Last night, after using the htpc for about 5 minutes the screen suddenly went blank. I tried to restart but it would not post. I started to disconnect stuff and found that after removing 1 of the 2 sticks of ram it would post and would function normally (of course this is with 1gb of ram instead of 2gb). It appears that slots 3 and 4 are broken. The htpc will work with either stick of ram in slots 1 or 2, but it will not post if I add either of the second sticks to slots 3 or 4. How can I diagnose this...what's causing this? Can it be fixed? If it can't be fixed, can I buy a 2gb stick of ram and just not use slots 3 or 4 anymore? Thanks for any help Seth Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 Wolfdale 2.8GHz Scythe SCMNJ-1000 80mm Sleeve "NINJA MINI" CPU Cooler GIGABYTE GA-E7AUM-DS2H LGA 775 NVIDIA GeForce 9400 A-DATA 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB AVerMedia AVerTV Combo PCIe LG Black Blu-ray/HD DVD-ROM & 16x Antec Fusion Remote Black ------------------------- Seth T Sanbower
So I've tried swapping the 2 sticks of ram around some more. I used compressed air to clean out the memory slots. Still only getting one stick of ram to work at a time. Putting either stick in slots 3 or 4 and the computer still won't post. I'm thinking the slots are dead...can't understand how this happened...but anyway. I checked newegg and 2gb sticks of ram are pretty cheap. I know I won't get dual channel, but how will using one 2gb stick of ram instead of 2 1gb sticks impact performance?
good morning sir first of all use a good Eraser to clean your ram .. and unplug bower from your pc and use an old toth brush with a Petrol 90 or thinner to clean the ram sockets and wait untill thy dry out.. if thats work for you thats awesome if not than its a ram flaw witch mean that one of your rams got a broblem and the only way to know wich is wich by setting up windows using one of them eatch time the broken one will give you hard time .. about using one 2 gigs ram or 2 1 gigs its all depinding on your motherboard if it uses dual channel ram its better to use 2 ram not one otherwise use the 2gigs ram . hope i did help even alittle .
