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Memory Leak problem

Crotchless Gorilla SuitCrotchless Gorilla Suit Registered User regular
edited February 2010 in Moe's Stupid Technology Tavern
So, I was getting a ton of memory leak errors on my newly built system. Basically every program was having trouble reading memory at command line blahblahblah and a lot of .dll's and .exe's were getting errors, as well.

Could this be caused by faulty RAM?

Windows 7 failed to startup after my last shutdown and is doing a repair scan. It says it detected a hardware problem. Any ideas?

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    ButtcleftButtcleft Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    sounds like bad ram, run memtest to be sure

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    Crotchless Gorilla SuitCrotchless Gorilla Suit Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Buttcleft wrote: »
    sounds like bad ram, run memtest to be sure

    I think that is what it is doing right now. Said, "hardware problem."

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    Crotchless Gorilla SuitCrotchless Gorilla Suit Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    OK, I ran memtest86 from a boot cd and it is showing a bunch of errors. Guess it's time for new RAM, right?

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    TethTeth __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2010
    I'd reseat it several times first just to see if it helps.

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    Crotchless Gorilla SuitCrotchless Gorilla Suit Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I took one stick out and reseated the other. Seems to be working fine, now, but I only have 2 gigs of RAM.

    I'll try and reseat the other one a few more times.

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    travathiantravathian Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Test one stick in one slot. If it passes, test that same stick in each slot to verify each slot is working properly. It could be a motherboard problem. If each slot passes then test the other memory sticks one by one to see if one of them is bad.

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