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PC restart IDE controller shot?

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  • exup
    exup Posts: 1,235 Forumite
    after managing to get some time to have a good go, Stripped everything down and started from scratch with as basic a setup as possible. Finally narrowed it down to one of the RAM sticks (one of those with heat sinks on each chip).
    What made it more awkward was that it wouldnt do it with this stick in all the time by itself.
    Anyway - I put two sticks out of my other PC (which I upgraded the memory on) and everythings fine now . thanks again everyone
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  • Lil306
    Lil306 Posts: 1,692 Forumite
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    exup wrote: »
    after managing to get some time to have a good go, Stripped everything down and started from scratch with as basic a setup as possible. Finally narrowed it down to one of the RAM sticks (one of those with heat sinks on each chip).
    What made it more awkward was that it wouldnt do it with this stick in all the time by itself.
    Anyway - I put two sticks out of my other PC (which I upgraded the memory on) and everythings fine now . thanks again everyone

    Good on ya, that's why stripping it down to basics always works

    Consider using memtest on it to test out the memory, there are others but memtest is free.
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