Hey guys. I`v got a problem and it took me a while to figure it out!
It started off with the computer having trouble booting up after being shut down, or put to sleep mode. All the fans would start up, same with the lights, but there was no beep or bios loading up, as well the the screen not getting on. I had to play with the power supply`s on/off switch to then push the power button again, and it would, after several tries, boot up.
So i thought it was my power supply not giving enough juice to my system, which made sense. I had a Corsair 520 Watt power supply powering 6gbs or ram, a Q6600, 3 hard drives and a XFX Radeon hd4890 1gb, as well as several fans! So i got a OCZ 850watt PSU.... Same thing happens... doesn't boot up.
So the 1st thing i did after that, was take out a set of ram sticks (i have a pair 2x2gb of Patriot viper DDr 2 1066mhz and a pair 2x1gb of Crucial Ballistix DDr2 1066mhz), it was the crucials. And the computer worked... booted up first thing, and every times afterwords... so i thought it was my memory that was defective, so i sent an RMA to crucial, explaining what happened. They accepted and i was going to send the sticks... But i wanted to make sure it was the crucial sticks... so i took out the patriot, and put the crucial in their slots. IT worked!!
Then what i did is i tried every slot with 1 stick of Patriot, and then with 1 Crucial. Every slot worked except for the 1st one, the one nearest to the CPU. Following with a 7 pass test of each memory module with Memtest86. Everyone passed the test!
Now i`m not sure why 1 slot doesn't work, i never touched it except to put a module in, i never put the memory the wrong way, i always double check and go smoothly... Is there anything i can do to test it or fix it?
P.S i'm running Windows 7 64bit
It started off with the computer having trouble booting up after being shut down, or put to sleep mode. All the fans would start up, same with the lights, but there was no beep or bios loading up, as well the the screen not getting on. I had to play with the power supply`s on/off switch to then push the power button again, and it would, after several tries, boot up.
So i thought it was my power supply not giving enough juice to my system, which made sense. I had a Corsair 520 Watt power supply powering 6gbs or ram, a Q6600, 3 hard drives and a XFX Radeon hd4890 1gb, as well as several fans! So i got a OCZ 850watt PSU.... Same thing happens... doesn't boot up.
So the 1st thing i did after that, was take out a set of ram sticks (i have a pair 2x2gb of Patriot viper DDr 2 1066mhz and a pair 2x1gb of Crucial Ballistix DDr2 1066mhz), it was the crucials. And the computer worked... booted up first thing, and every times afterwords... so i thought it was my memory that was defective, so i sent an RMA to crucial, explaining what happened. They accepted and i was going to send the sticks... But i wanted to make sure it was the crucial sticks... so i took out the patriot, and put the crucial in their slots. IT worked!!
Then what i did is i tried every slot with 1 stick of Patriot, and then with 1 Crucial. Every slot worked except for the 1st one, the one nearest to the CPU. Following with a 7 pass test of each memory module with Memtest86. Everyone passed the test!
Now i`m not sure why 1 slot doesn't work, i never touched it except to put a module in, i never put the memory the wrong way, i always double check and go smoothly... Is there anything i can do to test it or fix it?
P.S i'm running Windows 7 64bit