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Apologies for large pictures - my system is crippled with errors due to RAM.
Symptoms
Upon completion of my system build I initially encountered the odd blue screen when running memory at 2133MHZ, I used MemTest 4.0 and found errors. I had read on Newegg (place of purchase) that others had trouble running at 2133MHZ to I lowered settings to 1600MHZ, ran MemTest and encountered no errors.
Then over a period of time whilst starting windows I had Windows 7 pause before loading to complete a consistency check (on several occasions that was locating corrupt files) - then yesterday a blue screen stating "Memory Management".. first I ran SFC which told me there were errors it could not fix - I then ran MemTest and found thousands of memory errors.
My first G.Skill purchase I was/am very disappointed (though I've found Newegg to be an unreliable source of hardware I must say) - I submitted an RMA form to send back all four sticks.
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Further Self Diagnosis
Today I figured I should try and narrow things down myself a little - I tilted my Lian Li X2000F case on it's side (no mean feat) and tried to access the RAM sticks from around the irritatingly large Noctua NH-D14 SE2011.
As it's a hassle to remove all four sticks due to the Noctua I removed the easiest one and tested the MemTest86'ed the system again - no errors!
Question
What recommendations do you have - is it just the one faulty stick of RAM - should I return all four - as one failed with moderate use possibly the others are just as unreliable?
Hardware
ASUS Rampage IV Extreme
Intel 3630K LGA 2011
G.Skill F3-17000CL9Q-16GBZH
Thanks for any input - sorry if I missed anything!
Symptoms
Upon completion of my system build I initially encountered the odd blue screen when running memory at 2133MHZ, I used MemTest 4.0 and found errors. I had read on Newegg (place of purchase) that others had trouble running at 2133MHZ to I lowered settings to 1600MHZ, ran MemTest and encountered no errors.
Then over a period of time whilst starting windows I had Windows 7 pause before loading to complete a consistency check (on several occasions that was locating corrupt files) - then yesterday a blue screen stating "Memory Management".. first I ran SFC which told me there were errors it could not fix - I then ran MemTest and found thousands of memory errors.
My first G.Skill purchase I was/am very disappointed (though I've found Newegg to be an unreliable source of hardware I must say) - I submitted an RMA form to send back all four sticks.
http://www.rageplatoon.com/public/images/2.JPG
Further Self Diagnosis
Today I figured I should try and narrow things down myself a little - I tilted my Lian Li X2000F case on it's side (no mean feat) and tried to access the RAM sticks from around the irritatingly large Noctua NH-D14 SE2011.
As it's a hassle to remove all four sticks due to the Noctua I removed the easiest one and tested the MemTest86'ed the system again - no errors!
Question
What recommendations do you have - is it just the one faulty stick of RAM - should I return all four - as one failed with moderate use possibly the others are just as unreliable?
Hardware
ASUS Rampage IV Extreme
Intel 3630K LGA 2011
G.Skill F3-17000CL9Q-16GBZH
Thanks for any input - sorry if I missed anything!
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