James.Warren Posted December 12, 2004 Share Posted December 12, 2004 Last month, my system starting behaving strangely. Sometimes, the system would power up, but only display a blank screen. Sometimes it would boot Windows (Windows XP Profession w/ SP2), but reboot at random times. After a while, the system refused to boot at all, all it would do is beep with the BIOS memory error code. My system configuration was as follows and has not changed in nearly a year: Tyan Tiger MP S2460 2x AMD Athlon MP 1600+ Corsair 256MB PC2100 Registered ECC DDR RAM (CM72SD256R-2100/Y) Maxtor Diamond Max 120GB HD Lite-On DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive ATI Radeon 9700 Pro Creative Sound Blaster Audio PCI Realtek RTL8139 10/100 PCI NIC Antec mid-tower w/400 watt PSU At first I suspected CPU heat, but Motherboard Monitor had been reported CPU temperatures of about 41 degress Celcius under moderate load. I've tried booting the system bare-bones with nothing but the CPUs, RAM, and a generic PCI video card, I got the same issue: no display, error beep code. My motherboard has four RAM slots, I tried each, neither produced a different result. I re-assembled my system and placed an order for a new 256MB Registered DDR chip (Kingston Registered ECC). When I received the RAM, I immediately installed it, my system booted with no problems. Just to confirm my suspicion, I removed the new chip and installed the old one: the system refused to boot again. I purchased the Corsair RAM with my motherboard almost three years ago and it worked flawlessy until recently. To me, it's pretty obvious that it's bad RAM, however, I'd like to know if anyone has another opinion. Thanks for reading this, let me know what you think. James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James.Warren Posted December 13, 2004 Author Share Posted December 13, 2004 Last month, my system starting behaving strangely. Sometimes, the system would power up, but only display a blank screen. Sometimes it would boot Windows (Windows XP Profession w/ SP2), but reboot at random times. After a while, the system refused to boot at all, all it would do is beep with the BIOS memory error code. My system configuration was as follows and has not changed in nearly a year: Tyan Tiger MP S2460 2x AMD Athlon MP 1600+ Corsair 256MB PC2100 Registered ECC DDR RAM (CM72SD256R-2100/Y) Maxtor Diamond Max 120GB HD Lite-On DVD/CD-RW Combo Drive ATI Radeon 9700 Pro Creative Sound Blaster Audio PCI Realtek RTL8139 10/100 PCI NIC Antec mid-tower w/400 watt PSU At first I suspected CPU heat, but Motherboard Monitor had been reported CPU temperatures of about 41 degress Celcius under moderate load. I've tried booting the system bare-bones with nothing but the CPUs, RAM, and a generic PCI video card, I got the same issue: no display, error beep code. My motherboard has four RAM slots, I tried each, neither produced a different result. I re-assembled my system and placed an order for a new 256MB Registered DDR chip (Kingston Registered ECC). When I received the RAM, I immediately installed it, my system booted with no problems. Just to confirm my suspicion, I removed the new chip and installed the old one: the system refused to boot again. I purchased the Corsair RAM with my motherboard almost three years ago and it worked flawlessy until recently. To me, it's pretty obvious that it's bad RAM, however, I'd like to know if anyone has another opinion. Thanks for reading this, let me know what you think. James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted December 13, 2004 Corsair Employees Share Posted December 13, 2004 Please follow the link in my signature “I think I have a bad part!” and we will be happy to replace them or it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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