Start up Issues

[h4yd3nMac]

I have had multiple perfect start ups and was thinking that everything was in perfect shape until today when I was not able to boot up until my third try. This is what popped up for the first 2 boots.




And here my components...
Gigabyte x79 UP5 MB
Intel 3930K CPU
Corsair Vengeance 1866Mhz RAM
EVGA GeForce 670 FTW graphics card
I'm running Mountain Lion 10.8.3

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

 

[beelzebozo]

You should run some tests on your system memory i.e., RAM.

 

[h4yd3nMac]

You should run some tests on your system memory i.e., RAM.

Would Memtest86 be something I should use? or are there other memory test utilities?

Thank you.

 

[beelzebozo]

Yes, Memtest.

 

[h4yd3nMac]

Yes, Memtest.

Thank you very much just ran it and got Multiple failures. Will be getting new RAM.

 

[aaron97]

If you can find which RAM stick is faulty, just pull it out and you can use your machine temporarily.

 

[h4yd3nMac]

If you can find which RAM stick is faulty, just pull it out and you can use your machine temporarily.

Whats the best way of going by to do that?

 

[aaron97]

Whats the best way of going by to do that?

If you dont want to mess around with it much. just pull out all your ram sticks except for one, if its stable your computer is perfectly usable until you have time to buy a new stick of ram. Most likely only one stick is actually bad.