I bought my current PC a few years ago. I bought the Motherboard, CPU, cooler, RAM and everything separate and assembled them myself.
I bought it with 4gb of DDR3 RAM, but soon noticed it crashed when I put all of it in. By crashed I mean you start it up, browse the web, start a game, just look around the Windows explorer and the screen freezes and whatever sound is playing stretches out, until you Ctrl Alt Del or hit the power button. The time it takes is pretty random, sometimes a few minutes after starting up, sometimes an hour.
At first I thought the RAM chip was faulty so I brought it back to the shop and exchanged it for a single 4 gb chip. That caused the same crashing. So I brought that back, got my money back and went to a different store and bought 2 two GB sticks.
The machine has worked fine over the last few years with 2gb of ram, while I have 2 more 2 GB chips gathering dust on the machine.
I have an SSD disk, so I figure having little RAM isn't holding back things too much.
But just the other day I dusted off those RAM chips and inserted one of them. Same thing, after 20 minutes it crashed.
Has anyone experienced this kind of thing before? I've googled around a good bit, but haven't found any solution?
Thanks for any help with this
I bought it with 4gb of DDR3 RAM, but soon noticed it crashed when I put all of it in. By crashed I mean you start it up, browse the web, start a game, just look around the Windows explorer and the screen freezes and whatever sound is playing stretches out, until you Ctrl Alt Del or hit the power button. The time it takes is pretty random, sometimes a few minutes after starting up, sometimes an hour.
At first I thought the RAM chip was faulty so I brought it back to the shop and exchanged it for a single 4 gb chip. That caused the same crashing. So I brought that back, got my money back and went to a different store and bought 2 two GB sticks.
The machine has worked fine over the last few years with 2gb of ram, while I have 2 more 2 GB chips gathering dust on the machine.
I have an SSD disk, so I figure having little RAM isn't holding back things too much.
But just the other day I dusted off those RAM chips and inserted one of them. Same thing, after 20 minutes it crashed.
Has anyone experienced this kind of thing before? I've googled around a good bit, but haven't found any solution?
Thanks for any help with this