[garyoa1]

Ok guys, riddle me this. New build. Vista business. Now, there is NO OC'ing involved. Just running stock

Gigabyte x48-dq6 - 4g crucial ballistix rated at 5 5 5 15. Which the bios is reading at 5 7 7 24 at default settings. (which memtest is also reading at 5 7 7 24) with a Q6700 quad.

Ran fine for about 3 weeks. Then BSOD started. Got virtually every BSOD error known to mankind over a few days and finally it was dead in the water.
Ok, dumped vista, swapped the HD out, got back to xp pro.
Withinn 3 days... same thing. Corrupted data.

FWIW, coretest shows idle at 48c. A bit hot but not near critical.

Ran memtest86+ .... instantly errors up the ying yang right from the get go with the 4 sticks installed. Pulled ram, started memtest with one stick. 8 passes... no errors. Switched modules... again, no errors. Rather than going thru all of the ram, just reinstalled xp with 2 gig. Few days... data corruption again.
Running memtest for 12 hours with the 2 gig... no errors. Replaced the 2 gig with the other 2 gig... overnight... no errors.

Data corruption continues.

Now, question is, since I got a truckload of errors instantly with the 4g installed and none with the two sticks, is it possible I have some bad memory slots, therefore bad Mobo? I have the two sticks in banks 0 and 2. Didn't try them in banks 1 and 3.
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