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RAM going bad??

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LuDaCriS66

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I had an incident where while I was playing Aquanox, the system somehow rebooted itself. All I got was a continuous beeping and no loading of the OS. Well, when I finally got it to load Windows XP Home Edition, I checked System Properties and it said I had only 384mb!

One of my sticks of RAM has cut itself in half. Is it dying on me? I used DocMemory to test the module and it passed but it's still reporting itself as 128mb instead of 256mb.

Sometimes, I'm not able to boot the computer when I turn it on. It'll just give me the continuous beeping. By continuous beeping, I mean it'll beep for a second.. wait a second.. then beep again.. and on and on.

Yes, I was overclocking the system through the FSB. I had it on 145FSB and 2.7 voltage. It has worked fine until now. I've had this RAM for months now. The system was perfectly stable before playing Aquanox.

I have since underclocked my system back to it's default settings but I'm still getting the beeping.

What happened?

System Specs:
Epox 8KHA+ KT266a
Athlon XP 1700+ 1.47ghz
Crucial 512mb PC2100 DDR -- Two 256mb sticks
Gainward GF3 Ti200
 


<< Try running with just one DIMM. If they both work while alone, it could be the RAM socket. (but I doubt it) >>



Yep, I've tried that. One of them works fine. The other reports itself as 128. I didn't know half of it can just die. I mean, if it was the overclocking that killed it, you'd think it would kill the whole module instead of killing just half. Might as well since this module causes spontaneous reboots.
 
www.simmtester.com --- free memory testor. make the bootable disk on another computer or with the "good" DIMM installed. For one it could corrupt the floppy, two it could corrupt your HD and registry running with bad memory.
 
My computer started rebooting randomly two days ago.

Then it was fine for several hours before it started doing it again.

At first I thought it may be the power supply giving out, but on the umpteenth random reboot half my RAM disappeared!!

For where there was once 256Mb crucial on a single stick, now lies 128Mb. Never new half a stick could die like this.

I've ran memtest on the remaining 128Mb, and it's 100% fine.

Several people have reported this issue in various threads.
 
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