bluescreen crashes - memtest(s) crashes also

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user777

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I have ACER Aspire 5102 WLMi and 2x 1GB Kingston DDR2 RAMs attached.

My computer crashes randomly, and bluescreen appears and computer shuts down.
When testing memories both RAMs attached, memtest86 (or memtest hci) suddenly, middle of the test, crashes and computer shuts down.
However, when testing only one RAM attached at a time. Test will not crash and RAMs are ok according to the test.

What might be a problem? Bad RAMs? How could I know which RAM is bad?
 
first check one piece in a slot. Then in the other.
Then repeat it for the other piece.
gimme a reply on the results.
 
Memory controller. Choking on the dual channel. I've seen it happen here very recently. You can put one stick in at a time. Put both in, the computer chokes.
 
viper: I've tested the RAMs one at a time. They were fine then.

SirKenin said:
Memory controller. Choking on the dual channel. I've seen it happen here very recently. You can put one stick in at a time. Put both in, the computer chokes.
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I used to have 2x 512MB RAMs installed and they were working fine.
This crashing problem has occured now when I upgraded RAMs to 2x 1GB.

Maybe something could be done?
 
I managed to catch the bluescreen stop code.
In the link below is screen capture from it.


The stop code is: 0x000000F4


aumha.org says this stop code following:
http://aumha.org/a/stop.htm

" 0x000000F4: CRITICAL_OBJECT_TERMINATION

One of the many processes or threads crucial to system operation has unexpectedly exited or been terminated. As a result, the system can no longer function. Specific causes are many, and often best resolved by a careful history of the problem and the circumstances of the error message. One user, who experienced this on return from Standby mode on Win XP SP2, found the cause was that Windows was installed on a slave drive;"

This says not much to me. If anyone knows if this is a memory related problem, I would be pleased to know.
 
is it new memory? and its doing a memory dump? i just had this problem with some memory i bought and i took down the values and typed it in google and those codes were for faulty memory. take down the reasons of the memory dump and search. if it is faulty and under warranty go return it asap
 
also i saw what you said about the stop code. i dont know what that means either, but the codes i took down are near the beginning of the screen dump. attached by underscores and i beleive they were in caps..

get those codes next time this happens
 
Yes, these are new RAMs I've bought recently. With old chips computer crashed never.
I would return them by means of warranty, but memtest86 will go through fine when testing one chip installed at a time. When both chips are installed and tested; the test crashes and computer shuts down.

I don't know are these rams bad. Can I return these chips?

Darth Menace said:
but the codes i took down are near the beginning of the screen dump. attached by underscores and i beleive they were in caps..

get those codes next time this happens
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Only code I get on bluescreen is this:
stop 0x000000f4 (0x00000003, 0x87e10020, 0x87e10194, 0x805d11f8)

I don't know what should I do with those four parameters.
 
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well, i dont know about those codes either, but with my bluescreen memory dump (when i had faulty NEW memory) there was something at the top that says something in the ways of

IRQ_NOT_EQUAL_OR_LESS (or something like that) mine said that now and than and also gave me some other letterings like that, and when searched they all meant Shoddy memory.
 
Today this machine crashes with a new stop code: KERNEL_STACK_INPAGE_ERROR
0x00000077 (0xC000000E, 0xC000000E, 0x00000000, 0x0AC26000).

This references either bad block on the harddisk or to a bad ram. If I would know which of these rams are the bad one I could return it. The only problem is, memtest says they are ok when testing alone, but together it crashes.
 
SirKenin said:
Memory controller. Choking on the dual channel. I've seen it happen here very recently. You can put one stick in at a time. Put both in, the computer chokes.
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i really think you had the answer like 10 posts ago or something...
try testing the modules in another pc with a mobo that supports dual channel
 
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