Greetings,
I'm running a Duron 900 on an Asus A7A266, and I have 3 sticks of 128 MB PC133 SDRAM in it at the moment.
In the last few weeks there have been a number of cases of sudden black screens that forced ye olde reset button, then recently they stopped and I noticed that on startup it is only counting up to 256 MB of memory. "Ah ha!" says I, "one of my memory sticks has been going bad, now that it has given up the ghost the instability is gone, but I'm short some memory."
So I went and hit crucial for 2 sticks of 256 MB PC2100 DDR memory, which I will be installing this weekend.
Now, I have another box I am slowly building from scraps that I plan to use the other two sticks in, question is, which one of the three is bad? I don't see any severe physical signs, I'm looking for the shortest sweetest KISS principle diagnostic to figure out the dead one. Whether this is a matter of a dowloadable diagnostic program or the like, I don't want to spend hours swapping memory in and out with process of elimination.
Thoughts?
KF
I'm running a Duron 900 on an Asus A7A266, and I have 3 sticks of 128 MB PC133 SDRAM in it at the moment.
In the last few weeks there have been a number of cases of sudden black screens that forced ye olde reset button, then recently they stopped and I noticed that on startup it is only counting up to 256 MB of memory. "Ah ha!" says I, "one of my memory sticks has been going bad, now that it has given up the ghost the instability is gone, but I'm short some memory."
So I went and hit crucial for 2 sticks of 256 MB PC2100 DDR memory, which I will be installing this weekend.
Now, I have another box I am slowly building from scraps that I plan to use the other two sticks in, question is, which one of the three is bad? I don't see any severe physical signs, I'm looking for the shortest sweetest KISS principle diagnostic to figure out the dead one. Whether this is a matter of a dowloadable diagnostic program or the like, I don't want to spend hours swapping memory in and out with process of elimination.
Thoughts?
KF
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