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On Saturday 14 January 2006 17:27, Ryan Sims wrote: |
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> I just bought a 512M stick of Crucial ram to complement another 512M |
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> stick...suddenly I'm getting tons of crashes, reboots, failed |
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> compiles, etc. I removed the new stick, and all is well, now I'm |
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> trying just the new stick alone, see if perhaps it was the both |
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> together... |
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> Something odd I've noticed, however: the new stick takes longer |
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> during the BIOS memory check...i.e. the old stick (infineon, I |
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> believe) the numbers go by essentially instantaneously. The new |
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> stick, however, I watch them tick past for a good second (unless I hit |
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> ESC, of course) This is true if the two sticks are in together, or if |
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> only the new stick is in. Is this indicative of something? I'm |
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> already pretty convinced that it's a bad stick, but I wondered if |
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> anyone could shed further light for me. |
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> Ryan W Sims |
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If you got the Crucial stick from them, not second hand, it's very unlikely |
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it's bad- they test them at the factory- I've never gotten a bad stick from |
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them in many years of building computers. Does the Crucial stick by itself |
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cause the problems? |
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Have you tried changing which stick is in ram slot 1- that's the slot that |
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will control the memory HZ and timings. If they aren't compatible, you may |
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have problems. For example, if a faster pc3200 stick is in slot 1, and a |
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slower pc2700 stick in slot 2, you can have problems, as it will be forced to |
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try and run are a higher speed that it can handle. |
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I assume you have reset the sticks in the slots. What about overheating? What |
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about checking the ram timings in the bios. What about the power supply? |
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There's a lot of things that could cause this, but if your box boots and |
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runs normally for a short while, them problems start occurring, I'd suspect |
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overheating- maybe the second stick blocks airflow to the first stick- it's |
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unlikely, but who knows? Maybe you moved some ribbon cables around in the |
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case when you added the new stick, and disrupted air flow that way. |
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