Zombie Ballistix.

just Scott · 20 Jun 2007 at 23:27

Well my Crucial Ballistix PC5300 died last week so I used my old AMD stuff. I couldn't boot at all with either of them in, i'd just get one long continuous beep then it would shut down.

Anyway, my OcUK RAM arrived and I installed the new mobo/cpu again. As I was about to turn it on again, I just though, why not try the dead RAM again, may aswell try. Installed one stick of the dead Crucial, and it booted fine. Turned the computer back off, installed the other one, booted fine too. So now I'm running 2x512mb OcUK PC6400 RAM and 2x512mb supposedly dead Ballistix RAM. Weird.

Is it normal for RAM to play dead like that? Maybe it wasn't even the RAM in the first place that died.

Also: I'm getting realy poor performance from this 2gb of RAM. On a fresh XP install, it takes like 8 seconds to just load up Firefox, and like 4 seconds to load up something when I choose it from the Start menu.

ergonomics · 21 Jun 2007 at 10:10

perhaps your cpu is throttling maybe.and i have some problems with ram playing up as well.

i have a 512mb stick that refuses to work with anything, but on its own its fine. still completely borked, as 512mb isnt enough these days

Teaf · 21 Jun 2007 at 10:36

H2F Scott said:
Is it normal for RAM to play dead like that? Maybe it wasn't even the RAM in the first place that died.

Someone else reported in a Ballistix thread that his RAM died, then he tried it again a while later (days maybe?) and it worked fine.

netby · 21 Jun 2007 at 10:53

memtest86,mate,and you will see the errors coming up soon

just Scott · 21 Jun 2007 at 10:59

netby said:
memtest86,mate,and you will see the errors coming up soon

Yeah I just need to get my floppy drive working and I'll run it.

ergonomics said:
perhaps your cpu is throttling maybe.and i have some problems with ram playing up as well.

i have a 512mb stick that refuses to work with anything, but on its own its fine. still completely borked, as 512mb isnt enough these days

My CPU is an E6320 at 2.9GHz, I don't think that is the problem though. :[

edit: my computer just randomly rebooted. It's usually RAM that causes though right? >_<

fobose · 21 Jun 2007 at 11:23

H2F Scott said:
Yeah I just need to get my floppy drive working and I'll run it.

Dont need a floppy drive for it, download this;

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

It has memtest on it with lots of other useful apps too

just Scott · 21 Jun 2007 at 11:32

fobose said:
Dont need a floppy drive for it, download this;

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

It has memtest on it with lots of other useful apps too

That's a really nice app.

Thanks a lot mate.