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Half my memory slots suddenly not working right...

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johnspack said:
Well thanks for the help guys. I pulled all sticks, scrubbed the contacts, blew out the slots, put it back together and voila all 32gbs working again. Bizarre, but makes me very happy!
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Contact problems, electron migration too
 
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More than that, age and degradation. I looks like my cpu is slowly dying... realized today I can't go back to 1866 ram speeds, it just boot loops. 1600 I can still stress test it and it passes. Was looking at used x99 stuff, and realized I can barely afford the ram, the mobos aren't bad used.. but the used desktop cpus are ridiculous. 400+us. I need cores for vms, but I would also like to game once in a while. Intel xeons are too slow for gaming.
I guess the next best thing is a used ryzen 1700 system for a fraction of the price. But then I have to find friggin samsumg b-die dimms for cheap. This is going to put me in the poor house either way....

I suspect it must be my cpu, so I just ordered a 1660 for 100 bucks. If it doesn't work it can just resell it!
 
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did you re seat the cpu#??
 
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I reseated everything. Time for a new cpu....
And I guess I'll be reseating it with the new cpu, 4.8 at under 1.35 I hope.
I guess I kind of wanted this since the 1680s just won't come down in price enough.....
And a Captain doesn't let his ship go down... he does everything in his power to keep it afloat and fighting....
 
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Got my new/used 1660 today... so far up to 4.5ghz and all 32gbs ram at 1866 still. It's looking like a fix. I did clean the contacts of the new
1660 just to make sure. It's just behaving much better than my old 1650, so I guess I fried the imc somehow. Using much lower voltages this time,
but this cpu doesn't seem to need as much.....

Back up to 4.7ghz now and very stable. Love this 1660 cpu with it's full 15mb l3 cache, it's beating my old 1650. Going to try 4.8 and then 5ghz.
I may have finally got the golden sample I was looking for.....

Never mind... it just walked up to 4.8ghz and I just bested every bench I've done. I can see why this cpu cost 1100us at launch....
Nope, 4.9....

https://valid.x86.fr/l082ku
 
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That half of the DIMMs were not properly registered and that they were on the same "side" of the CPU was the dead give-away from the OP.

Glad everyone figured it out.

High(er) impedance path(s) can be enough to skew signals sufficient to cause non-operation.
It's why we match impedance, for example termination impedance.
Likely the pin walked to the edge of the pad and was making only marginal contact.
Thermal cycling can do some funky stuff.
 
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