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DocMem Rebooting?

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Hey Guys,

Working on a clients computer and whenever I boot into DocMem, it will run for a few seconds then the PC will reboot.. Would this be a good sign that there is a bad stick of memmory? I sure hope not, because it's RamBus.. lol.. Just curious if anybody else has seen this..

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***edit*** I also just realized how hard this would be to determine "which" stick is bad as I don't have any and you have to run it in pairs.. No? Man this should be fun..

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Well.... Got it to run finally and it's failing shit left and right.. Damn this is sad.. It's gonna cost this client $200 for new memmory.. That's crappy I say! I'm off on the hunt for RAM..
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better then a whole pc atleast.

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Try MemTest86 instead:
http://www.memtest86.com/

DocMem is now too old. I've had good luck with memtest86.
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Also, I think you don't have to run it in pairs either. I heard you can get basicly a blank stick to put in there to be able to finish off the circuit, not sure, just what I read once in an article about RAMBus.
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I would also recommend Memtest86 over DocMemory. I've had situations where Docmemory would lockup or crash on systems with certain hardware configurations.
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