Faulty RAM

[Grake]

Hi,

I have 4 stick of memory, each 1 GB. I bought it all on a sale. Whenever I use them, my system bsod's. How do I find out which one is at fault. I'm hoping not all 4 are faulty. I ran memtest on it like 6 months ago, but stopped after 4 hours of it not giving me any info.

How long should I run it for? is there any other way to figure out which one of the stick is faulty.

I don't necessarily have 4 days to use each stick one at a time to see which one is faulty.

guess my main question is, how long should memtest be run for to get a result?

Edited August 29, 2009 by Grake

[ripken204]

its pretty simple, use only one stick at a time..

run memtest overnight.

now what exactly do you mean your system BSODs? instantly? or after many hours of using it?

what motherboard do you have?

[Grake]

It happens at random times when I'm working on it. It's an ASUS P5Q mobo

[ripken204]

what BSOD error do you get?

you also claim that its only when using this ram that you get a BSOD, what else have you tried?

is anything overclocked?

[ChiefZeke]

If the system runs long enough you could also go to www.crucial.com and run their memory tets on your sytem

[Grake]

Nothing is overclocked, I don't remember the BDOD's it's been a while since I tried those memory in. I'll try it again and let you know.

I'll try that too chief. ty

[jcarle]

If memtest doesn't reveal any problems, try running Prime95 on one stick at a time.

[Tripredacus]

Memtest stopped? The longest I ran memtest for was 3 weeks!

ok ok, so I didn't do it on purpose. Someone turned the monitor off and I forgot about it until I needed to move that PC to make space for others.