New Ram snaps crackles and pops...

[InvincibleFist]

I fried my three sticks of mushkin ram somehow yesterday - i was just rearranging my power cupply cords and then turned on the system and cmos errors and windows registry errors out the butt ensued. anyone know how this could have happened? I really touched nothing but the cords, but id id not remove the sticks while i was messing around..

Anyway the MAIN question I have is the new pc133 256mb xerox(says sisandra) cheap ram i got today down the road as a quick fix works but makes a lot of noise when being accessed. the mushkin was barely audible. is this just regular cheap ram sound or is there something wrong. it just makes that crackling noise whenever it goin' away at somethin' and an occasional high pitch little screech...also sissandra scores were 15% below their standard for my setup....

any suggestions would be really really appreciated

MSI pro2a
T-bird 750@1000
Maxtor 20gb
WD 13gb
Raid Fasttrak 2X20 Maxtor
SBlive
DVraptor
DSL modem
cheapo ram as stated

 

[esung]

You are saying there's noise came from RAM? There shouldn't be ANY sound associate with your RAM. Your MB might be bad, or the power.

 

[Aruba]

Carefully clean the female RAM slot on the M/B with Denatured alcohol and a Q-tip and clean the RAM mating connector itself with an eraser and the alcohol and a Q-tip. Let it dry and replace the Ram.

Let us know if this helps.

 

[Duvie]

Have you tested the crucial memory or be it the new ram on another board to make sure??? INteresting I have never heard anything like this...

 

[InvincibleFist]

I've put the crucial in and the noise is still there. Have not tried the alcohol solution. I have no idea if i fried something or what to cause the first set of ram to fritz outand now all this noise... i was wearing socks on a wood floor. would that do it? I'm pretty careful and i consider myself intermediate at my pc tech skills. The noise is the noise you hear when yeah memory does its thing, but louder and with little high pitch beeps when its going intensive. Norton utilities tested the crucial out okay if that's of any use? I got the mobo in mid-december, could i exchange you think? any ideas..i'm really stumped. and even with the crucial the speed is still a tad slow, not much, but enough (then again this is 256, before i had 320)....

ahh, the sweet pain of being a pc junkie

Fist

 

[Demon-Xanth]

RAM is supposed to be silent. ANY noise is a bad thing. A VERY bad thing.

 

[erikistired]

unplug your speakers and see if the noise goes away. there's no moving parts in ram, therefore no noise. maybe it's coming from your soundcard (i've seen it happen, interference or whatnot, plays thru the speakers) or maybe your hdd is chattering?

~erik