Topic: Bad RAM?
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Old May 1st, 2020, 03:10 AM
jmnew jmnew is offline
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Bad RAM?

I just purchased some Kingston RAM from Ebay. I installed it taking all the necessary precautions. When I turned on the PC it gave one long beep would not POST and was stuck in a never ending cycle of shutting off, restarting and then one long beep. After looking up beep codes on the internet I found that one long beep means memory or video failure. My video card seems to be fine. Could it actually be that the RAM is no good. I took out all the other RAM from the system except for the new one and the same thing happened. It is a 4GB module that only cost $17.00 with free shipping so I'm not inclined to send it back. Is there something else I could be overlooking? My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3. LGA 775. Also one other thing, I had a known bad piece of RAM and installed it alongside the other moduled and it did not give a long beep and did POST. However when I ran MEMTEST it did show up as bad.
Thanx
Jim

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