Good Morning from my Robotics Lab! This is Shadow_8472, and today, I am going over the results of my gift as given last week. Let’s get started.
Meltdown! Within hours, my father’s new computer crashed, citing a problem with the RAM in slot 2. I may have touched some of the gold contacts when extracting/installing it, so I hope it’s still okay, if it was okay to begin with… I reopened the Asus computer’s case to see if it really was just the RAM all along.
I carefully pulled the four sticks from my tower (16 GB total), and installed them in the Asus machine, running Civ V in a debug, zero-player mode. The test ran for so long, I let it go all night, and came down in the morning all disappointed that it had still crashed in the same way. If anyone has any ideas, do make a comment here and let me know, please. The power supply and mother board are both candidates, but they each are a little more involved and/or expensive to swap out without knowing for sure what part is at fault.
Anyway, I pulled the Asus RAM from the new arrival and gave it back half, not including the suspected bad stick. The ‘bad’ half of the RAM, I have in my own tower and ran the Civ test. I didn’t get a full system crash this time; only the game froze and not the entire computer. Other than that test, the RAM itself hasn’t given me any problems.
I would like to test all 4 sticks together in my computer, and get the 4 total sticks (2 from Ubuntu MineCraft server + 2 from Father’s Mint machine) into the Mint machine and test that. Doing both of these at once would see me sending my RAM off to the server for uptime.
Time is a bit short around the holidays, so I think I will keep this post fairly brief. Final Question: From earlier, do you have any random ideas on what might be plaguing the Asus?