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| Thread ID: 104233 | 2009-10-21 01:58:00 | Arrrgh Ram failure - What went wrong? | EX-WESTY (221) | Press F1 |
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| 822666 | 2009-10-21 04:13:00 | I reinstalled the origional two 128 sticks + an additional 256K that I had lying around it's chugging away happily. I have some more 1Gb sticks but they ain't going anywhere near it until I figure out what went wrong. Win XP and 1/2 Gb of ram and it's like a 3 legged dog with a broken leg, still better than 256Mb which was like a 3 legged dog with two broken legs hence the upgrade. |
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| 822667 | 2009-10-21 05:06:00 | Here's a photo of the offending items images.trademe.co.nz |
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| 822668 | 2009-10-21 11:37:00 | www.ami.com For a start that only applies to AMI BIOS v8 and not to any other version or company like Award, Phoenix etc and doesn't take into account any customised versions. Secondly, that even lists at least 2 different types of memory errors, both with different beep codes (I have heard both of those and more, all caused by faulty RAM) |
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| 822669 | 2009-10-21 11:42:00 | Here's a photo of the offending items images.trademe.co.nz I'm confused, did you buy the new RAM from Trademe? What are the lines going across them? Perhaps the motherboard had the VDIMM set too high? |
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| 822670 | 2009-10-21 19:16:00 | # Supports a maximum memory size of 2 GB (using 2 x 1 GB memory modules) # Warning: Not all memory configuration qualified! # Support only 2.5V DIMM DDRAM configurations # Un-buffered type support # With CPU FSB: * 800 MHz memory up to DDR400 * 533 MHz memory up to DDR333 * 400 MHz memory up to DDR266 Its an MSI board. Rubbish. MSI are NOT rubbish PCT..... |
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| 822671 | 2009-10-21 19:23:00 | The lines going across the ram chips in the middle are where it seems to have failed. Chips on both sides of the dimm are affected. The chips were purchased from a trader on trademe, brand new items and correctly speced for the pc so the prechecking tells me. |
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| 822672 | 2009-10-21 19:55:00 | The lines going across the ram chips in the middle are where it seems to have failed. Chips on both sides of the dimm are affected. The chips were purchased from a trader on trademe, brand new items and correctly speced for the pc so the prechecking tells me. You do mean the long lines which go across the whole ram stick...? I take it also that the label is not meant to be blackened... It does indeed look like they were seriously overheated... I do not recognise the large QFP Chip right in the middle. Do you know what that is for? What is the brand and model of the RAM you purchased? What is the brand and model of the RAM that still works? |
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| 822673 | 2009-10-21 20:06:00 | The lines across the chips are just a white/ grey paint The chip in the middle is hooked up to a row of led's on the top of the dimm for visual confirmation. The sticker is silver, it just didn't scan too well. No name or manufacturer on the module, just levin 7060ip which a google produces nothing. Still haven't heard back from the seller yet either The ram that works is the original HP ram + another 256 stick that I had lying round, its been going all night with no problem. Still only got 512 which needs to be addressed hence the reason for the upgrade in the 1st place. |
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| 822674 | 2009-10-21 20:50:00 | Where does it say "levin 7060ip"? If it's top left in the photo, printed to the board itself then that's probably just the PCB maker's mark What does the label say? There can't be many types of RAM which feature LEDs.... |
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| 822675 | 2009-10-21 21:18:00 | Leds - yeah 1st time I'd seen them too Label says 1GB DDR - I 400MhZ 8972-C-0999 and warrenty void if removed. |
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