Quickly confirm something for me...

Tute · 9 Nov 2009 at 20:53

Hey memory lovers.

I got up this morning to be greeted with a PC that wouldn't boot. Everything spins up but there's no beeps, no video output, nothing.

From chopping and changing things around, i've found that my second RAM stick (G.Skill DDR2 NR-6400 2x2GB) causes the computer to refuse to boot when it's inserted. With the other stick, all is fine.

Is it fair to assume it's RMA time?

TIA.

derkaderka · 9 Nov 2009 at 20:57

Have you swapped the good ram around the other slots , to ensure the slots are fine ?

Tute · 9 Nov 2009 at 21:22

Yes. Works fine in all four slots.

Also I Prime95'd it with just the other stick, I only had time to give it 40 minutes but it was passing it fine.

Big.Wayne · 9 Nov 2009 at 22:03

If either stick prevents the PC from booting it sounds ******

I helped a mate just yesterday who installed Win7 Professional, after a day or so after installing it the PC wouldn't boot? Had a little look and removed one stick of his Ballistix Tracer DDR2-800 and everything worked fine? . . . Before I inserted the stick back I entered BIOS and set the vDimm to [2.1v], powered off, installed second stick, problem sorted?

Have you tried playing with the voltage? also there may be something wrong with the Northbridge or vNB? that sometimes goof on dual-channel if not getting enough volts . . .

Tute · 10 Nov 2009 at 00:42

I've not no, in the BIOS I just left it on Auto. It's been working fine for months on this board though, so I don't think that's the problem - surely i'd have come across a problem before?

I'm about 95% sure it's dead, I just wanted to be sure I was working along the right lines.

Oh well, time for an RMA.

Braka · 10 Nov 2009 at 21:23

Tute said:
I've not no, in the BIOS I just left it on Auto. It's been working fine for months on this board though, so I don't think that's the problem - surely i'd have come across a problem before?

I'm about 95% sure it's dead, I just wanted to be sure I was working along the right lines.

Oh well, time for an RMA.

atleast try the volt before RMA ;p nothing worse then getting something back
and them saying theres nothing wrong with it

HazardO · 12 Nov 2009 at 14:36

I've had sticks of ram that after months of faultless operation started to play up, and fixed it by slightly bumping up the voltage. It's worth a shot.