Ram acting all Strange!

[haGGard]

Hi!

Folowing on from this thread i made a few days ago...

http://www.techist.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=78137&pagenumber=1

I reformatted my computer hopeing it would solve all the slowness and spiking of the CPU. It didnt.

So i removed the ram (2 x 512 sticks) and cleaned it up a bit (not that it was even very dusty) and replaced only 1 stick back in. I booted up the PC and hey-presto, it worked fine again. I then put the other stick iin with it and again, it was running fine again, no more slow computer or cpu spikeing.....or so i though...

The next morning i booted her up again, and its back to being all slow again, with a spiking CPU. So AGAIN, i took the ram out and replaced it. It didnt work this time, so i did it AGAIN, and this time it worked.

And guess what, this morning i boot up the computer and its all slow AGAIN.

What do you guys this the problem is? I would really appreciate the help!

Cheers

 

[Nitestick]

i'm interested to know how you cleaned the RAM. do the usual, run memtest86 for a few hours to test the RAM.

 

[WorldIndustries]

Haha. How DO you clean RAM? All I know is you clean the contact points with an HB eraser...

 

[haGGard]

All i did was wipe the dust away with my finger tips

But it still doesn't explain why its behaving like this...

 

[WorldIndustries]

But shouldn't you avoid touching the RAM at all, other than handling it by the edges? I'd imagine the static electricity rule applies to RAM too.

 

[Sui]

All i did was wipe the dust away with my finger tips

LOLOL

I'd imagine the static electricity rule applies to RAM too.

Yeah, Ram is one of the most static sensitive things inside a computer, if not the most.

 

[Nitestick]

lik sui said, ram is very sensitive to static. so unless you were electrically grounded while you wiped the dust away with your fingers you may have complicated things.

 

[haGGard]

I used a static electricity wrist band while wiping it...

But it doesn't explain how it would start doing this before i'd even touched it...

 

[Nitestick]

well you didn't damage it with static then. try running the sticks individually. run memtest86

 

[Zerohero2]

I heard a rumor once that with a Gigabyte of Ram installed you may need to change jumper settings on your motherboard.