Hi,
I've got a TPower i45 mobo with a Q6600 CPU, running 4GB (2 x 2) DDR2-1066MHz RAM. Gets used heavily every day for work and has been running fine for a couple of years.
Friday morning turned on, first odd thing was I got the mobo boot screen (which I had switched off in the bios.) Then got 'CMOS Checksum Bad' message. I checked the BIOS and things like clock setting were ok. I loaded the defaults to get the pc to boot, but it freezes after less than a minute.
I tried running Memtest86+ on boot (setting in the BIOS) and either got lots of errors, or it would just freeze. I then tried taking out one of the memory sticks -everything runs smoothly. So I thought duff memory stick. But then I swapped the memory, run the tests again and again everything runs smoothly.
Basically I can insert any single memory dimm into any of the slots and it runs fine. But as soon as I insert a pair of dimms it fails, again regardless of the sockets used (my mobo has 4 dimm sockets & I always pair them correctly.)
I've also tried swapping the memory with another 2 x 2GB from another pc and the same thing happens, so I don't think it is the memory.
I've also tried updating the BIOS to the latest version. No effect.
Any ideas? I would be very grateful for any insight! Thanks for reading...
Jim
I've got a TPower i45 mobo with a Q6600 CPU, running 4GB (2 x 2) DDR2-1066MHz RAM. Gets used heavily every day for work and has been running fine for a couple of years.
Friday morning turned on, first odd thing was I got the mobo boot screen (which I had switched off in the bios.) Then got 'CMOS Checksum Bad' message. I checked the BIOS and things like clock setting were ok. I loaded the defaults to get the pc to boot, but it freezes after less than a minute.
I tried running Memtest86+ on boot (setting in the BIOS) and either got lots of errors, or it would just freeze. I then tried taking out one of the memory sticks -everything runs smoothly. So I thought duff memory stick. But then I swapped the memory, run the tests again and again everything runs smoothly.
Basically I can insert any single memory dimm into any of the slots and it runs fine. But as soon as I insert a pair of dimms it fails, again regardless of the sockets used (my mobo has 4 dimm sockets & I always pair them correctly.)
I've also tried swapping the memory with another 2 x 2GB from another pc and the same thing happens, so I don't think it is the memory.
I've also tried updating the BIOS to the latest version. No effect.
Any ideas? I would be very grateful for any insight! Thanks for reading...
Jim
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