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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">My best guess, based on everything I've
seen here, is that the RAM is failing. You could replace it, but
that might be throwing good money after bad. It's possible that
the existing stuff will run for quite a while yet if you
underclock it. <br>
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On 12/17/2013 01:50 PM, Cprossu wrote:<br>
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DQS training failed on previous boot. Reverted to slower
dram speed.[/quote]<br>
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<div>I've seen that message before with ram that was
timed/clocked higher than it would reliably perform stock, it
being ADATA cheapie ram that makes me wonder.<br>
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<div>I'd still make sure your cmos battery is good though, but
until you have another issue, happy computing!<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 9:29 AM,
John-Thomas Richards <span dir="ltr"><<a
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<div class="h5">On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:16:09AM -0500,
Patrick Goupell wrote:<br>
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> On 12/16/2013 08:19 PM, Cprossu wrote:<br>
> >I see all the hard stuff has been discussed.
Make sure your cmos<br>
> >battery has the correct charge/isn't shorted,
I've had ECS boards<br>
> >refuse to post due to that before (it will be a
CR2032 lithium<br>
> >button battery on your motherboard between the
pcie and pci<br>
> >slots). If it still doesn't boot with a battery
swap, try the<br>
> >clear cmos jumper. Like others here I'd check
the few electrolytic<br>
> >caps on the motherboard (Actually scratch that,
report back of the<br>
> >solid caps that are installed on that board are
'through-hole' or<br>
> >not, I wonder if these are the badly made
'lytics from a while ago<br>
> >that were made to 'look like' solid caps), then
swap out the ram,<br>
> >then try another power supply. I'd try a video
card too for the<br>
> >heck of it, even if it's an older PCI one. The
good news is that<br>
> >if it is your motherboard, you can pick up
something fairly cheap<br>
> >(like $55) off of newegg or something (I'd
recommend like a Asus<br>
> >M6A78L-M Plus), and if it ends up being your
ram, 4gb of kingston<br>
> >ddr3 1333 is currently going for around $30.
Either way cheap fix.<br>
> ><br>
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> Was in the computer this morning.<br>
><br>
> Unplugged everything and inspected the motherboard.
Did not see<br>
> anything that looked like bad / leaking capacitors
(or anything<br>
> else).<br>
><br>
> Plugged everything back together and hit the power
button.<br>
><br>
> It came on with the following bios message:<br>
><br>
> DQS training failed on previous boot. Reverted to
slower dram speed.<br>
><br>
> So I don't know what the problem was. Will hope
that it doesn't come back.<br>
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A quick search on that error message suggests incorrectly
overclocked<br>
RAM, bad RAM, or a bad CMOS battery.<br>
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bow. Who is to<br>
say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow
tightens the string?<br>
Cyril Connolly, critic and editor (1903-1974)<br>
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