Faulty Video Memory On Mobo

Infernum · 27 Mar 2011 at 14:10

Have a PC that is rebooting. Have narrowed it down to faulty video Ram (Onboard Graphics) PC Check 6 failed the Video RAM.
If I put in a PCI-E GFX card, will this remove the built in Video RAM from the equation? Like completely bypass it so the PC will not reboot anymore? Or is a new Mobo in order?

kiel367 · 27 Mar 2011 at 14:16

it is possible it could work fine with a gfx card bypassing the onboard, iv had a couple over the years the onboard wouldnt work on, so put a card in and it works, but iv had a few that were just beyond use and way too glitchy, i see a lot of strange problems with pc's in the pc repair shop i work in

Surveyor · 27 Mar 2011 at 14:38

Doesn't onboard graphics share your system RAM?

If there's a fault it must be with your memory sticks.

Infernum · 27 Mar 2011 at 15:01

Will have to replace Mobo, thanks for reply.
All I can tell now is that something on this mobo is broken and causing this

pikey367 said:
it is possible it could work fine with a gfx card bypassing the onboard, iv had a couple over the years the onboard wouldnt work on, so put a card in and it works, but iv had a few that were just beyond use and way too glitchy, i see a lot of strange problems with pc's in the pc repair shop i work in

Found a GFX card to test it with, but still get reboots.
Weird, now the Video RAM doesn't fail in pc check. But I got a base memory 640k failure message when trying to load PC check before.

Surveyor said:
Doesn't onboard graphics share your system RAM?

If there's a fault it must be with your memory sticks.

There is 14mb of built in video memory on this particular mobo.
Have tried using different sticks of RAM in different slots. (Ram taken from a working PC)

-Have tested RAM in PC check and get a quick FAILED message before PC reboots. Might be faulty RAM Banks aswell. (Have tested both RAM Banks with different memory)