pro_hz
06-13-2008, 12:48 PM
Hi Friends, I've recently upgraded from an e6550 to an e8400.
The system ran perfactly fine for two days with the new CPU @ stock settings and the CPU temp was idling around 47c. But yesterday while I was listening to some mp3s, the system froze up all of a sudden and I had no other option but to hard reset. Worse, the system won't bootup (no post, no display) :jawdrop: . I almost had a feel like I lost the board, tried clearing the CMOS - nothing. Then I remembered that something similar happened once when my RAM died. So I took my pair of CM2X-2048-6400-C5-DHX off and tried only one stick, it booted up :-D . Then I set the BIOS to my prefference, saved it, rebooted into windows and then shut it down. Being curious to know what went wrong, I put the stick back to where it was and started the computer up. To my surprise everything went normal, like nothing happened at all.
So I resumed my playlist and went back to what I was doing. After a few minutes, or an hour it locked up again and wouldn't boot. I repeated the same process - took one stick off, rebooted, shut down, put the stick back, but this time the system wouldn't boot. I put the stick in another slot and it worked, only one stick in the "not seem to be working" slot and it didn't work.
I used to run my sticks in the white slots. But since one white slot "died", I'm running them in the black slots, which seem to be working fine till now.
So now should I come to a conclusion that my slot just died, if it is what could be the possible reason, is it the processor to blame ? Please help here... :help:
Here is my system-
1. Motherboard : XFX 680i-LT BIOS-P07
2. CPU : E8400(stock speed), voltage: core-1.2v, FSB-1.2v, RAM-2.0v, SPP-1.25v
3. RAM : 2GB CM2X-2048-6400-C5-DHX, @800mhz-4-4-4-12
4. Graphics : XFX 8800GT-XXX (stock)
5. Storage : 2 * WD-SE16-3200AAKS
6. Power supply : Cooler Master iGreen Power 500w
The system ran perfactly fine for two days with the new CPU @ stock settings and the CPU temp was idling around 47c. But yesterday while I was listening to some mp3s, the system froze up all of a sudden and I had no other option but to hard reset. Worse, the system won't bootup (no post, no display) :jawdrop: . I almost had a feel like I lost the board, tried clearing the CMOS - nothing. Then I remembered that something similar happened once when my RAM died. So I took my pair of CM2X-2048-6400-C5-DHX off and tried only one stick, it booted up :-D . Then I set the BIOS to my prefference, saved it, rebooted into windows and then shut it down. Being curious to know what went wrong, I put the stick back to where it was and started the computer up. To my surprise everything went normal, like nothing happened at all.
So I resumed my playlist and went back to what I was doing. After a few minutes, or an hour it locked up again and wouldn't boot. I repeated the same process - took one stick off, rebooted, shut down, put the stick back, but this time the system wouldn't boot. I put the stick in another slot and it worked, only one stick in the "not seem to be working" slot and it didn't work.
I used to run my sticks in the white slots. But since one white slot "died", I'm running them in the black slots, which seem to be working fine till now.
So now should I come to a conclusion that my slot just died, if it is what could be the possible reason, is it the processor to blame ? Please help here... :help:
Here is my system-
1. Motherboard : XFX 680i-LT BIOS-P07
2. CPU : E8400(stock speed), voltage: core-1.2v, FSB-1.2v, RAM-2.0v, SPP-1.25v
3. RAM : 2GB CM2X-2048-6400-C5-DHX, @800mhz-4-4-4-12
4. Graphics : XFX 8800GT-XXX (stock)
5. Storage : 2 * WD-SE16-3200AAKS
6. Power supply : Cooler Master iGreen Power 500w