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Is it possible to have two sticks of good ram, yet only have stable computer when using only one stick?

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gwlam12

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Is it possible to have two sticks of good ram, yet only have stable computer when using only one stick? As in...when both sticks are in there, problems occur. Yet, if you use one or the other, it's fine. I haven't tried it yet. I want to see what responses I get first. If it is possible, then I'm going to try it. If not, then I'm going to snap my stick or something for the fun of it.
 
One of the memory slots might be bad...

If you're not having a problem with either stick that would be your best bet.
 
Tried swapping their positions? Sometimes trivial things like that fixes problems even though there is no good explanation for it.
 
It's quite possible that adding the second stick of RAM will tax your power supply just enough to make it unstable.
Memory sticks are power hogs.

Load up a motherboard monitor and watch the fluctuation of your 3 power rails when using one stick. If by chance this is the problem they will vary quite a bit as the power requirements are already close to max if the second stick is causing the problem.

 
I've seen where some mobos just don't like more than one stick, you get errors when using two. I've used one and the other alone and they both worked fine, and it didn't matter which slots were being used so I would say yes, you can have two good sticks and not be able to use them in some mobos at the same time. Sometimes there's no really good explanation for it.
 
It could also be that win9x/Me >512meg memory issue. What OS and how much ram we talking about? There is some *.ini trick. Let us know.
 


<< It could also be that win9x/Me >512meg memory issue. What OS and how much ram we talking about? There is some *.ini trick. Let us know. >>


That's just that Windows will be slower, but not unstable.

Will EITHER one of the memory simms work? Then it's either the MoBo or really a power problem - although the latter seems rather unlikely.
 
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