Which is gone, mobo or ram?

[l33t p1mp]

Ok, so lets start off with a little background on this problem first. Recently, I have been experiencing a lot of crashes, and more and more voltage needed to sustain the same speed and I ended up going back to stock 2 weeks ago with stock voltages. Still very unstable and crashes about twice a day. At first, I thought my cpu had degraded, but I have now narrowed it down to the motherboard, ram, or cpu. Today, it crashed while I was browsing the web and I cant get it to turn back on, the damn thing keeps freezing at the splash screen no matter what voltages and speed I seem to try. I took out my ram and put in the ram from my E2200 rig and it still doesnt work so I dont think it might be the ram.

I tried putting the ram from the Q6700 rig (tracers) into the E2200 and a VERY bright white light is on the bottom of the first dimm and the pc shuts off. I thought it was just the LED on it that was messed up, so I tried it again after reseating the ram. Same thing...then I realized it was most likely electricity and told myself...gee, I really did it this time. I put the ram original ram from the E2200 back into it, and it boots fine (this is where I am typing this message.)

I will be sending a part back but I do not know if I should send the motherboard, or the ram. I pencil modded the mobo, and pushed it to 1.75 volts once for a very short period of time, but all the temperatures were fine and under 50. Also, I used to run my ram at 2.2 for a while but I stopped and ran them at 2.0 instead because I knew the D9's failed a lot. Now I dont even have a pc...which part should I send back? :mad:

[Mr.Guvernment]

try 1 stick in each slot
user only 1 HD
reset CMOS and leave it for like 10 mins

[l33t p1mp]

As I said on msn, doesnt work. :(

[Mr.Guvernment]

kick it?

[KamuiRSX]

Ok, so lets start off with a little background on this problem first. Recently, I have been experiencing a lot of crashes, and more and more voltage needed to sustain the same speed and I ended up going back to stock 2 weeks ago with stock voltages. Still very unstable and crashes about twice a day. At first, I thought my cpu had degraded, but I have now narrowed it down to the motherboard, ram, or cpu. Today, it crashed while I was browsing the web and I cant get it to turn back on, the damn thing keeps freezing at the splash screen no matter what voltages and speed I seem to try. I took out my ram and put in the ram from my E2200 rig and it still doesnt work so I dont think it might be the ram.

I tried putting the ram from the Q6700 rig (tracers) into the E2200 and a VERY bright white light is on the bottom of the first dimm and the pc shuts off. I thought it was just the LED on it that was messed up, so I tried it again after reseating the ram. Same thing...then I realized it was most likely electricity and told myself...gee, I really did it this time. I put the ram original ram from the E2200 back into it, and it boots fine (this is where I am typing this message.)

I will be sending a part back but I do not know if I should send the motherboard, or the ram. I pencil modded the mobo, and pushed it to 1.75 volts once for a very short period of time, but all the temperatures were fine and under 50. Also, I used to run my ram at 2.2 for a while but I stopped and ran them at 2.0 instead because I knew the D9's failed a lot. Now I dont even have a pc...which part should I send back? :mad:
Well bud, do you have a friend near you that you can borrow his RAM for testing? I would suggest that first and then put your RAM in his mobo and see which part fails. If your PC continues to do it, RMA the mobo. If his PC starts, RMA the RAM.

[l33t p1mp]

I have 2 other pc's with the same type of ram but not tracers, I tried 1 stick at a time from each of the pc's (a total of 4 sticks) resetting the cmos each time. I gave up and left the battery out and put my tracers back in. I come back the next day (today) and it boots...mobo?

[cloned]

Are they double sided or single sided?

[l33t p1mp]

The tracers are doubles, the others are singles. Btw, these singles clock remarkably well, I thought they would be crap lol.

[davidk21770]

A few more things to consider.
Windows may be corrupted invalidating your testing. Have you tried memtest86+? (Overnight or longer).
BIOS corrupted? Have you reloaded your BIOS?
It could also be the PSU.
Have you tried your memory (and CPU) in someone else's system?

[l33t p1mp]

Yeah, I put my tracers in the E2200 system and I saw a bright white light at the socket and it turned right off. I thought it was just the LED being weird so I did it again and it turned off a second time. I dare not try it on my E2160 system because it might do it on that board too (some one, p35-ds3l, older rev).

[KamuiRSX]

I have 2 other pc's with the same type of ram but not tracers, I tried 1 stick at a time from each of the pc's (a total of 4 sticks) resetting the cmos each time. I gave up and left the battery out and put my tracers back in. I come back the next day (today) and it boots...mobo?
You know what bud. To be honest, RMA them both. Since you have other systems to use, just kill two birds with one stone.

[little_scrapper]

Make and run a memtest cd to test the ram on one of your other, working computers. If they pass RMA the mother board. From there about all you can do is swap out anything that is cross compatable to see if it fails.