Ram Errors.. are they OK?

[Interested]

Hey guys. i just got my 2gb of ram today in the mail. Took my old crap out, in with the new. Fire my rig up and it works like a charm. When running memtest it says that copying from 762500 to 762501 has an error. is that a big problem? how many errors are acceptable? BTW, i baught the ram on newegg, so i can return it...

Thx,
Just Interested

 

[Cromewell]

How many errors should you get? None. Try moving the sticks around and/or retesting if want but you shouldn't be getting any errors.

 

[Interested]

ok.....thx....could a problem be that i accidentally interupted the test?

 

[addle_brains]

Depends what you mean by 'accidentally interrupted'

 

[Interested]

the screen shut off so i moved the mouse to turn it back on

 

[Interested]

please delete this accedental message.

 

[Interested]

ok. at 50 percent i had to errors so i restarted and did 2 tests. both @ 807 mb. is that good?

 

[Interested]

yes, no? please help...

 

[Cromewell]

I'd replace the RAM.

 

[Interested]

i did three tests.

First: 2 error

Second: 1 error

Third: 0 errors

What now?

 

[Michael]

Exchange the RAM and hope for the best next time

 

[Cromewell]

You shouldn't get errors, unless you had the RAM in different slots for the 3rd round of testing I would still exhange the RAM. I had some RAM that was bad but worked fine once you got it 'warmed up.' It would blue screen after being off for a couple days and a memory test would report an error if it hadn't been powered on for about a 1/2 hour