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December 2, 2010 at 12:19 pm #2640
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    I just installed 8GB of Muskin DDR3 1333 DIMMs and the first thing I did was run MemTest86.  The test hung at the 4% mark of the first test.  Either this motherboard is super picky about the memory you use or the board itself is bad.  Media Center is running fine for the moment with the new RAM but the real test will come on Sunday when I’m watching the football games.  Lots of live action seems to tax the system the most.  I’m just not sure if I’m willing to sit through another Sunday of consrtant hangups and reboots during the Ravens game.

    FWIW, the two 1GB sticks of Corsair memory I was using had been working flawlessly and they both passed MemTest86 with flying colors.  The bad news is that I kept getting low memory errors with Media Center running.  2GB is definitely insufficient for my setup.  Unfortunately, there’s no guarantee that getting another pair of 1GB DIMMs would work based on problems using DIMMs from a different production run.