sat Posted November 28, 2005 Share Posted November 28, 2005 Good day. My machine is about a year old, I put it together last September using components that I'd bought. Since then it's worked fine, but recently it started acting really weird - frequent system hangs, sudden reboots etc. At last, it refused to boot totally. It would just give me a long beep and stop at that. I had a pair of 512M PC3200 ValueSelect ram in. I removed them systematically, (among other things, while troubleshooting hardware), and found that when I removed one of the modules, the machine would start. When I put it back in, the machine refused to boot. So right now the module is out, the other 512 module is in, and I'm using the machine fine. I haven't had any hangups or reboots since I removed that RAM module. I think I can safely say that the module is faulty. What do I do from here? Best regards, Satyam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted November 28, 2005 Share Posted November 28, 2005 Try the system with JUST the "bad" stick in the slot the "good" stick is in, and leave the "good" stick out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sat Posted November 29, 2005 Author Share Posted November 29, 2005 OK, so I tried what you suggested. When I put the bad stick in the slot that the good stick was in, the machine didn't boot. The good stick was out of the machine. When I tried to power on, the power and hard disk leds came on and stayed on. The fans came on, too. There was no beep code, but there wasn't anything to the monitor either - it never came out of standby. I took the stick back out and put it back in the same slot, just to make sure it was seated properly. Still the same result. I put back in the good stick, and the machine started up no problem, and now I can reply to the thread. Thanks for your interest. Any ideas? Best regards, Satyam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 RMA time I'm guessing :) http://tsxpress.corsairmemory.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted November 29, 2005 Corsair Employee Share Posted November 29, 2005 Let's go ahead and replace this module set for you. Please follow the link in my signature, "I thin kI have a bad part, what do I do". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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