Defective Ram Slot
Faulty Ram Slot Macbook Pro
Look for these sympthoms as they are an indication of a failing RAM chip, or a bad DIMM socket on the mobo. The system freezes up at random times during bootup: during POST; at the Windows logo; just before login screen; right after login; System turns on, and stays on but never even reaches post; Note that read/write memory errors are not on the list here. Very few (mostly dirt cheap models) motherboards have only one RAM slot available. Most of them have 2, 4 or 8 — an even number. But what if you tried installing 3 sticks into a 4-slot motherboard? Missing RAM: Windows might show that you have less RAM than you actually have seated. This can usually be solved by re-seating the RAM or switching the slots the RAM sits in, but if not, this could indicate that you need a replacement stick.
Faulty Ram Slot Symptoms
- Explained simply, RAM is your computer's short-term memory, which it uses to work on its current task. However, like any computer part, even the best RAM can break, so you'll want to know how to.
- Unfortunately, if the RAM in your Mac is faulty, those faults can sometimes persist undetected for a while, only to crop up unexpectedly and result in a crash, hang, or other unwanted behavior.
Faulty Ram Slot
My hardware specs are below:
RAM - 2X MEM-DR380L-HL02-EU16
Mobo - X10SAE with latest bios
CPU - Xeon® E3-1265L
I finally had a chance to put the system together last night but unfortunately I was greeted with four long beeps and no post upon powering up. This was following Supermicro's recommendation of populating the blue RAM slots. Further reading only revealed that it might be a RAM problem so I started testing the RAM one stick at a time, starting from the RAM slot farthest again from the CPU. The motherboard will not post when RAM is installed in slot DIMMA1 and DIMMA1 (two slots closest to CPU) but works fine with with slots DIMMB1 and DIMMB2 populated. I've been running memest86 in this configuration for the past 24 hours to see if there are any issues.
Could it be that the RAM slot is defective? The seller is sending me a replacement board ASAP so hopefully the replacement board works fine :)