Bad mobo or bad mem?

Discussion in 'CPU, Motherboards and Memory' started by abec, Oct 27, 2007.

  1. abec

    abec Geek Trainee

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    Ok heres the issue, Im running an A8N32-SLI Deluxe w/ 2x 512 3200 DDR sticks.

    I had a blue screen come up, crash my computer. Then on the reboot after getting into XP it freezes up again. On the 2nd time booting I powers up but nothing happens, no video, hard drive spin up, cd-rom spin up, nothing.

    So I figure its an issue with any of 4 things, video card, CPU, mobo, memory.

    So my first test was for the memory. I pull both out and then start putting one stick in each slot until it works. Soon it booted up just fine. I tested all slots with both sticks and found this out.

    Stick1
    A1 (good)
    A2 (good)
    B1 (good)
    B2 (good)

    Stick2
    A1 (good)
    A2 (good)
    B1 (bad)
    b2 (good)

    When ever stick2 is in B1 the computer will not boot. Is this a memory issue or a mother board issue? If there is no way to tell with this info, what tests do i need to do to narrow it down to either of the two?
     
  2. Ferg

    Ferg Manbearpig

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