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M4A79XTD EVO Ram slot broken?

rockleez

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I bought a ballistix 2x2GB 1333mhz early February and its been working fine since 3-4 months ago, blue screens and sudden freezing have been happening but as soon as i took out the one stick it worked fine, so i thought it was a faulty stick, but i put the other stick into the other slot, and it also didn't work with weird restarting problems.
Is there anything i can do?
Replace Mobo?

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Could be cpu memcontroller too. So need to try another cpu as well.

I'd start with CMOS clear....if you have not already.
 
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cadaveca said:
Could be cpu memcontroller too. So need to try another cpu as well.

I'd start with CMOS clear....if you have not already.
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is that just going into BIOS and loading default?... Sorry for noob questions lol im a new builder
 
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Clearing the CMOS means moving the jumper on the motherboard. Look in your manual. You can also just remove the battery for a few seconds to do it. Once done, make sure to go back into your bios and set everything back up, especially setting the RAM to it's recommended voltage, frequency and timings.
 
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erocker said:
Clearing the CMOS means moving the jumper on the motherboard. Look in your manual. You can also just remove the battery for a few seconds to do it. Once done, make sure to go back into your bios and set everything back up, especially setting the RAM to it's recommended voltage, frequency and timings.
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Setting the time is really mportant cause msn messenger base is connection on the bios time it seems. All the time i forgot to put the correct time in bios i wasnt able to connect on msn and YES even if i setted the clock correctly in windows
 
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MohawkAngel said:
Setting the time is really mportant cause msn messenger base is connection on the bios time it seems. All the time i forgot to put the correct time in bios i wasnt able to connect on msn and YES even if i setted the clock correctly in windows
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Good tip! A lot of things rely on the bios time, root certificates and stuff like that. :toast:
 
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