Anything else??

[Celegorm]

Well, I'll be bringing in my comptuer to work tomarrow because I have some bad RAM (again) The RAM is making my comptuer shutdown. I have ran MEMtest and it ran into three errors before shutting down.

I used a digital meter to read my volts from my PSU to make sure it was good, and everything held steady at +/- 0.15 volts from where they should be.

I know that dominator RAM does not agree with 680 chipsets, so i'm gonig with somethign that i know works well, Buffalo Firestix. But I have a question for you. Do you think i've missed anything right now? Or do you think that when i pop in new ram to test that's really all that is left, besides a possible bad mobo?

 

[freestyler105]

If memtest failed, your memory is bad.

 

[Celegorm]

^^ yeah, that much I know. But is there anything else I havn't thought of that you think I should check out while it's down just to be sure it is all ok?

 

[CompMan]

Well you said your psu was giving out good voltage, so that should be good.

If memtest failed its going to be your memory. Everything should be fine.

 

[Raffaz]

Have you tested your PSU under load? If its flakey then thats when its gonna under perform mate. Sometimes a BIOS update can help with incompatable RAM, so are there any newer updates that address this problem?

 

[Celegorm]

Yeah, the voltage tester I used has fake load on it so It should be relitivly accurate.

I will do a bios update to be safe, but the dominators still are not on the compatability list. Its weird, it's little brother, the XMS2 is compatable....

 

[Celegorm]

Just a bump to update all those who helped confirm my suspicions:

I installed new RAM and updated BIOS. Now, I am able to run memtest with no errors as long as I want. My system hasn't shut itself down since the new ram, so i can only hope...

Assuming It's all good now, thanks for helping me confirm my suspicions