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2008-07-19, 7:30 PM #1
I've got 2 sticks of RAM, identical. I've got motherboard. I test one stick with memtest, and it fails in 1 and 3, passes 2 and 4. The other stick fails every slot. Would I be correct in thinking this is a motherboard problem?

Sorry, I already asked Galf and am slightly inebriated, so a second opinion would be aweessommeeee.
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2008-07-19, 8:12 PM #2
There must be something wrong with your sticks too if one is passing sometimes and the other never.
2008-07-19, 10:51 PM #3
Best bet is to find two other sticks [surely any good geek has a dozen or so about] and check them against those slots. Basic PD matrix :p
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2008-07-20, 7:14 AM #4
I would guess motherboard- are you using the most conservative timing settings in BIOS? I would also experiment with increasing (or decreasing?) the dram voltage.
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2008-07-20, 7:19 AM #5
I'm having difficult understanding. You've tested both memory sticks in both memory sockets?
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2008-07-20, 7:36 AM #6
Originally posted by Mentat:
I'm having difficult understanding. You've tested both memory sticks in both memory sockets?


Stick 1) Fails in Slot 1/3. Passes in Slot 2/4.

Stick 2) Fails in all slots.
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2008-07-20, 7:36 AM #7
Tested both memory sticks and there are 4 slots. Memory Stick A tests fine in slots 2 and 4, but fails in 1 and 3. The other stick fails in all the slots.

I'm gonna get a new motherboard for sure, but I'm gonna pick up 2GB of RAM regardless (Newegg has 2GB of Corsair for like 35 bucks after rebate).
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2008-07-20, 7:43 AM #8
Slotting in memory sticks while drunk is probably the root cause of failure.
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2008-07-20, 1:01 PM #9
Originally posted by Mort-Hog:
Slotting in memory sticks while drunk is probably the root cause of failure.

I've killed a motherboard this way. I don't know what the hell I did, but all of a sudden there was smoke. I pulled it out and four or five of the gold contacts on the stick were fused to the socket. It wouldn't POST after that.
2008-07-20, 1:31 PM #10
Nah, I wasn't drunk while doing this. The machine was quite old. We are selling it, just making sure everything worked (which it didn't).

I wasn't drunk at that time either, only high as a kite
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2008-07-20, 2:54 PM #11
I once installed a memory stick backward. I caught it just in time because I noticed it was bowing up in the middle.
2008-07-21, 6:20 AM #12
maybe motherboard, maybe ram.

sometimes bad ram doesnt fail every pass, i usually let it run 5 passes.
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2008-07-21, 7:30 AM #13
Originally posted by Obi_Kwiet:
I once installed a memory stick backward. I caught it just in time because I noticed it was bowing up in the middle.


I did that once too, the stick got really hot and melted the sticker on it.
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2008-07-26, 10:43 AM #14
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