Peculiar problem with RAM

[G9xftw]

Ok. So I have had my gaming rig for the past 2 years now. It has Corsair vengeance 16gb ddr3 sticks, 4x4. Once in a while, say after some months usually, when I boot up my pc I get no display. The PC totally boots into the OS etc, but no display on screen. Dont get any check signal cable/ no signal message on screen. Just the orange light on the tv power indicator lights up. It lights up blue when there is a display.

So here is the funny issue.

I remove any RAM stick at random and with my fingers just rub across the golden part of the stick with my finger, the one which has the leads. The part of the ram stick which sticks into the board in the slot. Dont know how else to describe in technical terms. haha.

I then stick the stick back in the ram slot ( lol ),....and...boom, I got my display back......

It works every single time. But lately, I have had to do it about 4 times in the last 2 days which has got me concerned. Also this one time, I was browsing the web and suddenly the screen went black. No display again. Again tried the above solution and my display was up and running again.. What is this weird thing , rubbing the golden part of the stick....I learnt this while I was working at a call center for a month as an IT intern...lol..they had some weird ways to fix up stuff,,,,like whoop the PSU a couple of times from the rear, bam, the PSU starts working. It also shoved out alot of dust,,,in the form of brown smoke..hehehe.... :\

 

[Tradesman1]

Try cleaning the contacts with rubbing alcohol and blow the slots out with compressed air. Has their ever been any liquid spilled on the mobo or possibly exposed to rain, very high humidity? (can cause oxidation that can lead to these type problems)

 

[G9xftw]

Try cleaning the contacts with rubbing alcohol and blow the slots out with compressed air. Has their ever been any liquid spilled on the mobo or possibly exposed to rain, very high humidity? (can cause oxidation that can lead to these type problems)

Well, when I think about it...it is monsoon right now. Very humid. Perhaps thats the problem, but then again I do have like 4 packets of silica gel inside my cabinet. To reduce the moisture....last time this problem happened to me was in summer. I think twice in summer. But mosoons comparatively more. So I guess you are right with the humidity factor. Do those silica gel packets help much?

 

[Tradesman1]

Should help, are all the sticks from a single package of DRAM

 

[G9xftw]

Should help, are all the sticks from a single package of DRAM

I did not understand what you meant by "single package of DRAM"...ummm...I bought them separately. In packs of 2. Both they were not a bundled edition or anything. I just ordered 2 units each. There was a gap of say few months between the 2 orders.

 

[Tradesman1]

May just be they don't want to play - try raising the DRAM voltage + 0.06 and see if it stabilizes things