memtest 86 hanging

[GKenney]

Hi all,

I just finished building a new rig around a P4 3.2g and Asus p4c800-E
deluxe. I have 1 gig of king hyper x memory (2-3-2-6-1). I changed my bios
settings which were default at (2.5-4-4-8-?) to match my RAM. I have not
had any issues in Window XP with lock ups or in any programs (I'm still
loading and testing stuff).

I had another issue that I thought might be memory related (turned out it
was a MB feature that was working as it should) so I ran Memtest86 v3.0.
Memtest hung up every time I tried to run it. It would hang at different
points (I think I got all the way to test 7 once). No errors had shown up at
that point.

Could that be an issue with my changes in memory settings? Can changing the
memory settings actually make the system slower?

 

[Alan Guest]

Go into the bios and disable USB legacy support and then try to run Memtest.
I am curious what Hyper X are you using PC3200 or higher?

Alan

 

[GKenney]

The PC3200 matched pair. KHX3200AK2/1G. Tom's Hardware gave it a good
rating and used the P4C800-E Deluxe as the test board for their memory round
up. I figured this one was safe.

I'll disable the USB legacy support and try again.

Thanks

 

[Alan Guest]

Did it workfor you?

The PC3200 matched pair. KHX3200AK2/1G. Tom's Hardware gave it a good
rating and used the P4C800-E Deluxe as the test board for their memory round
up. I figured this one was safe.

I'll disable the USB legacy support and try again.

Thanks