Alert - Error Memory Failure Dimm 2 - Dell Precision T3500

[flogside]

So ive got a Dell Precision T3500. Have changed heatsink, re applied new arctic thermal paste, new graphics card and 3 x 4gb of RAM (crucial, website said its compatible).

Turn it on for the first time since buying it all and this is the message i cannot work out. Ive tried reseating the RAM in the slot, Dimm 1 and 3 are fine but its just this one. Ive reset the motherboard by taking out the battery and holding power button down etc but still happening.

Currently running the memory diagnostic test but does anyone have any ideas??

Really hoping this isnt a motherboard issue 🙁

 

[ss202sl]

swap the memory around, and see if the error follows the memory stick. It may actually be a failed stick of memory.

 

[flogside]

swap the memory around, and see if the error follows the memory stick. It may actually be a failed stick of memory.

Thank you for the reply, ive tried that already and it is always DIMM Slot 2 that has the error regardless of the stick of ram in it!

 

[flogside]

Didnt get anywhere with the diagnostic so for the first time i tried to boot it and install windows and got a BSOD and it restarted itself. This is just gone from bad to worse lol i have it set to RAID but it says both hard drives are Non-RAID disks, is this something to do with it?

 

[ss202sl]

Do you want raid? Why set it to raid? Did you set up a raid volume?

 

[flogside]

No idea so i changed it to AHCI and am currently installing windows but this of course still leaves me with the DIMM problem! Which im assuming will still leave me with 8GB ram but i bought 12gb and would like to fully utilise it all!

 

[ss202sl]

verify latest MB bios

 

[flogside]

Well im just doing all the windows updates and installing drivers, ill have a look at how to do that and see what happens if i can.

 

[flogside]

Does anyone else have any answers in regards to this? Cant seem to fix it!