one stick of tripple channel ram not detected.

[kyle_L]

i plugged in my ram today that i bought off here and one stick is not detected. it is mushkin 998692, which was reviewed here. i have tried the stick in 3 of the slots on my mobo with the other stick installed and could never see more that 4gb, i have tried the undetected stick by itself and my computer will not boot, any sugestion on what to try. how long should i run mem test on the other stucks to make shure theres nothing wrong with them eather.

 

[gingerbee]

run memtest sounds like a dead stick to me

 

[stoanee]

Probably a dead stick. I have used lots of Mushkin with good results but the DDR3 kit I bought the other day has a bad stick also. Try each stick one at a time in each slot just to make sure.

 

[Iamcanadian7]

Flash your BIOS to the latest version, this has fixed issues like that numerous times for me.

If it still doesn't detect after the flash, then it's a dead stick.

 

[kyle_L]

i will flash the bios now and try the dead stick in each slot.

 

[kyle_L]

well i updated the bios and now 2 sticks are not seen.

 

[zoob]

Which board do you have? On the Rampage 2 Gene that I have, it instructs you to start filling up the RAM on a certain slot keeping the same colour. Also you may have to re-seat your CPU - sometimes if the pads aren't making enough contact to the LGA it will lose a channel for the RAM.

 

[kyle_L]

its the rampage 2 gene. there all in the same slot color, i will try reseating the cpu in a couple min.

 

[Arinoth]

Sounds like its not the ram itself but the compatibility of the ram and the mobo. For some reason the 1366 boards only like certain ram per board.