how to check which stick of ram is bad ?

[masterac]

after so many BSOD that i can't count, multiple error at boot, and the fact that they are becoming more regular, i thought to myself.....hold on, if my pc shutdown even before i get in windows, that mean something is bad somewhere on the board and not a driver or software ....even thow most of the bsod i get are something something :

-BAD DRIVER
-CPU ERROR
-KERNEL CRASH
-GPU ERROR
-GPU DRIVER ERROR


so yeah, i have been completly ignoring that maybe one of my stick is so bad that it can work for hours sometime, and sometime crash on crash.

lately when i was playing 2 different game it would either

for game 1,
close it and that would be the end of it, i just ended up back in windows and could launch it again or do other things and it would be fine.

for game 2,
game would freeze from time to time, but working, then after few hours of play, went to bed, 8 hours later try to play again then everytime it would freeze the whole pc.


so i took out all of my ram exept for 1 stick, and so fare, the only issue i had was a bit of lag in game 1 because of the complexicy of it, but no closing of any kind or crash

now after few hours, still nothing, computer doesn't show any bsod so i am going to try game 2 and see if it work

after that i will try the same procedure with another stick, then i will slowly puting them in all together

but i am sure there is a better way to test eah stick individualy.

so any idea ?


whats my ram ?
my ram is 4 stick of the same kit of 64 gb dd4 from gskill. rated 3600 mhz, but i nevered overclocked it.


thank you to anyone that will help me ending up months of suffering not knowing what waw wrong with it, i was almost ready to buy another kit, but at 900 euro for it, i wanted to be sure that i wasn't throwing money down the drain.

[ThrashZone]

Arne Saknussemm wrote:
Including yourself....that's one in total 😮

Hi,
I would normally say memtest86+ to be used I believe I also mentioned it originally too

I said that on ocn and @CptSpig said "I believe it was him it was a while back now" that memtest86 works better on ddr4
So whether it's true or not I don't know
I have a cd with memtest86+ if I ever need to use it 😉

[masterac]

so i got memtest running for the stick installed, 5 instance, 3 at 600 %, 1 at 800 % and 1 at 2700 %, do i need to test more to get at least 1000 % for the others ? i didn't have any blue screen since i passed on 1 stick.

game are working, some lag when there are cut scene but nothing close to freeze, i suppose its also because i only have 16gb right now.

so i switch it for another, do the same thing, until i get each one of them separatly ? or i can start going up now and use the pc with 32gb if the next stick doesn't bug out ?

[xeromist]

Depends what you want to test. If you want to know if any given stick is faulty then test them individually. If you want to start stressing the IMC then start adding more sticks.

And yes you can run smaller instances to better leverage the CPU. It should run faster meaning more coverage or less waiting for the same coverage.

[Cory29]

are you running at 3600 ? with xmp profile default on ? (not sure what not overclocked means, some people think that rated speeds are not overclocked with memory)
** the problems you say you are having sound like a clock issue *2933 /w xmp settings seems to be the magic default number without extreme tweaking
users who overclock past 2933 usually have 2 or less sticks in there system and have single rank ram - dual rank is much more touchy with amd in general

memtest has never found issues for me if its a clock issues
I have only had luck with AIDA64 (there is a free trial period) * I would run for 30 min my system would freeze random times between 2 - 15 min usually
even hitting cinebench over and over 10+times could work