Bad Ram or DIMM?

leenhia

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Mar 9, 2015
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CPU: FX6300
Watercooling: H50
Motherboard: MSI 970 Gaming
GPU: EVGA GTX 560 ti
Ram: 8gb G.Skill SNIPER ( 2 x 4gb )
Hard Drive: WD 500gb
Power Supply: Thermaltake TR2 500W

I kept getting random freezes in bios and random no signal to monitor. I tested with a different power supply and GPU with same result. Next test was the RAM..

I tested 1 RAM stick at a time on each DIMM.

First RAM stick passed on all 4 DIMM, booted up computer with no problem. Second RAM stick passed DIMM slot 1 booted up everything was fine. It failed on DIMM 2,3,4 no post on monitor just black screen. I also tested a different set of RAM from my other computers and it passed all DIMM slot. What could be the problem? MB? DIMM? RAM? HELP! 🙁

 


Did memtest and both passed. I did more research and it turns out that one of the pin on the cpu was bent. Fixed the pin and now it works. Thanks :)