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well this is a quick story i though i'd share smile about my computer and the 4 hours i spent mind boggled trying to figure out how to fix it.


so i was happily playing counterstrike: source when BAM! my computer crashed (which isn't normal at all, first time it crashed actually) so i restart it, and the computer itself turns on but my monitor isn't detecting my computer, so as any computer savvy person would do i went to look at the most obvious problem, i unplugged my monitor cords replugged em, no response, so i decide i should unplug my monitor cord from my GPU and just try on-board, i did and, no response, so now I'm freaking out wondering what the hell went wrong, i unplug replug every thing at least 20 times and repeatedly restart my computer to no avail.

so i scour the internet for my problem (on another comp of course) and i come across a few unhelpful forum posts, then i finally found one i hadn't tried, but it didn't sound really related at all, but i still tried it, i had recently bought some extra RAM and the forum post said switching RAM out worked for him, so i tried it and as bizarre as it sounded it worked so now im happy and pissed, Happy because i got my pc working again but pissed because now i gotta go through the refund process for my RAM.

but im still wtf-ing about how that correlates... anyone wanna explain? lol

Bad sectors on RAM = instant bsod when they come across them most of the time.

It could also be not enough power supply (unlikely), since you just added more ram.

It could also be your original and new ram have different voltages and/or have different timings, so without underclocking or overclocking one or the other (which isn't usually recommended), one isn't getting enough, or the other is receiving too much power. Or because of different timings they might not be able to communicate to each other very well.

Back in the day it used to not really matter too much about mixing together ram from different vendors, but nowadays a lot of ram is actually specced slightly differently, so they don't work too well with other vendor ram unless they were specced exactly the same. RAM is really picky on how it works nowadays.

This is all assuming you just bought new ram and put it in (which it seems like from what I read.)

@immy, Not sure exactly why it would do that without myself being there to troubleshoot it. It seems more than a little complicated(at least not obvious) on the why it wouldn't start up.