Questions about replacing corrupt Ram & other parts

ThrashZone · 19 Aug 2018

Hi,
Where did you buy the memory from ?

Geosammy · 19 Aug 2018

I'm not sure if you have New Egg in the UK, but you can sometimes find good deals on DDR3 there.

Even so, anything built or purchased today. Will be much faster then what you currently have.
You can take a look at PC Parts Picker's System Builder.
To give you some ideas on where to get started and what the cost might be.

mswin10 · 19 Aug 2018

Thanks guys. I remember that I purchased the pc components from amazon, but the memory was from a local pc shop which has closed down a few years ago.

I can assure you that the fault was definitely one of the chips and not the motherboard as I've swapped the healthy ram and placed it into dodgy ram slot and pc still runs fine.

I'll have a look at the prices to see if I could find something better. But I would be grateful if someone could tell me what pc components today would be similar to my spec. This will give me a starting point to work with.

Geosammy · 19 Aug 2018

mswin10 said:

Thanks guys. I remember that I purchased the pc components from amazon, but the memory was from a local pc shop which has closed down a few years ago.

I can assure you that the fault was definitely one of the chips and not the motherboard as I've swapped the healthy ram and placed it into dodgy ram slot and pc still runs fine.

I'll have a look at the prices to see if I could find something better. But I would be grateful if someone could tell me what pc components today would be similar to my spec. This will give me a starting point to work with.

@mswin10

I've had a look at your system specs and it's not so bad after all.
The AMD chip is a little outdated, but it's six cores.
If you can find a set of RAM that isn't very expensive.
You would still be able to use this system as you have been.

Then you can do some research, into possibly purchasing or building a newer system.
As I said, check out the PC Parts Picker's System Builder.

mswin10 · 19 Aug 2018

Thanks geosammy. That's really appreciated. I'll have a a look at pc parts picker and will let you know how I get on.

Thanks everyone for your input.

Geosammy · 19 Aug 2018

mswin10 said:

Thanks geosammy. That's really appreciated. I'll have a a look at pc parts picker and will let you know how I get on.

Thanks everyone for your input.

No problem.

I feel, that if you get yourself a new set of Ram.
Things should be back to "normal".
As long as you don't encounter any other failures.

Just keep in mind, that you won't be able to reuse DDR3 in a new system.
So don't get expensive RAM.

mswin10 · 19 Aug 2018

That's great George. Really appreciate your help. Thanks again.

Geosammy · 19 Aug 2018

mswin10 said:

That's great George. Really appreciate your help. Thanks again.

Good luck and let us all know how it works out.

bobkn · 19 Aug 2018

mswin10 said:

But I've got no proof of purchase or even remember the time I bought everything.

I checked the Crucial warranty. It not transferrable, so they may require documentation to prove that you're the original purchaser.

Looks like you can pick up 2 X 8 GB DDR3 1600 for about £100 including VAT from Newegg in the UK. That would be much less than any major upgrade (motherboard, CPU, RAM). I hope that it's the RAM that is defective, rather than the motherboard. A simple check would be to place the "good" RAM stick in the DIMM socket where the "bad" stick was. (I'm sure that Biostar has a recommended slot for a single RAM stick, but it ought to boot OK if the stick is elsewhere.)

Bree · 19 Aug 2018

mswin10 said:

...I'm not willing to place it back in the motherboard as I've already lost a lot of data.

If you put it back to test if it just needed reseating you don't have to run Windows to test it.

The 'auto installer' for MemTest86+ will make a bootable usb which you can use to run extensive memory tests. It may well confirm the chip is bad, but if it passes after reseating it then you'd save the expense of an unnecessary replacement.

Memtest86+ - Advanced Memory Diagnostic Tool