

Hello,

Due to several "blue screen", I decided to check the memory of my PC (
Mother Board: GIGABYTE GA-K8NXp-SLI with 2 x1Go Corsair XMS Platium series,
this configuration has worked fine for more than 1 year).

I made test with Windows Memory Diagnostic" (WMD) and MEMTEST86.

MEMTEST86 doesn't see any problem; but when I run WMD it hangs after few
time during LRAND phase always at the same @: 09D978.
To determine the faulty element,
a) I swaped the 2 memory sticks and
b) made test with only 1 stick installed,
c) move the stick on each memory slot.

Each time WMD hangs (I need to reboot) at the same address while running
LRAND.

Questions:
1 - Why does WMD hang and doesn't report an error?
2 - Why MEMTEST86 doesn't see any problem ?
3- I suspect a problem with Chip Set ( NVDIA), am I wrong or right ?

PS: for "Blue Screen" Experts; Information on the "Blue Screen" are: STOP
0x0000009C ( 0x00000004, 0x8086F1F0, 0xB2000000, 0x00070F0F). Some time
system reboot without "Blue Screen"! Any clue ?

Thanks for any help.

JO
 
Windows memory tester should'nt hang at all.Try reinstalling to another MS
DOS floppy,or try the cd version.Or,try running in advanced mode
 
Andrew

The WMD shouldn't hang; but it does! I used the same floppy to check memory
on other PC without any trouble! That why I think I have an Hardware
problem: CPU, CACHE, BUS, ... It seems that the test algorithm used by WDM
generates the CPU/CACHE/BUS fault; but not those used by MEMTEST86.
best regards.
Joël
 
JO47 said:
Andrew

The WMD shouldn't hang; but it does! I used the same floppy to check memory
on other PC without any trouble! That why I think I have an Hardware
problem: CPU, CACHE, BUS, ... It seems that the test algorithm used by WDM
generates the CPU/CACHE/BUS fault; but not those used by MEMTEST86.
best regards.
Joël
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Pay zero attention to Andrew E. He is a brainless bozo who persists
in posting meaningless, useless, or just plain wrong responses on
these newsgroups.

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has never been in bed with a mosquito."
 
JOEL said:
Hello,

Due to several "blue screen", I decided to check the memory of my PC (
Mother Board: GIGABYTE GA-K8NXp-SLI with 2 x1Go Corsair XMS Platium
series, this configuration has worked fine for more than 1 year).

I made test with Windows Memory Diagnostic" (WMD) and MEMTEST86.

MEMTEST86 doesn't see any problem; but when I run WMD it hangs after
few time during LRAND phase always at the same @: 09D978.
To determine the faulty element,
a) I swaped the 2 memory sticks and
b) made test with only 1 stick installed,
c) move the stick on each memory slot.

Each time WMD hangs (I need to reboot) at the same address while
running LRAND.

Questions:
1 - Why does WMD hang and doesn't report an error?
2 - Why MEMTEST86 doesn't see any problem ?
3- I suspect a problem with Chip Set ( NVDIA), am I wrong or right ?

PS: for "Blue Screen" Experts; Information on the "Blue Screen" are:
STOP 0x0000009C ( 0x00000004, 0x8086F1F0, 0xB2000000, 0x00070F0F).
Some time system reboot without "Blue Screen"! Any clue ?

Thanks for any help.

JO
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I have the same experience with WMD when using a Promise Fasttrac
card. I ran memtest86+ configured for all tests (over 12 hours) no
errors
and the boxen runs just fine. I just quit thinking about it.
 
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