My motherboard recently bit the dust in my Silverstone Raven Mini-ITX case. So I found, what I thought, was a great deal on Newegg for a Asrock mini-itx motherboard, open box for $100 bucks. It had all the bells and whistles I needed and was inline with my i7 processor. So I purchased it and my friend and I installed it in the case.
Everything seemed great until I went to turn the computer on day after installing it and the computer would start up, light on fan runs, for 2 seconds and then shut off. This process would repeat until I manually shut the computer off. I had recently put thermal past on the cpu and heat fan because the rig seemed to be much noisier than it used to be. After that it wouldn't start.
Completely stumped I took the rig to the local computer repair store and the guy figured out it was one of the RAM slots that was bad in the board. When he took the 4gb RAM card out, computer worked fine. So now I am down to 1 RAM slot with a 4gb card in it. I could return the board and get something else but I would have to uninstall it, reinstall new on, reinstall OS and redownload everything back to my hard drive again. Huge pain. I have decided to roll the dice and buy an 8gb RAM card for the one working slot and just hope that slot remains ok. Computer working well now.
My question is has anyone ever encountered this and is there a way to fix a broken RAM slot on a board without just getting a new board?
Thx!
Everything seemed great until I went to turn the computer on day after installing it and the computer would start up, light on fan runs, for 2 seconds and then shut off. This process would repeat until I manually shut the computer off. I had recently put thermal past on the cpu and heat fan because the rig seemed to be much noisier than it used to be. After that it wouldn't start.
Completely stumped I took the rig to the local computer repair store and the guy figured out it was one of the RAM slots that was bad in the board. When he took the 4gb RAM card out, computer worked fine. So now I am down to 1 RAM slot with a 4gb card in it. I could return the board and get something else but I would have to uninstall it, reinstall new on, reinstall OS and redownload everything back to my hard drive again. Huge pain. I have decided to roll the dice and buy an 8gb RAM card for the one working slot and just hope that slot remains ok. Computer working well now.
My question is has anyone ever encountered this and is there a way to fix a broken RAM slot on a board without just getting a new board?
Thx!