can a bad memory controller damage memory ?

[Rock N Roll Rebel]

i finally got my system running great sense my upgrade it took me two months to fix it first had to replace the psu then the mb then the cpu because it had a bad memory controller. after that i had to replace the memory. i was wandering can a bad memory controller damage memory?

 

[exodusprime1337]

i would say it's possible, although to tell you the truth i don't see how.. have you manually set the memory settings and the like, are you sure it was the mb and cpu in the first place...

also are you overclocking??

 

[phanbuey]

i finally got my system running great sense my upgrade it took me two months to fix it first had to replace the psu then the mb then the cpu because it had a bad memory controller. after that i had to replace the memory. i was wandering can a bad memory controller damage memory?

No not at all AFAIK... a bad mem controller will just cause system gremlins and random blue screens blaming everything else.

99.9999999999999% of the time its the power supply/the mobo (the part of the mobo that regulates power to the chips) that causes fried chips.

Bad PSU's are notorious for burning out random components in a system. Memory is usually the first to go, but not always... motherboard follows shortly after that (like dead dimm slots, USB plugs etc). Then eventually random shutdowns (if the mobo is not dead already).

You can always get unlucky and just have some crappy ram sticks, and just not notice it until they finally decide to go south. Corsair just recalled a bunch of memory that went bad after a short time - high end ram tends to be unreliable like that.

 

[Rock N Roll Rebel]

No not at all AFAIK... a bad mem controller will just cause system gremlins and random blue screens blaming everything else.

99.9999999999999% of the time its the power supply/the mobo (the part of the mobo that regulates power to the chips) that causes fried chips.

Bad PSU's are notorious for burning out random components in a system. Memory is usually the first to go, but not always... motherboard follows shortly after that (like dead dimm slots, USB plugs etc). Then eventually random shutdowns (if the mobo is not dead already).

You can always get unlucky and just have some crappy ram sticks, and just not notice it until they finally decide to go south. Corsair just recalled a bunch of memory that went bad after a short time - high end ram tends to be unreliable like that.

the mem still worked it just had a lot of errors in memtest never could get it to run at 1066 just 800 it was corsair i replaced them with mushkin which runs good at 1066. my psu is fine but its possible that the old psu did damage to the ather stuff.

 

[Solaris17]

the mem still worked it just had a lot of errors in memtest never could get it to run at 1066 just 800 it was corsair i replaced them with mushkin which runs good at 1066. my psu is fine but its possible that the old psu did damage to the ather stuff.

ya i dont know about that mem controller i mean when it comes to actual chips im pretty sure their isnt any grey area its dead or its not...now however voltage circuits have grey area say one mosfet goes or one cap goes the others will pick up the slack as best they can. Im banking on it have being the psu something starts to get weak it will start surging and mobo's or anything that happens to be on it do not like surging its like lions...dont feed them the psu fed them and lost.

 

[phanbuey]

the mem still worked it just had a lot of errors in memtest never could get it to run at 1066 just 800 it was corsair i replaced them with mushkin which runs good at 1066. my psu is fine but its possible that the old psu did damage to the ather stuff.

You never know... maybe that memory went bad on its own, entirely possible. Maybe it got zapped with a bit of static on the way into the machine.

It *may*? be possible for a mem controller to kill the ram, since the memory controller signals when to refresh the ram... I mean if it goes totally ballistic and tells the power circuitry to refresh every picosecond? I dont know, never heard of a IMC killing a memory module so I stick to the usual suspects - which are, as Solaris said, power circuitry and PSU.

Solaris ti ruski?

 

[Deleted member 67555]

not all mem works correctly with AMD or Intel for that matter I don't think the IMC could cause the mem to go bad

 

[Rock N Roll Rebel]

thanks for all the replies guys. I'm glad i got it all working good now the last two months was a headache.