Help please

WZ00 · 18 Jul 2014 at 21:19

Hi. Pc had some problems with the ssd not booting. It would work fine and then come up with no such partition found, grub rescue. I've had to fix the boot with the windows 8.1 disk a few times. The last time I did it worked fine for a while but now it just wont boot up with both memory sticks installed. Tried them in different slots and the odd time it would work until I reboot then its back to not booting. Works fine though with one of the memory sticks. I also tried booting with the other stick alone and it doesn't boot, now what?

The pc
Gigabyte gaming 5
i7 4790k (stock cooler, not over clocked)
TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C10 2400MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit
r9 290 sapphire tri x
ssd crucial mx100 256gb
Windows 8.1
ocuk dvd drive - (sounds like a tractor

)
evga super nova g2 850w

RJC · 18 Jul 2014 at 21:45

have a check if your running the latest BIOS.

The other option which can cause memory issues bar having a faulty stick is bent pins in the socket. Can you test the memory in another machine?

If not might it might be worth having having a quick socket check

WZ00 · 18 Jul 2014 at 22:06

I cant test in another machine. Bios is up to date and tried clearing cmos also. Tried the stick that works in each of the sockets and it works in each one.

RJC · 18 Jul 2014 at 22:46

Ah, you might have a faulty memory stick, if one world in both slots and not the other then I would look at RMA the memory.

russell664 · 19 Jul 2014 at 00:06

If you can get it booting with either stick, try to do a memory test on each of them, one at a time, to be sure?

WZ00 · 19 Jul 2014 at 00:16

russell664 said:
If you can get it booting with either stick, try to do a memory test on each of them, one at a time, to be sure?

It only boots with the one stick. So I cant test the suspected faulty one.

wazza300 · 19 Jul 2014 at 00:37

what you need to do is test each stick in a known working ram slot

if like you say it boots with the one stick yet wont with the other stick (in the same booting slot)

then you need to rma the ram as one stick is dead or faulty

WZ00 · 19 Jul 2014 at 17:42

Update.

not the memory doh!

It failed to boot again but this time with the good stick of RAM. Took it out and tried another slot and it worked. Managed to do a memtest on it and its fine. That led me to think its not the RAM. Initially when I put the pc together I did update the bios using gigabytes @BIOS. Re-flashed the motherboard using usb this time. Everything seems to work fine. Put the other memory stick in and thats working too. Currently doing memtest on them to be sure but its looking good.