2011-01-04, 07:18 PM
johnsonx42 Wrote:sometimes bad ram will give you random problems all over the place, and other times you'll get very specific errors that you might never guess were memory related. I once had a client who was getting garbled output from his printer, and only on the one printer attached to his machine - he could print to other printers on the network just fine. everything else on the pc was fine - no crashes or other weirdness. so naturally I spent quite some time updating/uninstalling/reinstalling drivers, replaced the printer cable, finally had him buy a new printer, and the problem kept coming back. finally while messing with the drivers on the new printer, I got a weird error from the installer that indicated data corruption, so I ran memtest86+. the first few simple tests completed no problem, then finally one of the walking-bit tests turned up the errors.
Exactly. It just might be a case of timing related memory error, or spesific patterns failing.
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