My buddy was OCing his new Core2 system when suddenly the system stopped booting at any settings.
He pulled a ram stick and it booted right up. He changed the module and it wouldn’t so he figured it was a stick of memory that just suddenly went bad. It was a 2Gb pair of OCZ 8000, fast and expensive. He then noticed the heatsink on the module that was not working was loose; the sticky tape used to stick the heatsink to the chip was not staying. It would stay on the chip for a moment or two then lift off a tiny bit. He stuck a large paper clip(clamp) in it and stuffed it back and it worked fine, great actually. He’s had the ram running well over 500MHz.
So a loose heatsink actually kept the memory from working entirely, not even at stock value. I can’t imagine that being the case but it most certainly happened.
He pulled a ram stick and it booted right up. He changed the module and it wouldn’t so he figured it was a stick of memory that just suddenly went bad. It was a 2Gb pair of OCZ 8000, fast and expensive. He then noticed the heatsink on the module that was not working was loose; the sticky tape used to stick the heatsink to the chip was not staying. It would stay on the chip for a moment or two then lift off a tiny bit. He stuck a large paper clip(clamp) in it and stuffed it back and it worked fine, great actually. He’s had the ram running well over 500MHz.
So a loose heatsink actually kept the memory from working entirely, not even at stock value. I can’t imagine that being the case but it most certainly happened.
