On 01/27/2015 03:28 PM, walt wrote: > My question is why didn't memtest86+ find any errors? Could it be that the > first RAM I bought was actually okay but this machine didn't like it for some > reason? Both were DDR3/1333MHz, just from different manufacturers. >
If the timing/voltage is set wrong in the BIOS this can happen. I had "bad" memory sticks where the BIOS assumed certain timings and voltage, but when I set them to the manufacturers recommendations (manually changing voltage and timings, and no, I was not overclocking...) they were fine. I ran the memory I had in its "bad" state and memtest checked out okay after leaving it for three days straight testing. Weirdest thing I'd ever seen. Dan
