My ram became slow suddnly

[chicken0516]

So here's the story, i was doing a physical clean up on my SYSTEM UNIT and after dusting the mobo and fans and turning it on, it always shuts down around after 8 mins. fixed it by reconnecting everythng properly. then the problem was fixed. after that my 2 sticks of 2 gig DD3 RAM became slow and only runs 2gig of it. i tried cleaning it and rubbing pencil earaser on it. and yet its still 2gig. what else can i do? btw its age is like 6 years already. my whole UNIT.. LOL

 

[sadique59]

Hi,
First take out both ram from there slot and try to clean the ram slot with brush or by blowing air from air blower then reconnect the ram n turn on your system hope it will solve your problem

 

[chicken0516]

tnx man i will try that tomorrow

 

[lysias2point0]

was you wearing a groundstrap during your cleaning session? I'm betting you wasn't and fried one of the sticks. buy new ram sticks, think that will solve your problem

 

[chicken0516]

Ground strap? aint nobody got time fo that. haha.
tnx for the info, i think its one thing that happend. maybe.

 

[smorizio]

sounds like one of the ram sticks got zapped from static electricity. run memtest see which stick not see and then replace it.