Hi guys,
A few months ago, a power surge took out the majority of components on my PC - so I did a rebuild with new parts, but kept the same RAM, GFX card and one of my HDD's.
Anyway, I was previously running 1gb of PC3200 (1x stick of generic 512 and 1x stick of 512mb TwinMos) which worked fine, in single and dual channel modes.
Anyway, after the rebuild I put them both back in and noticed that every time the PC seemed to go under heavy load (like playing battlefield2, sometimes during CS 1.6 when there was lots going on, like multiple people on voice comms whilst I was in the middle of a shootout, then sometimes when viewing videos etc) my PC would lock-up totally, with whatever the speakers were playing simply juddering that tone repeatedly. The only way to get back to using the PC is to reboot.
Now, I ran memtest on both sticks and they both were fine, but when running the TwinMos on it's own, the crashes were more frequent. So I now run just the stick of 512mb generic stuff and the crashes aren't "so" bad...maybe one every couple of days.
Anyway, i'm thinking of getting some new RAM to sort the problem - but before I do, can anybody think of something i've perhaps missed which may mean not having to buy new RAM?
A few months ago, a power surge took out the majority of components on my PC - so I did a rebuild with new parts, but kept the same RAM, GFX card and one of my HDD's.
Anyway, I was previously running 1gb of PC3200 (1x stick of generic 512 and 1x stick of 512mb TwinMos) which worked fine, in single and dual channel modes.
Anyway, after the rebuild I put them both back in and noticed that every time the PC seemed to go under heavy load (like playing battlefield2, sometimes during CS 1.6 when there was lots going on, like multiple people on voice comms whilst I was in the middle of a shootout, then sometimes when viewing videos etc) my PC would lock-up totally, with whatever the speakers were playing simply juddering that tone repeatedly. The only way to get back to using the PC is to reboot.
Now, I ran memtest on both sticks and they both were fine, but when running the TwinMos on it's own, the crashes were more frequent. So I now run just the stick of 512mb generic stuff and the crashes aren't "so" bad...maybe one every couple of days.
Anyway, i'm thinking of getting some new RAM to sort the problem - but before I do, can anybody think of something i've perhaps missed which may mean not having to buy new RAM?