Possible Motherboard Memory slots broken

[jblanc03]

Can someone please confirm for me the following?:

I have a brand new 4gb stick of Gskill RAM. if i place this stick of ram in ANY of the Rampage IV Extreme Ram Slots, it SHOULD boot up correct?

I am only using one stick of ram to test the motherboard memory slots

am i RIGHT with this logic? Should it boot up fine and read 4gb total RAM regardless of where i stick it?

[Fantasy]

HalloweenWeed wrote:
Yeah I know, but this has been tested many times before this incident. Chino works closely W/Asus techs. He knows what he is talking about.

ooh. I see. my bad.

anyways it was a long shot. worth a try 🙂

as for the OP, i really don't know what else to add. I guess you just have to try and test each of your PC component separately.

good luck

[jblanc03]

wow!

i was hoping not to be insulted like that!

of course im using a 64bit os Win7 Ultimate x64


Please!

give me something that will help me! not insult me!



OK i finally removed my cpu and i looked VERY closely at the pins using a Magnifying glass and plenty of direct light to see clearly. As far as i can see. Nothing and i mean Nothing is bent or out of place. Everything looks perfect. The only thing i noticed was on the back of the cpu on the upper left corner the contacts look alot darker than the rest. Sort of like it got hot over there more than the rest of it. but other than that everything looks fine.

Im leaning towards my motherboard.

any other suggestions?

[HalloweenWeed]

Are you posting from a phone? IDK why, but I've heard of phones double-posting every time.
I didn't mean to insult you, if you don't tell us then all we can do to help is bring it to your attention. We have not much idea of your expertise from reading this thread (until now).

I posted that bc I didn't have much else to say. But I have always thought, 'it would be very easy for a hair, however small it might be, to fall into a PCIe or SDRAM slot, and that would be very hard to detect or clear.' If it was small enough, it might just lay under the card edge, not affecting anything. Otherwise...

[jblanc03]

again, this computer has worked flawlessly for over a year untill now

and i as able to run a Real Bench with everything on optimized defaults and it got through the bench with no problem. Got a score of .ike 6250 or something of that nature. I did this with about 8GB of ram on the 2 RED DIMM slots.

If my CPU was the Culprit wouldn't it fail the benchmark or crash on me?

[HalloweenWeed]

jblanc03 wrote:
If my CPU was the Culprit wouldn't it fail the benchmark or crash on me?

Imagine a wire going from your memory to the CPU (actually there is about a hundred). Now imagine that wire is broken. It is broken whether it is in the CPU casing, CPU socket, RAM socket, and/or on the RAM itself. I'm not saying that is what has happened, just a remote possibility, for theoretical purposes to instruct you. If the wire is broken in the CPU, and you replace the mobo, it's not going to help.

Your CPU has many complicated systems (as you know), and one of them is the IMC - Integrated Memory Controller. The CPU MAY have systems to check the status of that controller, but if certain points break (burn up) in there, not all points are checked by the CPU self-test. Therefore, you can have a CPU that will not work with certain SDRAM slots, but will work fine otherwise.

As you might know, CPU architecture has changed a lot in the past decade, including moving the IMC from the Northbridge (chipset) to the CPU die itself.


That said, the problem is always more likely to be outside the CPU package.

[jblanc03]

the cpu contact pads on the back of the cpu just look a little more worn out on the top left corner compared to the rest. Thats what i mean by darker

[HalloweenWeed]

Hey, did you check the CPU socket screws? I found one a little loose once. You know, those Torx screws.
Also, did you change out the "X-socket" for a different cooler mount?
Don't tighten those Torx too tight either, that can cause (CPU-mem) problems.

[jblanc03]

HalloweenWeed wrote:
Hey, did you check the CPU socket screws? I found one a little loose once. You know, those Torx screws.
Also, did you change out the "X-socket" for a different cooler mount?
Don't tighten those Torx too tight either, that can cause (CPU-mem) problems.

you might be on to something here.

What are the TOrx screws you are referring to? could you describe exactly where they are located? I am using the Stock backplate for a 2011 socket and my waterblock is a Raystorm XSPC waterblock

[HalloweenWeed]

jblanc03 wrote:
you might be on to something here.

What are the TOrx screws you are referring to? could you describe exactly where they are located? I am using the Stock backplate for a 2011 socket and my waterblock is a Raystorm XSPC waterblock

This:

[jblanc03]

okay im back for a little bit.

I have been looking closely at my board and i dont see any dammaged circuits on the board leading to the CPU.

I am currently looking for that Wrench you mentioned. I remember what it looks like. But brainstorm with me here, what do you think happened according to the story i mentioned earlier of how this all started?