Hi,
I've got an old Gigabyte gigabyte z68ap-d3 that's running 12gb (3x4GB) of RAM so I got myself another stick of 4GB of the same part number.
When I popped it in the PC worked for a few minutes then reset and got stuck in a bootloop before being able to enter BIOS.
I managed to get it working again by resetting the CMOS but each time I replace the RAM in that slot it would do it again.
I managed to rule out faulty RAM by swapping them about and isolated it down to the previously unoccupied slot - it does seem to have a bit of "guff" in there so I'm wondering if it's just dirty after being left empty for so long, but I aren't sure about the best way to clean in out.
I do have some WD40 contact cleaner which is designed for cleaning electronics. so just wondering does anyone have any thoughts on using this or other ideas on how to clean the DIMM slot out? It might be completely knackered but it'd be nice to try recover it and get all 16GB working in dual chan.
Thanks!
I've got an old Gigabyte gigabyte z68ap-d3 that's running 12gb (3x4GB) of RAM so I got myself another stick of 4GB of the same part number.
When I popped it in the PC worked for a few minutes then reset and got stuck in a bootloop before being able to enter BIOS.
I managed to get it working again by resetting the CMOS but each time I replace the RAM in that slot it would do it again.
I managed to rule out faulty RAM by swapping them about and isolated it down to the previously unoccupied slot - it does seem to have a bit of "guff" in there so I'm wondering if it's just dirty after being left empty for so long, but I aren't sure about the best way to clean in out.
I do have some WD40 contact cleaner which is designed for cleaning electronics. so just wondering does anyone have any thoughts on using this or other ideas on how to clean the DIMM slot out? It might be completely knackered but it'd be nice to try recover it and get all 16GB working in dual chan.
Thanks!
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