run memtest86+ on the thing
On 4 Jan 2010, at 23:49:460, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
I just put 8 GB of G.Skill ram only my Mobo (Gigabite P35-DS4).
This is DD2-1066 CL5-5-5-15 ram. I got this from NewEgg.
I quickly noticed Win7 would crash before too long. Finally, I got
into Prime95 and it immediately halted saying that there was an
error in calculation (it was getting wrong results for known
calculations!). After seeing this, I put the old 2G of HyperX
DD2-800 ram back in the system. Prime95 seems to be working now,
though I have not completed a full-length stress test. I have been
using this ram for the last two years, though.
I did try a few other setting of the timing on the G.Skill ram, but
never got to anything that seems stable.
Should I keep going with this ram (while trying to find some setting
that works) or seek to return for an exchange with Newegg? By the
way, the old ram gets a 5.5 on Windows Experience Index while the
new ram gets a 7.2.
Thanks.
