DRAM LED boot issue.

Antony101 · 9 Mar 2012 at 02:13

When I have my RAM in the Blue DIMMs on my motherboard I get the red DRAM LED and my PC doesn't boot, however putting them in the two black slots works fine, is my motherboard buggered?

wazza300 · 9 Mar 2012 at 02:16

usually points to either cpu heatsink too tight or bent cpu pin/pins

if its working fine in black slots then i wouldnt worry too much,did you test the blue slots one by one? to see whether its one or both slots that are faulty?

Antony101 · 9 Mar 2012 at 02:39

Nope didn't check that, I'm not happy with a 1 month old motherboard being faulty mind, I'll pop the panel off tomorrow and check the slots.

Antony101 · 9 Mar 2012 at 14:19

Strange, I took the ram out and put it back into the blue slots and it wouldn't boot again, so I tested them one at a time and it worked fine, I then tested both again and it worked. Pretty sure I put the ram in correctly but now it seems to be working. Look really dumb now.

wazza300 · 9 Mar 2012 at 16:39

either a poor contact or just one of those things,keep your eye on it though