Bad memory.
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I received my order of 2gb of notebook memory yesterday. It is the Corsair Value Select series. I ran memtest86 and memtest86+ and it found that the very first byte is bad. :( :sigh: Sometimes it works, sometimes it don't. What is stored in that first byte? If it is nothing important or is used to shadow the bios or something then will it be safe to leave it in? What are your thoughts?
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I received my order of 2gb of notebook memory yesterday. It is the Corsair Value Select series. I ran memtest86 and memtest86+ and it found that the very first byte is bad. :( :sigh: Sometimes it works, sometimes it don't. What is stored in that first byte? If it is nothing important or is used to shadow the bios or something then will it be safe to leave it in? What are your thoughts?
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Captain See Sharp wrote:
Sometimes it works, sometimes it don't.
That is exactly what you will get. Memory isn't allocated like disk, or rather it is allocated as the base free area of the disk, first come, first serve. If you have the bios settings adding shadow, it may use it, or the OS may use it, or it may be offered up to software. I hate to say it, but failed memory is failed memory. You will get intermittent failures as long as it is in your system, which is exactly what you are getting.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Captain See Sharp wrote:
Sometimes it works, sometimes it don't.
That is exactly what you will get. Memory isn't allocated like disk, or rather it is allocated as the base free area of the disk, first come, first serve. If you have the bios settings adding shadow, it may use it, or the OS may use it, or it may be offered up to software. I hate to say it, but failed memory is failed memory. You will get intermittent failures as long as it is in your system, which is exactly what you are getting.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
Thats not very inspiring. :| I will be doing some testing to see if it causes any problems. If my BOIS would permit I would loosen the timings a tad or decrease the FSB speed by 10mhz or so but I can't do that on my laptop.
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I received my order of 2gb of notebook memory yesterday. It is the Corsair Value Select series. I ran memtest86 and memtest86+ and it found that the very first byte is bad. :( :sigh: Sometimes it works, sometimes it don't. What is stored in that first byte? If it is nothing important or is used to shadow the bios or something then will it be safe to leave it in? What are your thoughts?
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Captain See Sharp wrote:
What are your thoughts?
Ignorance is bliss. Why'd you have to go and run memory test? Now you're miserable. ;P Marc
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I received my order of 2gb of notebook memory yesterday. It is the Corsair Value Select series. I ran memtest86 and memtest86+ and it found that the very first byte is bad. :( :sigh: Sometimes it works, sometimes it don't. What is stored in that first byte? If it is nothing important or is used to shadow the bios or something then will it be safe to leave it in? What are your thoughts?
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Captain See Sharp wrote:
the very first byte is bad. Sometimes it works, sometimes it don't.
Huh, so C# does not solve every memory problem, after all. :laugh:
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I received my order of 2gb of notebook memory yesterday. It is the Corsair Value Select series. I ran memtest86 and memtest86+ and it found that the very first byte is bad. :( :sigh: Sometimes it works, sometimes it don't. What is stored in that first byte? If it is nothing important or is used to shadow the bios or something then will it be safe to leave it in? What are your thoughts?
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I received my order of 2gb of notebook memory yesterday. It is the Corsair Value Select series. I ran memtest86 and memtest86+ and it found that the very first byte is bad. :( :sigh: Sometimes it works, sometimes it don't. What is stored in that first byte? If it is nothing important or is used to shadow the bios or something then will it be safe to leave it in? What are your thoughts?
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It's dead on arrival. Return it to the supplier. Any bad bits reported can be an indicator of bits that will fail intermittently at other points. It's toast, get a refund or replacement.
Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
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I received my order of 2gb of notebook memory yesterday. It is the Corsair Value Select series. I ran memtest86 and memtest86+ and it found that the very first byte is bad. :( :sigh: Sometimes it works, sometimes it don't. What is stored in that first byte? If it is nothing important or is used to shadow the bios or something then will it be safe to leave it in? What are your thoughts?
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As Mike said, it's DOA. The supplier should replace it right away (at least I think so. It works that way, here).
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I received my order of 2gb of notebook memory yesterday. It is the Corsair Value Select series. I ran memtest86 and memtest86+ and it found that the very first byte is bad. :( :sigh: Sometimes it works, sometimes it don't. What is stored in that first byte? If it is nothing important or is used to shadow the bios or something then will it be safe to leave it in? What are your thoughts?
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Provided it is in the socket correctly then it arrived bad. ESD damage would wipe it out completely, not give intermittent results. The BIOS will read the speed settings from the DIMM and set timings automatically. Elaine :rose: