Test them in a different slot each individually. if still fails install
both. swap back and forth.
-Andy


On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Florian Philipp <lists@binarywings.net>wrote:

> Am 05.03.2013 22:14, schrieb walt:
> > On 03/05/2013 09:56 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> >
> >> intel introduced an extension for spd information. The ram should work
> >> just fine. Intel motherboards might or might not make use of the
> >> additional information. so might or might not amd boards. And no, there
> >> won't be any risk. DDR3 is DDR3.
> >
> > I just discovered some bad DDR2 RAM in an older machine (2GB x 2) and I
> > tested each stick separately using memtest86.  The result confuses me:
> >
> > Each 2GB stick fails at exactly the same point in the test (0-32MB), and
> > that seems improbable to me.  I'm thinking the mobo might be broken
> instead
> > of the RAM.  Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks.  (I have only the one machine that uses DDR2, unfortunately.)
> >
>
> Try adjusting the timing as noted on this thread. Maybe slower settings
> work better, even if they are below SPD. Also look at the voltages (most
> BIOSes show them). If they are considerably off, this could affect your
> RAM. A bad power supply is always a suspect when something breaks.
>
> Regards,
> Florian Philipp
>
>
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