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I recently built a computer and randomly got a couple blue screens. I've run memtest and one of the memory sticks consistently throws memtest errors, while the other does not.

The odd part is, memtest lists the following settings for my RAM:

RAM: 535 MHz DDR 107 / CAS 2.5-1-3-1 DDR1 128 bits

But my RAM is DDR3 1600?

Memtest also lists my cpu as AMD K8, even though it's K10.

I've probably going to RMA the ram stick, but I just wanted to see if anyone had any insight into the weird memtest stats.

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Is your motherboard on its latest BIOS update? That could be funky. – Randolph West Mar 10 '11 at 7:15
Yeah, that's the first thing I checked when I got the motherboard, it came with the latest BIOS already installed. – Brendan Abel Mar 10 '11 at 7:20
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Most likely memtest just hasn't be programmed to know about those newer items yet. – Keith Mar 10 '11 at 7:46
I guess my question is, does it matter that memtest isn't recognizing it correctly? Those values seem way off. I guess I'm just wondering if it would cause false memtest errors. – Brendan Abel Mar 10 '11 at 8:32
Memtest does give false errors, yes. Whether you're actually having issues because of RAM is therefore difficult to establish. It might be a faulty power supply, driver, or one of the other usual suspects. I don't envy you. – Randolph West Mar 10 '11 at 20:37
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