wombatman

Basically, many of my programs will quit with the "Blah blah blah encountered a problem and will now be closed." error. This includes RegCleaner, Firefox, Sisoft Sandra, and Half-Life 2. I suspect this has to do with the memory I got for Christmas. I got 2 512MB sticks of PC2700 made by KByte. Needless to say, since it was bought from Best Buy, I'm thinking that it can't handle even the mild (10%--3.2Ghz to 3.51Ghz) overclocking that I'm trying to do. CPU and motherboard temperatures are fine (never more than 54 or 55C), so I've eliminated that. The computer will boot up fine, and I can run programs for various amounts of time. I can even do stress tests (Sisoft Sandra, running SETI@home, Folding@home, Distributed.net client, and Prime95 all at once) fine, with only the occasional error mentioned above. This is more frustrating than anything else.

I should also mention that I have done memory stress testing through Sisoft Sandra and it will usually make it many runs through before a problem will come up (around 60+), but even this is not guaranteed. Would Memtest give me a more clear idea about this?

bendsley

Memtest will show you faults in the memory. If you're going to be overclocking your memory, I sure as hell would tell you not to use KByte.

Use Mushkin, crucial, etc..... something that is made better.

I worked as a PC Tech at BBY during college and this memory always gave us issues, so our techbench just exclusively used the Kingston Value line (since thats about the only other thing we sold at the time).

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wombatman

That's what I figured. Fortunately I have 2 512 sticks of Corsair Value RAM coming in that was supposed to be for my dad's computer. I'll just swap out the KByte for that. Should be here in a few days. Thanks again.