Killed a Ram stick

**dj_stick** · Nov 9, 2005, 12:30 AM

Don't know how, but i have

Went to bed and the machine was fine, woke up and none of the connected peripherals (card reader, mouse etc) had power and the monitors would not wake out of standby

i though whoops i've killed my CPU (it was clocked to 4ghz) so i reset the CMOS. Still no boot
removed the hsf and checked the chip for obvious signs of damage. nope none, but that doesn't mean anything.

So finally i decide to test the ram before returning the the store with the whole machine. Take out one stick and it boots. Put it back in a remove the other (sometimes dual channel messes up), machine fails to boot. Try the suspect stick in two other slots with no success, and i came to the conclusion i've killed a ram stick

i hate doing that

CDsDontBurn · Nov 9, 2005, 12:51 AM

did you try the suspected dead stick in by itself?

but from what you've said, i would agree that your stick is

**dj_stick** · Nov 9, 2005, 12:54 AM

yeh i removed the other stick and tried it in three different slots, including a known working one

strange as it was running underspec (500mhz) at the time

CDsDontBurn · Nov 9, 2005, 01:10 AM

try it in another machine if at all possible. but at this point, i would also agree that it is now dead. and like you said; it is strange that it died under spec

Lowfat · Nov 9, 2005, 01:57 AM

if it died under specs, RMA it.

**dj_stick** · Nov 9, 2005, 02:11 AM

i shall RMA it, and this machine is the only DDR2 machine i have, all the others in this house, and my dad's office for that matter, are Athlon XP systems

CDsDontBurn · Nov 9, 2005, 02:25 AM

you got it all online right? or did you get the ram from a retail store? if from a store, see if they can exhange it for you if it's still within the return/exhange policy timeline

**dj_stick** · Nov 9, 2005, 03:09 AM

bought it all at a retail store

1 year return to base warranty on everything

CDsDontBurn · Nov 9, 2005, 04:31 AM

then take it there then. they'll probably just exhange it for you right there on the spot.

at my work, we do even exchanges on anything within a 30 day period, after that we do all the RMA processing for you, but no even exhange

**dj_stick** · Nov 9, 2005, 06:35 AM

yeah they most likely will, i'll probably go on the weekend

Sandok · Nov 9, 2005, 08:50 AM

Be happy it was your ram. That's EXACTLY how my 9800 Pro Died. I turn off the PC, go to sleep. Wake up to a dead PC