Boot Problem

TheChef

TheChef

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My computer recently stopped booting correctly. It would get to the Windows XP boot screen, and then quickly flash a blue screen error, too fast to read it, and tthen restart. I decided to run MemTest86+ from my BIOS, and there were three found errors, all from test 5. I tried using one stick or the other, but my computer still wouldn't boot. I then started to repair Windows, and as it was installing the devices an error occurred, called machine_check_error

Microsoft Support Page

It said that Overclocking, a bad PSU, or faulty memory was the cause of the error. My PSU isn't too great, but I doubt it would be the cause of this. I had my processor overclocked, but it's now back to normal and the temperature never got above 45. Would the three memtest errors be the cause of this/ do I need new ram?

Thanks:)
 
Well if you got any errors in your RAM it's toast, so my guess is you'll need to be getting new RAM. Before you do though test 1 stick in each slot by itself, you might just have a broken RAM slot (it's happened to me a few times).
 
So any errors in Memtest require new RAM? I'm guessing there's not a way to fix it. I've tested the individual sticks.

Anyone selling RAM?:)
 
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