Posted: 12/27/2008 4:32:56 PM EDT
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My newish (less than a year old) comp has failed to restart after I turned it off (it had been running for weeks prior to that). Now the little diagnostic LED is reading a RAM failure. I tried swapping out the modules, and none of them will get them system to boot (I had 4 different modules - 2x 1gb, 2x 512mb). Prior to shutting it down, it had been running very stable with no issues.
The system is a MSI P6n platinum mobo, 2gb Crucial Ballistix DDR2 800 RAM, EVGA 8800gts 512mb vid card, OCZ 700 watt PSU, Antec 900 case. I'm thinking that the motherboard is fried (although I guess all the RAM could be bad - but they were all in the system & working well 12 hours before), but want to see if anyone has any other ideas. Sam |
| We just worked on one that had 3 of 4 bad sticks of ram (ocz 6400). Customer said it was working fine before that failure too. We have seen a lot of ddr2 just die after a short time. Very little failed ddr in the previous 5-6 years. I would probably try that first, since the diag is showing that as a problem. |