Hi, I was running Prime 95 on a 2600K and was getting FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.5, expected less than 0.4 Hardware failure detected. One of the workers stopped and in core temp the load reduced to 50% on one of the cores (normally 2 or 4 from what I recall). This was at stock speed of 3.4GHz with normal RAM timings. I read elsewhere that someone who had the above error more often than not discovered the memory was at fault so I ran Memtest86+ 4.20 on the memory and got an error on Test 2. I removed one of the modules and got no errors, switched out the other module and got the Test 2 error, tried in a different slot same Test 2 error. I then switched the module to a different PC running 1156 and an i3 540 and got the Test 2 error. I switched it back to my PC, loaded the Failsafe options in BIOS, saved, rebooted and run the test again getting the error again. Would this indicate that the memory module is faulty and needs to be returned for a replacement.
Memory Error
- Thread starter CmdrX3
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thestepster
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yes lol
Cheers, ok it probably sounds like a stupid question and judging by the reply I'll assume it was, but I've never used Memtest before so wasn't sure if there are acceptable amounts of error(kind of like the one or two dead pixels is acceptable thing with LCD monitors) or whether it meant it's banjaxxed, get rid of.
thestepster
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your memory isnt working so its duff and needs rma's no such rules like that regarding ram it will be sold doing the speed and timings that are said and if not u can send it back sayin its not properly described
