I'm really getting crazy... today I spent 4 hrs getting my comp to boot with both Team Xtreem ram sticks and then I switch to ram slot 2 and 4 and it boots on the first try? Why is all this happening to me ffs. The weird part is once I get it to boot it works all good but booting is really difficult. I did need 2.25v tho or it wouldn't boot. If I use 2.225v it won't boot, and if I use 2.25v it will boot and superpi, memtest etc doesn't report any problems... what's up with that? I mean if the RAM stick is bad then why wouldn't any stability tests show any problems? I somehow don't think it's the ram slots that are damaged either as it works if I put the ram stick in that doesn't have any problems booting and is stable etc and with the Cellshock kit it boots always at first try if I use slot 1 and 3, then again that kit has screwed up on me too after a week or two or so usage, and I do see a reason to try put them in slot 2 and 4 for testing's sake but then again after 4hrs of trying to get the comp boot with 2 ram sticks, I don't feel like taking the risk and turning it off again.
I won't shut down this comp EVER again, dunno if it will boot again or not.
I've already applied RMA for the Cellshock PC2-8000CL5 kit I bought and as a replacement I suggested Team Xtreem PC2-6400 4-4-4-10 with D9GMH chips... I'm done with D9GKX... If also the new kit will fail I'll prolly move on to powerchip or something and leave the buggy but o/c friendly micron sticks alone.
Whatever it's bugged ram sticks or motherboard I don't know yet... a mobo replacement just in case is getting more and more interesting though.
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