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All of these still seem to be related to memory schpew.

You'll need to identify if this is corruption on the HDD as a result of the faulty memory that was there before, if its a motherboard issue causing these problems, or if you have another bad stick of memory!

To start off, I'm afraid it's going to be another round of memtest again!

You can normally find the make and model of the motherboard on the front of the motherboard itself. Some manufacturers such as ASUS print theirs in big white letters on the front. Others on the edge. Some don't print theirs at all!

Interesting news,

Ran memtest with only the new RAM installed and I got the same error that I reported on page 2 of this thread. Here it is again:

Tst: 5
Pass: 5
Failing Address: 0000001bd50 - 0.6MB
Good: ffffffff
Bad: ffdfffff
Err-Bits: 00200000
Count: 1
Chan:

I'm not sure what to make of/do with the above information.

Another note: When I first ran memtest a few days ago, after it listed the error it kept on testing. But with today's test, it listed the error and stopped running after 5 hours.

Eh, are you absolutely sure your not using the same memory? That Failing address is identical. If this is the case, then try using different slots on the motherboard, otherwise you will be looking at a more serious problem with the motherboard itself.

I'm absolutely certain I'm using the new memory. Unless some magic gremlin transmorfed out of my furniture and switched the ValueRAM stickers on the Kingston sticks when I wasn't looking, I'm sure I'm testing the new RAM.

Here are the 3rd memtest results... After almost 9 hours of testing there are 2 errors (and memtest continues to run after detecting them):

Error 1***************
Tst: 5
Pass: 14
Failing Address: 0000001bd50 - 0.6MB
Good: ffffffff
Bad: fffdffff
Err-Bits: 00020000
Count: 1
Chan:


Error 2**********
Tst: 5
Pass: 14
Failing Address: 0000001bc90 - 0.6MB
Good: ffffffff
Bad: fffbffff
Err-Bits: 00040000
Count: 1
Chan:

Error 1 seems like the same error the last two times I reported it, but if you look closely - the "Bad" and "Err-Bits" are slightly different this time.

Anyhow, I'm going to continue to test the new RAM, but now in the other slot.

Ok, so there were 2 errors found in the 2nd (final/last) slot with the new RAM.

Error 1 (same as on the 2nd and 3rd pages):
Tst: 5
Pass: 0
Failing Address: 0000001bd50 - 0.6MB
Good: ffffffff
Bad: ffdfffff
Err-Bits: 00200000
Count: 1
Chan:

Error 2 (notice the amount of MB's in the failing address):
Tst: 7
Pass: 1
Failing Address: 0000e1000e0 - 225.0MB
Good: 8b6d056d
Bad: 8b6f056d
Err-Bits: 00020000
Count: 1
Chan:

Hope the gremlin comment wasn't taken the wrong way.

lol, yep, I believe the amount of mb's is definately the key here, since no matter what slot you put the memory in, it would have failed at 0.6mb. Also, the fact that you are having identical failing addresses between two different RAM sticks is extreemly unlikely. Furthermore, Kingston memory is very well made, and the best manufacturer of memory in my book. They come with a lifetime warranty. I think at this point we can rule out memory as the cause to your problems, but unfortunately, this means your motherboard.

Marked as answered (for now) Schpew.