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Quick Question for you all.
I'm running and FX-60, 8800 GTX with 3 Gig of Corsair XMS. The OS is WinXP. Last night i go and do a restart after a windows update i get back to the Boot up screen just before a memory test is done and the system just hangs. It takes about 5 mins to get to the memory test and then doesn't do anything its a dead stick. I cannot use a keyboard, cannot do anything. I've let it sit there to see if it would boot up after a while nothing.
Steps i have taken to find out the source of the issue:
Removed all hardware and started from scratch: This resolved nothing. I started adding back in things slowly to see if i could figure something out and no dice. I rotated out all 3 sticks of RAM to see if one was bad and nothing there.
I noticed also that the video card fan was having trouble spinning so i cleaned it out and it worked ok but not well. So i tried the onboard video and nothing there as well helped.
Another observation is that even after only being on for a short time the RAM heatsinks were unusually HOT. Like not wanting to touch hot. Also the load lights on the RAM showed that whatever stick was in the inital slot 1 always was maxed out.
I have no clue what could be causing this other than possibly bad memory and/or cpu. I had to use a Stock CPU fan since my Zalman crapped out a few weeks ago along with my water cooling pump due to a power surge.
So if anyone can offer any insight please let me know. Thanks
I'm running and FX-60, 8800 GTX with 3 Gig of Corsair XMS. The OS is WinXP. Last night i go and do a restart after a windows update i get back to the Boot up screen just before a memory test is done and the system just hangs. It takes about 5 mins to get to the memory test and then doesn't do anything its a dead stick. I cannot use a keyboard, cannot do anything. I've let it sit there to see if it would boot up after a while nothing.
Steps i have taken to find out the source of the issue:
Removed all hardware and started from scratch: This resolved nothing. I started adding back in things slowly to see if i could figure something out and no dice. I rotated out all 3 sticks of RAM to see if one was bad and nothing there.
I noticed also that the video card fan was having trouble spinning so i cleaned it out and it worked ok but not well. So i tried the onboard video and nothing there as well helped.
Another observation is that even after only being on for a short time the RAM heatsinks were unusually HOT. Like not wanting to touch hot. Also the load lights on the RAM showed that whatever stick was in the inital slot 1 always was maxed out.
I have no clue what could be causing this other than possibly bad memory and/or cpu. I had to use a Stock CPU fan since my Zalman crapped out a few weeks ago along with my water cooling pump due to a power surge.
So if anyone can offer any insight please let me know. Thanks
