For the second time shutting down Vista has caused one of my sticks of memory to die, and result in a failed POST. I very rarely shutdown my system, so I'm not sure if this would happen every time, and I don't want to test that theory, but have any of you heard of anything like this happening?
The exact symptom is that I say to shutdown, and then the screen fades to the kind of dark overlay mode and just sits there for a while, the first time it turned off, but this last time I had to manually shut it off with the power button. After this when I turn it back on the 1 stick of memory is dead. One thing I noticed was that once I got it back up, it said it had completed installing updates, so it appears it may of hung installing some update, but not positive.
Could this be a mobo/bios issue, or what? I'm really hoping someone knows of this and has a fix for me. Thanks for the input guys.
My system specs are:
Q6600 G0 @ 3.0GHz w/1.24V
Asus P5K-E
2 x 1GB Crucial Ballistix PC6400 (now 1 gig)
eVGA 8800GTS 320MB @ 621/1005
Corsair 520HX
Windows Vista Business Edition
The exact symptom is that I say to shutdown, and then the screen fades to the kind of dark overlay mode and just sits there for a while, the first time it turned off, but this last time I had to manually shut it off with the power button. After this when I turn it back on the 1 stick of memory is dead. One thing I noticed was that once I got it back up, it said it had completed installing updates, so it appears it may of hung installing some update, but not positive.
Could this be a mobo/bios issue, or what? I'm really hoping someone knows of this and has a fix for me. Thanks for the input guys.
My system specs are:
Q6600 G0 @ 3.0GHz w/1.24V
Asus P5K-E
2 x 1GB Crucial Ballistix PC6400 (now 1 gig)
eVGA 8800GTS 320MB @ 621/1005
Corsair 520HX
Windows Vista Business Edition