Bad ram stick?

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Tue Oct 01, 2002 5:25 am

Been having an intermittent problem with the 8k7a setup down below. Its refusing to boot up to windows once in a while and just displays a blank screen after the boot screen splash, or going blue screen while loading windows or just rebooting while running and either showing blank or blue screen.

I thought it was my display settings....Dell P1110........too high a refresh rate but noticed when I went to one stick of crucial 2100, that it was displaying only 250mb of ram!
When I tried two it would sometimes display 512, sometines 506!

Only two slots in the mb and I have the stick I think is not reporting right out right now and everything seems normal but is that symptomatic of bad ram? bad slot? or something else maybe.

Another thing on bootup it finds "another liteon dvd player" and gives it a different ID number in my computer...properties.

any help would be appreciated

ram looks physically fine.....crucial has always been great

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Tue Oct 01, 2002 8:01 am

If it works fine with one stick and not the other then you have to assume you have a bad stick.

Some other suggestions:

- If you're overclocking, don't and see if that helps.

- Try setting the ram settings in BIOS to their safe defaults.

- See if there's a BIOS update.

As for the DVD, does this happen when the bad stick is in, or does this happen all the time? Does it just redetect the DVD? I'm not sure what you mean.

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Tue Oct 01, 2002 12:49 pm

All the above was done. I also removed one stick for troubleshooting the system so no more problems and put second stick back in and put the side panel on, problems back! thought it might be some weird ground with the panel for a bit

I had updated the bios when I swapped in the 1800 from cak but everything is safe default so maybe it is a bad stick.

Will run that stick by itself later and call crucial if its the same. Always thought memory worked or didnt.

livin and learnin

thanks for the info

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Tue Oct 01, 2002 5:06 pm

Always thought memory worked or didnt.

Anything but. You can have a flaky stick that works fine in one computer, but doesn't work in another. It might work by itself, but not with another stick. It might work in one socket but not the other.

Pugsley · Post by **Pugsley** » Tue Oct 01, 2002 6:08 pm

yea.. i have a pair of 512 133 sitting here that i think are bad... my computer wont even reconize them, and anohter they will BSOD @ 133 but will work fine @ 100.