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by traderearl

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I just recently upgraded the memory on my pentium 4 1.5 gig computer to 1gig of ram. I purchased 2 WINTEC AMPO 512MB 168-Pin SDRAM PC 133 Desktop Memory Model 3AMSD133-512M-R. The computer did a little better for about a month, recently the computer started having issues where it would just restart for no reason. The windows error reporting says two different things, either a driver conflict (which I don't see in system manager) or memory issues. I downloaded the microsoft memory tester and it showed no errors. When I ran the extended test it ran so slow that it only got to 9 out of 17 tests.

Upon on restart the following error message occured before windows booted.

Amount of system memory has changed. Memory write/read failure at 00D80004, read C7D837D8 expecting 37D837D8 memory address line failure at 003000C read 00CCCCCC expecting CCCCCCCC Decreasing available memory

I purchased the memory from newegg on 4/17 is it bad?

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by traderearl

So after 20 mins of testing the error column showed over 1600 errors so I stopped the test assuming that was enough justification that my memory is bad. One thing I noticed is it said that ecc was disabled, is it supposed to be with my system and this memory type?

by rob miners

at a time in each slot. It may be just one slot has gone bad. You may be able to get a bit more use out of it.

by traderearl

I will try that but they are both still returnable as well for exchange. I have put the 2 old memory sticks back in and the computer is working it is just very slow. Will let you know what happens.

by mjd420nova

This sounds like a bad memory card connector and it is either loose or the plastic base is cracked. Not an uncommon problem.

by traderearl

I don't think the connector is loose or cracked as I now have the 2 old memory sticks in and they are both working. It's just slow :)

by traderearl

I have just now finally got the new replaced memory back into this machine. It seem to run slower and take longer to start up then with the prior memory. How is this possible? I ran memtest on it and it shows no errors. I went from 1 stick of 128k and a 256k to having 2 sticks of 512k. Any suggestions anyone?

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