Gigabyte 1156 Mobo problem

Gazza123

Gazza123

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I recently had problems with a H55 S2H. The board wouldn't read from one of the memory slots, more specifically the closest to the CPU socket. I sent this to be tested and it came back with no fault found. Is it possible It's the CPU memory controller thats messed up or maybe something else. Any help is much appreciated. :D
 
Is it possible? Yes it is.

But there are other things that it could be as well.

Could you run a full set of memtest just to make sure that a) all your ram is in perfect condition, and
b) that all the slots are also in perfect condition.

Here is how you go about it.

Download memtest and burn the iso to a disc.
Select boot from CD/DVD in bios.
Put one stick of ram in a slot.
Power up and select 1 when the options for memtest are shown.

It really does not matter which stick you start with. The purpose here is to find a slot that is working perfectly. So if the memtest fails don't stress just move the ram stick to another slot. Or if you want select another stick of ram and pop it into the same slot to test.

Basically we need to find out through a process of elimination what is causing the one slot not to work for you.

BTW Gigabyte are rather good (assuming it was there technicians that did the motherboard testing) at sorting stuff and do not as a rule give any hassle if the board is problematic.
 
Probably a stupid question, but did you check multiple ram-sticks in that slot?

The other thing to check would be the memory compatibility chart on gigabytes website. It's possible you bought ram-sticks that the mobo just doesn't like. My gigabyte board had "improved memory compatibility" listed in one of the bios updates, so it's possible your problem could be fixed with a bios update.
 
jimbob27 said:
It's possible you bought ram-sticks that the mobo just doesn't like. My gigabyte board had "improved memory compatibility" listed in one of the bios updates, so it's possible your problem could be fixed with a bios update.
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Now that is great advice.
 
The PC was working for a fair few months before it decided not to anymore. It booted when i took 1 ram stick out (the closest to the socket) and when i swapped the sticks to check it wasn't the ram the both booted fine and ran under load. Both sticks wouldn't work in the broken slot with both slots loaded and with just the single slot loaded. I don't have the MoBo back yet but i suppose i could do the MemTest when i have it back.
 
Yeah - I mean you have nothing to loose. I have had mem slots not work and when I looked closely there was some gunk that was in the slot blocking a connector or causing some kind of short. Now when I get a board in the first thing I do is give it a healthy blow with some compressed air. We have a little 50l unit just for that purpose, cleaning out the dust that accumulates on peoples PC's.

But I guess if they tested it, then it should work now. That is the logical expectation I would say. So hold thumbs mate.
 
Just use one stick when you test with memset.

There is no need to do more than one.
 
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