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Sin317
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Posted: Tue, 11th Mar 2014 16:46 Post subject: Problem with 1 Ram bank	Quick Quote Quote

i took out my evo 212 cooler today, to replace the heatsink paste. Easy job, done quickly. But when i reboot the system, the memOK led lights up red. Damn, maybe i somehow touched the ram sticks or whatever. Take them both out, make sure they're clean and put them back in. Same shit. So i take them out again and switch them. Same shit. Put only 1 in and it boots (position a0 i guess). But it won't boot when i add the second stick. Motherboard is a p8z77-v le plus any known factors which could play a role here or simply the memory slot busted ?

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frogster

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Posted: Tue, 11th Mar 2014 17:44 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

dust or thermal paste in the bank. powersurge. try to clean that slot with a brush. get a powerfull lantern and check if you have between contacts on the plastic black marks from a powersurge.

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Posted: Tue, 11th Mar 2014 18:29 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Or you might have tightened the cooler so roughly that you bent pins on your CPU socket. Bent pins can cause dual channel not working, also delidding usually fucks up dual channel.

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Posted: Tue, 11th Mar 2014 18:48 Post subject:

Also trying to rub the pins of the memory stick with a soft eraser (those white ones).

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Posted: Tue, 11th Mar 2014 19:15 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

My sons old PC had kinda this problem for a while. anytime we cleaned the heatsink/PC ram would go tits up and get the bios beeps for missing/fucked ram. Never figured out what it was, but for us wiggling each stick with my thumb while in the slot and powered down a few times got it back up and working. I assume it was some loose pins, or connection or such. But it never failed: do anything that even slightly disturbs the ram sticks beeps on reboot..wiggle 3-4 times and start until it stopped beeping, good for 4-5 months. -We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life. -Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf Disclaimer: Post made by me are of my own creation. A delusional mind relayed in text form.

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Sin317
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Posted: Thu, 13th Mar 2014 13:16 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

thanks guys Anyway, after making this thread, i removed the cpu again and yeah, bent pins all over the place. tried to fix it, but it only made it worse. Anyway, got a new mobo for the time being. Bad timing lol, wanted to buy a new one with new cpu next week anyways Oh well, no (big) harm done. Gonna sell this mobo (gigabyte GA-H77-DS3H) + 8gb ram + 3570k + 212 cooler + 660ti to a friend for .. 400ish€ (including my old screen 22") So, any suggestions for my new CPU and mobo ? ^^

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Posted: Thu, 13th Mar 2014 13:40 Post subject:

Damn... was it really that "easy" just to bent the CPU pins without realizing that you were doing it while re-seating the cooler? Neutral

I was thinking of cleaning my CPU this summer and re-apply some thermal paste but now you put the fear of the lord in me!

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Sin317
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Posted: Thu, 13th Mar 2014 13:53 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

well, first time this ever happened to me, so i'd call it a freak accident lol

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Posted: Thu, 13th Mar 2014 14:09 Post subject:

tonizito wrote:

Damn... was it really that "easy" just to bent the CPU pins without realizing that you were doing it while re-seating the cooler? Neutral

I was thinking of cleaning my CPU this summer and re-apply some thermal paste but now you put the fear of the lord in me!

tbh, is not easy at all. you need to have really bad karma to manage to bend pins Smile

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just make sure that cpu is properly inserted. take your time, dont rush anything.
if you are scared, just replace the thermal paste without unsocketing the cpu.
take the cooler out, clean cooler/cpu apply thermal paste, put cooler back.
and use the force with a good sense Smile

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Posted: Thu, 13th Mar 2014 14:13 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Some coolers has shitty design on the plate which you tighten against CPU, meaning that you can overtighten them and bent pins even if the CPU would be properly inserted. Ofcourse its common sense not to go berzerker mode and tighten cooler to CPU with brute force (but it can happen it seems)

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Sin317
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Posted: Thu, 13th Mar 2014 14:14 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

yeah don't really know how the hell i was able to screw this up lol. I've done this a couple dozen times and never even came close to screwing anything up lol. But like i said, was about to buy a new mobo and cpu next week anyway, so at least it didn't happen at the worst moment (got a cheap gb mobo for 50-60€ for the the time being and gonna sell it with the cpu and ram and my old gpu to a neighbour.) No sli support tho lol.

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