Can all ram sticks fail together?

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TinTinSnowy

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Hey guys. I have an old system (i5 4440) which I boot up occassionally for running virtual machines. It was working fine from years and all of the sudden it stopped working.

System is showing power but there are 3 beeps when it tries to boot. I suspect the ram sticks have gone kaput. I wonder how can all 4 ram sticks go kaput in one go. I tried with individual ram sticks running in different slot yet the same beeps. Not sure how to debug this?

Thank you
 
TheCoolerPlayer said:
Look up your motherboard's manual/support website online and see what the 3 beeps mean, it should have a table of error codes signified by beeps on boot failure.
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It says memory error. Memory not locked, incompatible or bad memory. I have ensured the memories are tightly locked into the slots, it's compatible and have tested for bad memory by just using one stick.

Edit: I don't have any spare ddr3 ram to test.
 
May be RAM slots are the culprit. Try these sticks on different motherboard. I once mistakenly bent one cpu socket pin while cleaning and one RAM slot became undetectable.
 
vishal_k said:
May be RAM slots are the culprit. Try these sticks on different motherboard. I once mistakenly bent one cpu socket pin while cleaning and one RAM slot became undetectable.
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I don't have another DDR3 system to test. I will use compress air on the ram slots and test.

Edit: Cleaning the ram slots with compressed air stopped the beeps. But am still not getting display.
 
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TinTinSnowy said:
I don't have another DDR3 system to test. I will use compress air on the ram slots and test.

Edit: Cleaning the ram slots with compressed air stopped the beeps. But am still not getting display.
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Reset cmos. I've had strange issues like that on my z77 board in the past.
 
Chaos said:
Probably the CPU's memory controller is kaput.
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I think so. A friend suggested to check if cpu pins are bent or this may be due to moisture.

Another system psu failed today. What a bad luck! 2 systems going down in a day.
zero_cool said:
If you are based in Navi Mumbai, you can use my spare DDR3 RAM sticks to test.
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Do you have a single 8GB/16GB DDR3 spare ram for me to purchase? I will put the maximum capacity in one slot which is working.
 
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TinTinSnowy said:
Another system psu failed today. What a bad luck! 2 systems going down in a day.

Do you have a single 8GB/16GB DDR3 spare ram for me to purchase? I will put the maximum capacity in one slot which is working.
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Damn thats horrible luck.

Single 16 GB DDR3 sticks are super rare and they made ECC ones only if I remember correctly.

I think you will have to settle for a single 8 GB stick.
 
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