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Need insight on RAM Failure

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NateSLC

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I have an Epox 8K7A with 2 sticks of 256MB DDR PC2100 Ram. I came home yesterday to a locked PC. When I rebooted, WinXP would only barely get to the logon screen before it rebooted (on both XP installations I have on this PC). I took out every piece of hardware, and finally found it was one stick of my RAM that was the culprit. I've had both sticks running stable as hell for over 6 months.

I'm wondering if anyone can give me some ideas as to if it's most likely a motherboard problem or just a bad stick of RAM. I would hate to buy another just to have the same thing happen.

Anyone care to share some experience?

Thanks,
Nate
 
try the stick you think is bad in the other slot, then try your good stick in the slotthe bad one was in
that should rule out a bad ram slot
also try the bad stick in another computer
 
I did try the suspect RAM alone in the other slot, and I got some beep codes and no boot. The RAM is definitely bad, but I'm kind of wary of putting in another piece of RAM in that slot. I had a different board that I found would over volt the CPU and after several months fried my T-Bird 850. Is there any way to check whether or not this motherboard is not playing nice with RAM?
 
I guess there is no good way to know, though I also have an Epox mobo (8k3a) and had ram problems recently myself.

In my case, I got lockups whilst running £D applications such as games, or when switching betwen resolutions frequently, or sunning 3D applications in the background. I had one pc2700 256 ram stick, and was advised to tune it down to 2100 in the bios, which I did. I haven't had any problems since then, thankfully, but this was little over a few weeks ago so it is too early to tell.

Offhand, the only way you can test wether its just bad luck or the mobo, is test a new stick in the slot where the other stick went bad, and make sure you buy the ram stick with a guarantee so you can exchange it if it does go bad.

Not much help at all, I am afraid, sorry for pointing out the obvious, 🙂
 
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