Ram disappears without warnings but appears when reseat, is this reliable?

[Yongtjunkit]

Hi, I was wondering if the Ram disappears without warnings(no beeps, doesn't show up in windows, memtest86 at all) but appears when reseat on the motherboard, is it reliable?

 

specs:

dell inspiron 580(prebuilt specs , no upgrades done to it so far)

4gb ram (2x2gb)

1tb hdd

windows 10

Nvidia GeForce gt220

 

[givingtnt]

11 minutes ago, Yongtjunkit said:

Hi, I was wondering if the Ram disappears without warnings(no beeps, doesn't show up in windows, memtest86 at all) but appears when reseat on the motherboard, is it reliable?

 

specs:

dell inspiron 580(prebuilt specs , no upgrades done to it so far)

4gb ram (2x2gb)

1tb hdd

windows 10

Nvidia GeForce gt220

 

is it both sticks ?
have you tried single sticks ?
different slots ? (if there's just 2, swap them ?)
can you update the bios ? (probably)

[Yongtjunkit]

8 minutes ago, givingtnt said:

is it both sticks ?
have you tried single sticks ?
different slots ? (if there's just 2, swap them ?)
can you update the bios ? (probably)

Reseating the both 2gb ram stick on the same slot fixes the problem. But since this is a pre-built from Dell it's weird for it disappear from the computer till it's reseated.

 

-It's not both sticks since only 1 of the stick shows up in windows/memtest86

- each stick, pc post correctly 

- didn't try different slot

- swap side of the both ram fixes this issue.

- dell bios update software(on their website) is sort of a disaster 

[givingtnt]

40 minutes ago, Yongtjunkit said:

Reseating the both 2gb ram stick on the same slot fixes the problem. But since this is a pre-built from Dell it's weird for it disappear from the computer till it's reseated.

 

-It's not both sticks since only 1 of the stick shows up in windows/memtest86

- each stick, pc post correctly 

- didn't try different slot

- swap side of the both ram fixes this issue.

- dell bios update software(on their website) is sort of a disaster 

so, basiucally sweapping it fixed it ?
I guess thats fine for such an old setup.  if it happens again, you might need to do the bios update.

[Yongtjunkit]

58 minutes ago, givingtnt said:

so, basiucally sweapping it fixed it ?
I guess thats fine for such an old setup.  if it happens again, you might need to do the bios update.

Yup