RAM issue again ?

[Rohit Jackdaw]

Recently I faced a RAM failure and both stick of my 8GB kit were sent for RMA with the help of a nearby shop. They provided me a spare 4 GB stick for the meantime. The system was working fine with gaming and stuff for the past three weeks. Yesterday my RAM arrived back. I gave their RAM back and installed my two sticks. I reset CMOS. The system just freezes in BIOS splash screen or reaches a dos like place with showing CPU name and correct amount of memory. If I try to get into BIOS a cursor appears in a black screen but sometimes BIOS comes but just freezes. All the information displayed are correct but nothing works. I kept the PC idle for a few minutes and it booted into windows with the screen flashing. In windows I could see weird artifacts. In display properties it shows two monitor but I only have one. One generic monitor and then mine. I select mine and display is fine but still generic monitor is present as an option. I then re flashed BIOS. After re flash it asked me to restart and now back at the same issue. Then again after sometime it booted into windows and the extra monitor still not gone. Then I restarted PC. Same issue. I turned off PC and then turned back on. Now bios still inaccessible and after splash reaches an underscore blinking while fast endless beeps can be heard. It stays there. I turned off and on again but same issue. I tried changing slots and only with one stick. No luck. Earlier only one ram was dead before RMA. Now both are dead I guess. Just before installing my ram the system was working excellent. What to do now ?

[The Official Czex]

Recently I faced a RAM failure and both stick of my 8GB kit were sent for RMA with the help of a nearby shop. They provided me a spare 4 GB stick for the meantime. The system was working fine with gaming and stuff for the past three weeks. Yesterday my RAM arrived back. I gave their RAM back and installed my two sticks. I reset CMOS. The system just freezes in BIOS splash screen or reaches a dos like place with showing CPU name and correct amount of memory. If I try to get into BIOS a cursor appears in a black screen but sometimes BIOS comes but just freezes. All the information displayed are correct but nothing works. I kept the PC idle for a few minutes and it booted into windows with the screen flashing. In windows I could see weird artifacts. In display properties it shows two monitor but I only have one. One generic monitor and then mine. I select mine and display is fine but still generic monitor is present as an option. I then re flashed BIOS. After re flash it asked me to restart and now back at the same issue. Then again after sometime it booted into windows and the extra monitor still not gone. Then I restarted PC. Same issue. I turned off PC and then turned back on. Now bios still inaccessible and after splash reaches an underscore blinking while fast endless beeps can be heard. It stays there. I turned off and on again but same issue. I tried changing slots and only with one stick. No luck. Earlier only one ram was dead before RMA. Now both are dead I guess. Just before installing my ram the system was working excellent. What to do now ?

 

Maybe just return the RAM and get some more. There's clearly an incompatibility issue. I don't know where it is, but it's there.

[Rohit Jackdaw]

Maybe just return the RAM and get some more. There's clearly an incompatibility issue. I don't know where it is, but it's there.

But how ? Before the first RAM failure the system was working for the past 15 months. And also just before first RMA I tried the sticks in a friends PC and that PC also showed No POST. Maybe Corsair screwing me with a defect set of RAM or.....?

[You_are_a_cunt]

If the specs on your profile are accurate, I don't see any reason it shouldn't work, unless you actually have a motherboard problem. If you can get it to be stable try updating your BIOS. If that doesn't solve the problem, you might have a dying mobo (seeing as it's ASrock, that might just be what you have)

[arronleeds]

send it  back and buy ram from else where.

 

i personally dont buy the same item from a vendor if the first breaks, this is because i bought some astros from argos, they were broken out of the box and then the second pair broke after 2 months.

[The Official Czex]

But how ? Before the first RAM failure the system was working for the past 15 months. And also just before first RMA I tried the sticks in a friends PC and that PC also showed No POST. Maybe Corsair screwing me with a defect set of RAM or.....?

 

It's probably defective RAM if it worked on another PC.

[Rohit Jackdaw]

If the specs on your profile are accurate, I don't see any reason it shouldn't work, unless you actually have a motherboard problem. If you can get it to be stable try updating your BIOS. If that doesn't solve the problem, you might have a dying mobo (seeing as it's ASrock, that might just be what you have)

Before the first RAM RMA the board was sent thinking it was defective and it came back without any change then later found RAM to be defective. If board has problems how will it work with the CPU overclocked and under pretty heavy gaming load for he past three weeks till you kit came back. The system was working just a day before replacing my RAM. So if the system works tomorrow after getting back the shops ram then can I assume the RAM dead again ?

[Rohit Jackdaw]

send it  back and buy ram from else where.

 

i personally dont buy the same item from a vendor if the first breaks, this is because i bought some astros from argos, they were broken out of the box and then the second pair broke after 2 months.

I didn't bought for second time. I just RMAed it and got back new kit from them albeit with same issues

[Rohit Jackdaw]

It's probably defective RAM if it worked on another PC.

It didn't work on another PC and that's confirmed cuz otherwise how would the system work for three weeks if something else was wrong ? This is so frustrating

[k4p84]

You had two sticks, bad stuff happened, RMA'd it.

Got leant a single stick and all way good.

New RAM arrived, two sticks again, installed it and bad stuff happens.

 

Couple of ideas:

 

It is not compatible, MB manufacturers do give out compatibility listings though there is often no reason other RAM would not work.

 

A DIMM slot is failing hence two sticks gives issues but a single does not.

 

You need to manually set the RAM timings in the BIOS

[Rohit Jackdaw]

You had two sticks, bad stuff happened, RMA'd it.

Got leant a single stick and all way good.

New RAM arrived, two sticks again, installed it and bad stuff happens.

 

Couple of ideas:

 

It is not compatible, MB manufacturers do give out compatibility listings though there is often no reason other RAM would not work.

 

A DIMM slot is failing hence two sticks gives issues but a single does not.

 

You need to manually set the RAM timings in the BIOS

At first only one stick failed. After RMA both doesn't work. Before the first RMA both sticks were working for more than a year. So how can they be incompatible ? I tried in two other slots and still bad luck. At first I was sure cuz I tested them on friends pc before RMA. This time haven't tested in any other system

[k4p84]

The motherboard may just not like the RAM, unlikely if it is within the motherboards advertised spec but it is always best to mention it. 

 

Have you run an extended test with memtest ?

 

Have you installed the ram in the correct DIM slots for dual channel ? check out the MB manual.

 

More importantly have you set the timings manually in the BIOS ?

[Rohit Jackdaw]

The motherboard may just not like the RAM, unlikely if it is within the motherboards advertised spec but it is always best to mention it. 

 

Have you run an extended test with memtest ?

 

Have you installed the ram in the correct DIM slots for dual channel ? check out the MB manual.

 

More importantly have you set the timings manually in the BIOS ?

What are u talking about ? My computer freezes when getting into BIOS. I can't change anything. Usually mobo sets it at 1333mhz. No crashes before, I used to manually change when it used to work. I also can't run memtest. The system just repeatedly beeps.

[k4p84]

so have you looked up what the post beeps are telling you ?

[Rohit Jackdaw]

so have you looked up what the post beeps are telling you ?

The issue is fixed, I removed and re assembled system and now it works fine. Don't know what was the cause. Over locked CPU and put ram in correct speed and the system is pretty much in good condition. Tested the system for an hour and no issues. Thanks for the help