Watch that Memory Bank!

[pinipig523]

Just looking out for all you techimoers out there.

I re-installed my watercooling kit yesterday (consolidated the two radiators into 1 Black Ice Extreme II) and installed a dual 5.25 bay reservoir... and after the dust settled - it wouldnt boot.

I was afraid that I had crushed the cpu core with the swiftech mcw5000 waterblock. i checked everything, from the 9800pro being pushed all the way in to even reinstalling the cpu block to make sure it made decent contact.

nothing worked. i was just about to rip an athlon off one of my friends computer to double check my suspicions of a crushed cpu...

then, i looked the the memory slots.... the latch on one of the memory slots was a little pushed back (maybe 1mm back). i pushed it in just a little... and....

it booted!

so, before losing all hope.... check the ram! lesson of the day... push all ram in and watercooling is a pain, but a blessing at the same time.

[elroy]

I've had boards that would flex so much when installing a 2nd dimm module that the first dimm would no longer be seated in the slot in the CENTER. It was ok on the ends but not in the center of the dimm and then it wouldn't boot.