As some of you may remember, I have had some problems with one stick of my memory over the past seven months or so. For those of you that did not read those threads, here are the cliffs:
- Used to have one 512 MB PNY stick and one 512 MB Kingmax stick
- Replaced both with the Corsair memory in my sig
- A few times I experienced issues where things would get very slow and lockup; this only happened a few times though over the course of last July until today.
- Whenever this would happen, I would reboot, and everything, especially bootup, would be incredibly slow. Myself and people here on the forums attributed this problem to my memory. However, simply removing the one stick that produced Memtest errors and then putting it back in fixed the problem.
- I eventually decided that I'd RMA both sticks since they are a pair and have a lifetime warranty. However, since it mostly runs fine, and since I'll be upgrading in a couple months anyway, I decided to wait to do it until I do the upgrade.
So that's before. Fast forward to today. I was copying some multi-GB files and it froze when I went to open IE. I rebooted, and it stayed on the first screen of bootup for well over a minute, and then hung at "Verifying DMI Pool Data" for what seemed like forever. So, I did what I did before: removed the second stick. Upon rebooting, instead of fixing it like in the past, it hung at "Detecting IDE devices." Completely froze. It couldn't get any farther than counting the memory and CPU speed. This was something I had never seen before. It would happen with either stick in or with both sticks in. So I cleared CMOS, and put in just the stick that produces no Memtest errors, and booted it up. It booted okay, detected the IDE devices and all that, and proceeded to the desktop at a normal speed. However, I knew that the memory was set to SPD, which is 200 MHz, and the CPU was at stock, which is 133 MHz, and so I expected instability. So I rebooted and put the CPU back to 200x20 - no POST. Put the CPU at stock, 133x13, and the memory frequency at 100% - no POST. Now no matter what setting I try, it won't POST.
First question, would you agree the original problem (freezing, being extremely slow upon reboot) was due to the memory? Or possibly something else?
Second question, why do you think removing the second stick when it was slow caused it to freeze at "Detecting IDE devices"?
Third question, after resetting CMOS fixed the problem, what do you think is causing it to not POST now? Simply my board being picky? Or the memory somehow? Or what?
- Used to have one 512 MB PNY stick and one 512 MB Kingmax stick
- Replaced both with the Corsair memory in my sig
- A few times I experienced issues where things would get very slow and lockup; this only happened a few times though over the course of last July until today.
- Whenever this would happen, I would reboot, and everything, especially bootup, would be incredibly slow. Myself and people here on the forums attributed this problem to my memory. However, simply removing the one stick that produced Memtest errors and then putting it back in fixed the problem.
- I eventually decided that I'd RMA both sticks since they are a pair and have a lifetime warranty. However, since it mostly runs fine, and since I'll be upgrading in a couple months anyway, I decided to wait to do it until I do the upgrade.
So that's before. Fast forward to today. I was copying some multi-GB files and it froze when I went to open IE. I rebooted, and it stayed on the first screen of bootup for well over a minute, and then hung at "Verifying DMI Pool Data" for what seemed like forever. So, I did what I did before: removed the second stick. Upon rebooting, instead of fixing it like in the past, it hung at "Detecting IDE devices." Completely froze. It couldn't get any farther than counting the memory and CPU speed. This was something I had never seen before. It would happen with either stick in or with both sticks in. So I cleared CMOS, and put in just the stick that produces no Memtest errors, and booted it up. It booted okay, detected the IDE devices and all that, and proceeded to the desktop at a normal speed. However, I knew that the memory was set to SPD, which is 200 MHz, and the CPU was at stock, which is 133 MHz, and so I expected instability. So I rebooted and put the CPU back to 200x20 - no POST. Put the CPU at stock, 133x13, and the memory frequency at 100% - no POST. Now no matter what setting I try, it won't POST.
First question, would you agree the original problem (freezing, being extremely slow upon reboot) was due to the memory? Or possibly something else?
Second question, why do you think removing the second stick when it was slow caused it to freeze at "Detecting IDE devices"?
Third question, after resetting CMOS fixed the problem, what do you think is causing it to not POST now? Simply my board being picky? Or the memory somehow? Or what?
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