Johnson Posted January 29, 2006 Posted January 29, 2006 I had been experiencing random shutdowns whilst gaming recently and have been doing some testing to see if I could pinpoint the problem. I noticed there was a member with a similar problem to me who has posted in the AMD Overclocking section but to summarise here are the issues I have been having. The machine will just suddenly reboot,no BSOD,no errors reported at all it is almost as though the power cable has been pulled.The machine will reboot until I try and put it under full load. I have carried out various checks on both my harddrives and unplugged the optical drives.I have also measured my voltage rails with a digital multimeter and they are withing in specification(also the green lights on the psu indicate they are ok) I tried earlier today to flash to a different bios(was using 7-04bta) and I am now using the 6-23bta from TMods cd.This has made no difference at all. After the bios flash I thought I would try and check the memory(now for the weird part lol) I have always used the orange slots for my memory so I removed the top stick from DIMM 2.The pc would not post.I am getting a single beep repeating and the diagnostic leds are stuck on three lit.Initially I thought that the stick had gone bad so I swopped it into DIMM slot 2 and the pc then posted and went into WindowsI then tried the stick that was originally in DIMM 2 in DIMM4 and I had the same beeping and no POST. I have since tried 2 different sets of Ram and the problem is the same.It also occurs if I try to use DIMM 3. Now it gets weirder,if I put the ram in both the orange slots the pc posts without a problem and the bios,Windows and CPU Z all see 1024mb of ram. Now I am thinking of possibly RMAing the board but I want to make sure I have not missed anything stupid so would like some input from you knowledgable people here on the Street. I guess its quite possible also that the two problems are unrelated in some way?But I cant figure out what it could be. Thanks J Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowboy Posted January 29, 2006 Posted January 29, 2006 1stick only of ram will only work in slots1or2 single channel Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnson Posted January 29, 2006 Posted January 29, 2006 Doh I didnt realise that .I honestly never knew that. Ok that clears up the ram issue then lol. Much appreciated (feel like a noob now). J Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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