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Yeah I am/ was struggling.Originally Posted by Splash
I had a blue screen last night so decided to go up to the latest BIOS.
Still the 6Gb RAM seen as installed, 4Gb usable continues.
Noticed that the BIOS does only see 4Gb RAM installed, so could it be a memory remap issue or does this point back to hardware damage/ fault?
On the other hand, the BIOS updates did fix another problem I was having.
It didn't fall off, it merely became insufficient at it's purpose and got a bit droopy...
Can you screenshot for us this 4GB usable?
what do you see in the BIOS.
Also remember at the LAN you can partake in some of the best technical support known to man, espesually if I've been drinking.
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hmm give me five minutes, will have to remote onto the machine from work.
It didn't fall off, it merely became insufficient at it's purpose and got a bit droopy...
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The BIOS says it see's 4Gb im beginning to lean towards what ive seen on the net about it being a possible bent pin issue.
It didn't fall off, it merely became insufficient at it's purpose and got a bit droopy...
Ok, here are my thoughts in no particular order
Voltage levels? Might be worth bumping them very slightly for the memory, increasing the timings in case its just having a little issue there.
Take out all the memory, put it back in the first slot, try all sticks in that, see if that works, then all sticks in the second slot and so forth.
This way, if you have a bent pin, or dud stick it should show itself by not booting, if all sticks fail in one slot, its a dud slot (bent pin, damaged CPU pad, duff mobo etc), if one stick fails in all slots, then its the RAM, if one stick fails in one slot then its probably the RAM been fusy and the motherboard been a dick, you can probably fix that by timings and memory voltage, maybe.
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Hmm I will need to know/ find which voltages to increase as I havent really messed with that stuff in a BIOS before.
Cheers though mate
It didn't fall off, it merely became insufficient at it's purpose and got a bit droopy...
Just had another BSOD, this time after an hour or two of use.
It didn't fall off, it merely became insufficient at it's purpose and got a bit droopy...
If someone could point as to what voltages to increase I will test this tonight
After googling im guessing I will see a setting in the BIOS for QPI/Vtt?
It didn't fall off, it merely became insufficient at it's purpose and got a bit droopy...
Maybe lets try re-seating the memory sticks and come back to the memory voltage bit later.
Overvolting memory can perminantly damage your computer, and is an affront to god.
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When you updated BIOS, did you reload optimised defaults (not 'failsafe' or whatever)?
If it's bend pins then sometimes loosening the HSF can help - what HSF are you using?
Aaah yes, the infamous fussy RAM/dickish motherboard error
I think I did for the one but forgot for the others, will test tonight.
At the moment the stock one due to money
Will also reseat the RAM tonight.
It didn't fall off, it merely became insufficient at it's purpose and got a bit droopy...
@ Splash - added
Oh what fun and *naughty word* games ive had tonight.
Was remoted into PC from work, all day, I had one BSOD so removed some Gigabyte crud from the system and didnt have a BSOD for ~6 hours.
Got home and reseated the RAM, system boots, 2Gb, hmm power off, leave for few seconds and reseat RAM, still 2Gb seen. Fiddled somemore, now the system refused to boot into Windows, missing dll file...great!
Tried usual stuff, wouldnt work, disconnected SSD to make sure it hadn't failed, got a message saying boot device not found.
Reattached and rebooted, windows boots, 4Gb Ram seen.
So turned off, single stick = boot 2Gb
Second stick = boot 4Gb
Third stick = no boot
Queue angry swearing noises.
Turned off system and rebooted, no boot. Turned off, left for few seconds, tried again, booted with 4Gb.
Did more investigation: -
RAM in white slots = boot
RAM in blue slots = no boot
RAM in working white, blue and working white = no boot
So, if the PC makes it too and through LAN its going back to SCAN for testing and such as I'm about ready to use it as a door stop!
It didn't fall off, it merely became insufficient at it's purpose and got a bit droopy...
have you checked the cpu socket pins are all aligned?
That's the normal slot layout restrictions - even described in the manual
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