Bluemage Wrote:Update: Today, it decided (for kicks and giggles) to die again!Odd. XP I believe will run on 3x1GB, of cause that's with dual-channel off. I've never thought of testing that as I only have ever run 2x1GB dual-channel, with varying speed sticks. Now featuring OCZ DDR2 PC2-9600 Reaper HPC Edition sticks
I tracked the problem down to one of my RAM sticks, which had liberated itself from its heat spreader, and refuses to function. Now, I'm stuck with 2GB of RAM for the next week, because my dual-channel setup will POST, load Windows, pause before bringing up the login screen, and then go back to POSTing in an infinite loop if I try to run on all 3 working 1GB sticks.
Quote:(By the way, have you ever tried to remove a RAM stick that's conveniently located behind a GPU brace (2'' wide strut running up the length of the case)? It's not fun.)No, but I've had to do so with sticks hiding under a power supply or in the gap of powersupply & drive blocks or with one end hard up against the graphics card...... I didn't think there is an aftermarket case with a non-removable GPU brace. Hey is your main desktop a Dell XPS?
--Rod.H