So, I'm not sure if there is correlation here but I thought I'd ask. A thunderstorm rolled by a week or so ago and flickered the power. I have my computer on a pretty nice surge protector though so I thought no worries and left it off till the storm passed. I go to turn it back on and .. just fans spin up and no bios. So I'm diagnosing and I pull out 1 stick of ram and it boots up. It won't boot up with just that other stick.
So one stick dead.. weird. I get it RMA'd through crucial and have it replaced quick enough. But while they were shipping it, the 1 stick that I thought was ok, was still being used to play some games. I kept crashing a few times while referencing memory errors. Sure enough mem test shows this stick is fubared. Looks like another RMA and another shipping charge.
During my diagnosis I pulled the CMOS battery to try and get it boot up and when I had 1 stick of ram off I left bios at default prior to that my RAM was not overclocked prior to this. had it running @667 with a slight overclock to the CPU.
Did the power flicker do this? My surge protector didn't even need to be reset. The rest of my system is fine I think. I can see one stick crapping out after awhile but now the other has problems.
This isn't the first time I've had to RMA this crucial kit either about a month after my build I was getting way to many mem test errors on complete default. (My Original kit was the 10th anniversary stuff, then replaced with regular ballistx which a CS rep said was the same stuff just different heat spreader).
So one stick dead.. weird. I get it RMA'd through crucial and have it replaced quick enough. But while they were shipping it, the 1 stick that I thought was ok, was still being used to play some games. I kept crashing a few times while referencing memory errors. Sure enough mem test shows this stick is fubared. Looks like another RMA and another shipping charge.
During my diagnosis I pulled the CMOS battery to try and get it boot up and when I had 1 stick of ram off I left bios at default prior to that my RAM was not overclocked prior to this. had it running @667 with a slight overclock to the CPU.
Did the power flicker do this? My surge protector didn't even need to be reset. The rest of my system is fine I think. I can see one stick crapping out after awhile but now the other has problems.
This isn't the first time I've had to RMA this crucial kit either about a month after my build I was getting way to many mem test errors on complete default. (My Original kit was the 10th anniversary stuff, then replaced with regular ballistx which a CS rep said was the same stuff just different heat spreader).
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