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- Dec 10, 2002
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- San Antonio, TX
Hrmm. this is really really wierd behavior in my opinion for memory.
I have at home some old kingston BH-5 memory. A 1GB dual channel kit. I used to run this 24/7 at 250 [email protected] with no problems. I had a fan on them but they never even got hot to the touch. They hummed away merrily with no problems and no memtest errors ever.
About 10 months ago, I started modding my main PC. I was happily still using the computer off and on and finally took the whole thing apart for some major painting. This was back in May. All of a sudden before I complete my modding my brother moves back to my parents house (I use their garage cause it's better then my apartment) while looking for a new house for him and his soon to be wife. They stuff the garage so full of junk I could barely find any of my parts to work on and hoped everything would be OK when they finally moved out.
Fast forward to now. Brother FINALLY moved his crap out of the way and I was able to get to my computer parts. I started assembling everything to make sure everything still worked. I started with the basics, CPU, mobo, PSU, memory and vid card to see if stuff still at least posted.
BEEP BEEP BEEP.. that's all I got out the mobo. No post. No nothing. Something was wrong. I switched vid cards with my second PC and ruled that out. I look at the board and noticed some jumpers were missing. Replaced those in the proper positions and still wasn't posting. Thought the CMOS battery might have died and was causing a problem so got a new one. Nothing.
Next thing to try was the memory. I put in my patriot TCCD stuff from my second system and voila it posted!!! Hrmm.. seemed to me my memory was dead. Just to fiddle around I went back and forth with different slots and memory. My kingston wouldn't post no matter the configuration and anything else I used did. Dang... Still I didn't want to give up.
I went into the bios and looked at the default vmem values. 2.6. It's suppose to be the minimum for BH-5. So, I jack it up to 2.8. I didn't want to blow the TCCD's so I didn't go further.
I restart the system, put my kingston in and viola they post!!!! Humming along like they used too. I ran 4 hours this morning on memtest 8 and checked them out at lunch today and had zero errors. Purring along like they used to.
For grins and giggles, I moved the voltage back to 2.6 to double check if that was the problem. They posted like normal. I cleared the CMOS and they posted as well.
I don't get it. It seems to me like they needed to "warm up" after sitting so long before going back to normal. Is that an odd perception of mine or the reality of the situation?
I have at home some old kingston BH-5 memory. A 1GB dual channel kit. I used to run this 24/7 at 250 [email protected] with no problems. I had a fan on them but they never even got hot to the touch. They hummed away merrily with no problems and no memtest errors ever.
About 10 months ago, I started modding my main PC. I was happily still using the computer off and on and finally took the whole thing apart for some major painting. This was back in May. All of a sudden before I complete my modding my brother moves back to my parents house (I use their garage cause it's better then my apartment) while looking for a new house for him and his soon to be wife. They stuff the garage so full of junk I could barely find any of my parts to work on and hoped everything would be OK when they finally moved out.
Fast forward to now. Brother FINALLY moved his crap out of the way and I was able to get to my computer parts. I started assembling everything to make sure everything still worked. I started with the basics, CPU, mobo, PSU, memory and vid card to see if stuff still at least posted.
BEEP BEEP BEEP.. that's all I got out the mobo. No post. No nothing. Something was wrong. I switched vid cards with my second PC and ruled that out. I look at the board and noticed some jumpers were missing. Replaced those in the proper positions and still wasn't posting. Thought the CMOS battery might have died and was causing a problem so got a new one. Nothing.
Next thing to try was the memory. I put in my patriot TCCD stuff from my second system and voila it posted!!! Hrmm.. seemed to me my memory was dead. Just to fiddle around I went back and forth with different slots and memory. My kingston wouldn't post no matter the configuration and anything else I used did. Dang... Still I didn't want to give up.
I went into the bios and looked at the default vmem values. 2.6. It's suppose to be the minimum for BH-5. So, I jack it up to 2.8. I didn't want to blow the TCCD's so I didn't go further.
I restart the system, put my kingston in and viola they post!!!! Humming along like they used too. I ran 4 hours this morning on memtest 8 and checked them out at lunch today and had zero errors. Purring along like they used to.
For grins and giggles, I moved the voltage back to 2.6 to double check if that was the problem. They posted like normal. I cleared the CMOS and they posted as well.
I don't get it. It seems to me like they needed to "warm up" after sitting so long before going back to normal. Is that an odd perception of mine or the reality of the situation?