EventID 1003 System Error, poss RAM? Prob with WMD tool?

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I have seen a few of the above Event IDs on a machine i am currently looking
at. It is also causing a number of application 'hangs' and terminations.

After looking at a few replies to similar problems i decided to test the
RAM. I found the Windows Memory Diagnostic and decided to give it a go. It
failed all the standard tests:

(Failures)
MATS+ 32
INVC 40
LRAND 1858
Stride6 616
WMATS+ 2686
WINVC 2891

Thinking this didn't seem too correct (the machine does actually run!) i
decided to try Memtest86. I only ran oone pass but all the tests succeeded.

Does anybody know what the reliability of the WMD tool is? I have run it a
few more times and seen some successful tests but it seems very random.

Is anyone aware of any other 'reliable' RAM tests?

Are the problems this machine is having likely to ba as a result of faulty
RAM?
 
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Guest

Update:

I found a BIOS update which might imporve 'Blue screen errors' and it did
seem to improve system performance for 1-2hr after the update.

I have just ran WMD from cold and it succeeded on the first pass and then
began to fail on the second pass of Stride6.

It looks more likely to be a hardware failure. I might be wrong so any
replies are appreciated.
 
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