What are the chances of bad ram, twice!

It's not a question of whether it's new or not. What's the wattage output? If the output can't support the power requirements, you'll see the kinds of problems you're seeing.

neil_g wrote in post #7119099


i chucked my 2 sticks on the bed the other night, they still work..

That might be getting a little to intimate there Neil

joedlh wrote in post #7121147
It's not a question of whether it's new or not. What's the wattage output? If the output can't support the power requirements, you'll see the kinds of problems you're seeing.

Do you think a new 550W cooler master might be enough?
It's only got to drive an XFX 9600GT, a Q8200 on a P5KPL-CM, an LG DVD R/W, 2 x 1 GB of Corsair XMS2 ram and a single Seagate 250GB Sata HDD.

Of course if you had read my posts you would have noticed that I did rule out the power supply twice, once when it was tested by the supplier, and again by using only one RAM stick at a time

All that said, it appears that wearing an extra layer of nylons has helped, and the 3rd matched pair now seems to be working.
Memtest didn't find any errors after 5 runs though.

HankScorpio wrote in post #7119081
Not RAM, it's fragile stuff, doesn't like being dropped onto carpet either (stick 5).

got to something wrong with you then, i've miss treated ram in the past, it was stuck in a pot for a couple of months, it worked without error..

Have you tried running a big magnet up and down the stick about 100x each?

That'll definitely solve your problem!!

sorry moppie, sometimes i just like to lay amoungst computer parts..

BeritOlam wrote in post #7173669
Have you tried running a big magnet up and down the stick about 100x each?

That'll definitely solve your problem!!

???

are you thinking of magnets and hard disks?