shiarua

Ok, so this computer Im going to talk about is my sig rig.

The motherboard revision is v1.1.

I recently had one stick of the Gskill HZ go bad on me, so I took out the kit to RMA it. (Ive already RMA'd both kits in my computer once. This is the second time one of them has died). Usually I find out if I have bad memory if I turn off my computer to do work on it and then turn it back on from a cold boot. It will then just power on and power off in a continuous cycle. I then take the RAM out and get it to boot with only the good RAM. Usually if the bad RAM is in it, it will either constantly boot loop or say its trying to recover the CMOS from backup, saying its corrupted.

Well, I was using my computer today with RAM I thought was "good" (memtest 4.0 for 5 passes no errors), but I went to restart my computer and it shut completely off and then turned back on. When it booted back up it gave me a CMOS bad checksum/corrupt error with a screen similar to this


No exactly that screen, it just wanted me to pick which bios profile to load.

Running memtest at the moment on the 2gb kit I thought was good. What do I blame here? The memory? The motherboard? I recently flashed the motherboard to the latest bios firmware (f12 I think).

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NoGuru

I would try and test ram and CPU with a few different programs.

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shiarua

I also should mention that sometimes the computer wont POST when its restarted, but it will still boot. (No single short beep for POST).

I dont know what this is all about.

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shiarua

Running a blend test using Everest Stability test (Stress CPU, FPU, cache, system memory).

My system seems to hang when I do a blend test of anything (prime95, etc). Is this an indication of anything?

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Try running memtest. It sounds like a memory problem to me.

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Well, here is what I did. Grabbed all 4 sticks of RAM (only 1 of which I thought to be bad). Tried them in 2 other computers. 1 out of the 4 sticks made the computer POST and boot into the OS. 1 stick there was no POST and no beep codes (Memtested this one in my main rig for 4 passes) in either of the two computer, yet it seems to run just fine in my main rig. The other 2 gave memory error POST codes.

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So you have some bad sticks. RMA or go for some new stuff "1066'.
If you go for some new stuff do it soon as prices on DDR2 are going up.

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Trying to get an RMA for a different kit of RAM from Gskill.. Unfortunately, they arent responding to my RMA request or on the Gskill forums atm.

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