[thelist] Desparate, Please Help: Memory Problem [OT]

[Hugh Blair]

> -----Original Message-----
> On Behalf Of Chris Johnston
>
> Great, thanks, but is there anyway I can be sure that it is my ram and
> not some other component like the motherboard or the cpu?

In a word, no. But the symptoms you described (well done there) really
point to your RAM. Your hard disk is out of the picture, the CPU is 99%
out of the picture. It could be a motherboard issue, but since memory
is fairly cheap, that's the place to start. If putting all new memory
chips in doesn't solve it, then it's probably a motherboard issue. But
those are rare.

High odds it's memory. Besides, you said "I have run a memory
test program - memtest86 - and it found 9 errors while it was going
through test #10." There is points to the error.

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   Hugh