One stick from a dual-channel kit went bad

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rishiswaz

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Recently I have been having problems with my system and I narrowed it down to 1 of 2 things, either the motherboard or the RAM. The system had been up for around 2 years now so I thought it would be more likely to be the motherboard (I had a really cheap budget board from MSI that I may have fried from overclocking) so I upgraded to the Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 but it was still giving me problems. I took out one of the memory modules and then it started working again, Windows repaired itself, and everything was fine and dandy. I tried swapping the sticks at this point to see if it was the slot for some reason or the stick, after the swap I got the same boot errors as earlier but they went away when I put the working stick back in. If I get another stick of the same brand, model, speed, voltage, timings, etc. would it still work even though it isn't a dual channel kit?
 
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geofelt
A second stick is likely to work; but no guarantees or support.

Ram is sold in kits for a reason.
Ram from the same vendor and part number can be made up of differing manufacturing components over time.
Some motherboards can be very sensitive to this.
That is why ram vendors will NOT support ram that is not bought in one kit.
Although, I think the problem has lessened with the newer Intel chipsets. Still,
it is safer to get what you need in one kit.
The gold standard for testing ram is memtest86+. It is a bootable cd or usb stick.

Most ram sold has a lifetime guarantee.
You should be able to rma the bad ram.

For this reason, the ram vendor will want to replace the whole kit to insure that it works.
Some motherboards are sensitive...
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A second stick is likely to work; but no guarantees or support.

Ram is sold in kits for a reason.
Ram from the same vendor and part number can be made up of differing manufacturing components over time.
Some motherboards can be very sensitive to this.
That is why ram vendors will NOT support ram that is not bought in one kit.
Although, I think the problem has lessened with the newer Intel chipsets. Still,
it is safer to get what you need in one kit.
The gold standard for testing ram is memtest86+. It is a bootable cd or usb stick.

Most ram sold has a lifetime guarantee.
You should be able to rma the bad ram.

For this reason, the ram vendor will want to replace the whole kit to insure that it works.
Some motherboards are sensitive to mismatched ram. AMD more so than Intel.
 
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