On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 19:12:26 -0000, Bob Eager wrote:

On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:22:46 +0000, John Rumm wrote:

On 12/01/2014 22:49, Uncle Peter wrote:
On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 11:52:03 -0000, John Williamson
wrote:

On 11/01/2014 19:32, Uncle Peter wrote:
On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 19:08:13 -0000, tony sayer
wrote:




M$ gets blamed for blue screens. 99% of them are due to faulty
memory.
Always run 3 passes of memtest on a new machine.

Most BSODs that I've had have turned out to be faulty hardware
drivers, mostly video card ones, and the others to badly written
programmes or HD corruption. I've never yet had one that could be
traced to faulty memory.

I've found brand new cheap memory to be faulty 10% of the time. And
decent memory to be faulty 3% of the time.


Which suggests that you are handling improperly and causing the failures
you observe (or attributing some other fault to memory)

I don't recall having any failure on new memory devices from a range of
manufacturers, after many hundreds of installs.

+1

That is the nature of stats.

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