RAM Issues

[Ghetto Oracle]

Okay, a month ago I got a new rig from Newegg, custom built of course. I order the Value Select 2x512 mb RAM. I put the sticks in and everything worked great for 3 days. After that Battlefield 2 started freezing mid-game and would finally restart without any input from me. After a day of the restarts during BF2 the PC would start up and instead gave me a beeping noise. I took out each RAM stick individually and 1 of them would allow the system to boot and the other wouldn't let it start up. I tried the stick that wouldn't allow startup in every slot and none will work, and I've tried the other stick in every slot and it works like a charm. Do you think that other stick was just bad? And is possible for a stick to work okay for a day or so then die on you, hence the restarting problems?

Thanks a lot for any help, it is greatly appreciated.

 

[Atheus]

Sounds like a faulty stick to me... have you run memtest86 with both sticks in?

If it is dead it was probably dead from the factory (unless you think you might have fried it with static or something) so RMA it.

 

[Ghetto Oracle]

Originally posted by: Atheus
Sounds like a faulty stick to me... have you run memtest86 with both sticks in?

If it is dead it was probably dead from the factory (unless you think you might have fried it with static or something) so RMA it.

Nope it worked for some time (3 days). Not sure what could have fried it. But let me get this straight, if one good stick works in all for DIMMs then it isn't a Mobo problem that screwed up the other RAM?

 

[Atheus]

Originally posted by: Ghetto Oracle

Originally posted by: Atheus
Sounds like a faulty stick to me... have you run memtest86 with both sticks in?

If it is dead it was probably dead from the factory (unless you think you might have fried it with static or something) so RMA it.

Nope it worked for some time (3 days). Not sure what could have fried it. But let me get this straight, if one good stick works in all for DIMMs then it isn't a Mobo problem that screwed up the other RAM?

Correct.

Assuming you meant to say "if one good stick works in all four slots then it isn't a Mobo problem"... DIMM is Dual Inline Memory Module and refers to the stick.

 

[Ghetto Oracle]

I meant DIMM slots

I just want to know how the first stick got fried

 

[Ghetto Oracle]

Is it possible it could have been unstable, hence the restarting, and then after enough instability it simply fried out and stopped working?

 

[Ghetto Oracle]

Montag I see you replying to a lot Can you see what you think about this issue?

 

[montag451]

Yeah- I usually keep quiet if someone else has posted what I think.

Atheus may be right - if the dodgy stick doesn't work in any slot, AND, the good stick works in every slot, then the dodgy stick is dodgy.
If you want proof,
Download and run memtest32 for both sticks, one at a time. Do it overnite each time.

Please post back with the results.