XPS 410 not booting

[jdcountryboy91]

I restarted my pc the other day and the POST lights hung on lights 3 and 4. which is a RAM error. I troubleshooted for a while and I can only get 1 of my 4 1gb ram sticks to work. It will work in any of the 4 slots. NONE of the other sticks work by themselves or paired with the good one. How could it be that 3 sticks just magically dont work??

 

[aford10]

Try them in another PC to ensure they are bad. It's odd that they would all go at the same time. What kind and voltage are they? Still under warranty?

 

[jdcountryboy91]

thats what I would think too. they are regular pc5300. I just got 2 of them a month ago but the other one I cant get working is one of the originals. The PC is still under warranty. Im sure those other PNY sticks are too.

 

[jdcountryboy91]

i jus got off the phone with dell. they are sending me a replacement stick of RAM for one of them that quit working so I will then be able to see if it really is the RAM or the computer.

 

[aford10]

Sounds good. Let us know how it goes.

 

[Major7up]

Also, how do you have your mem set in BIOS? By speed, auto or manually configured?

 

[itadakimasu]

idk if the xps is different but from my experience w\ dells i've never had the option of changing ram speeds.

if 1 stick works in each slot and the other 3 don't work, they must be bad ( i would think )

 

[aford10]

Retail manufacturers usually lock down the BIOS pretty good. ^ Agreed, the OP probably won't have the option to adjust RAM settings.