- Joined
- Oct 2, 2008
- Location
- Harrisburg, PA
Well, recently I had a gig stick of OCZ Gold (Only DDR2-667, not that big of a deal, plus only a gig stick) die on me. I figured no biggie I must not have grounded myself. I grabbed 2 gigs of Crucial Ballistix DDR2-800 from a friend and plugged them into my board. I leave my house for an hour, come back, and notice a nice blank screen (although the indicator light does see a signal...). I reboot, nothing. I reset the CMOS and try again. Boom, that works. Windows goes to boot and I am greeted with a split second of blue screen... awesome! I set the RAM frequency manually, set the timing manually, and attempted to boot. Blue Screen. I reinstalled the OS. Blue screen. I ran in single channel mode. Blue screen. It seems the PC will only boot with one stick of RAM in it, weird eh? 
: Now, RAM just doesn't die... I've only had to replace bad RAM 6 or 7 times in the workplace. I have a feeling that the board is done, but it's not even three months old. Hopefully someone has another idea, but might as well throw thoughts together!
- Robb
Mobo: Asus P5Q
RAM: DDR2-800 Crucial Ballistix (2x 1GB Sticks)
tl;dr: Windows BSODs before after reinstall. RAM was run in Dual and Single Channel, Freq and Timing manually set and auto set, still BSODs. Will only boot with one stick. Pretty sure mobo is shot, but not even three months old.
: Now, RAM just doesn't die... I've only had to replace bad RAM 6 or 7 times in the workplace. I have a feeling that the board is done, but it's not even three months old. Hopefully someone has another idea, but might as well throw thoughts together!- Robb
Mobo: Asus P5Q
RAM: DDR2-800 Crucial Ballistix (2x 1GB Sticks)
tl;dr: Windows BSODs before after reinstall. RAM was run in Dual and Single Channel, Freq and Timing manually set and auto set, still BSODs. Will only boot with one stick. Pretty sure mobo is shot, but not even three months old.
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