[OT] memtest errors on Gigabyte EG45M-DS2H

strawks strawks at yahoo.fr
Wed Jan 14 05:20:48 PST 2009


Hi all,

Sorry for posting it here since it is totally OT but since some of you 
have the same motherboard as mine maybe someone might be able to help me.

I have a Gigabyte EG45M-DS2H motherboard, E8400 Core 2 CPU and 2x1GB 
Kingston memory (KHX8500D2K2/2GN), BIOS settings are set to "load 
failsafe defaults".

I ran memtest86 2.11 and It reports strange errors :
  - only one module on DIMM 1, 2 or 3 -> no problem
  - only one DIMM on DIMM 4 -> "unexpected error - halting"
  - two modules on DIMM 1 & 2 (so single channel) -> no problem
  - two modules on DIMM 1 & 3 (dual channel) -> thousands of errors
  - two modules on DIMM 1 & 4 (dual) -> thousands of errors and 
"unexpected interrupt" or just freeze
  - two modules on DIMM 3 & 4 -> doesn't even boot (no POST)

Has anybody with this board experienced issues like this?
I suppose it's just faulty hardware but I don't know if this problem is 
caused by bad RAM or faulty memory controller or anything else (I don't 
have other hardware to do more tests). Any idea?

thanks.

-- 
regards,
strawks




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