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jaysz

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Oct 20, 2013
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Ok so I ordered 2 x 16gb sticks from OWC, I get them put them both in and get a black screen
swap out the originals it works fine. After speaking with them, I try to put one of the new sticks
in and it works, add the second and it doesn't. Here is where it gets weird, I put old memory back
in and it doesn't work, swap the locations and it works fine.

I've built quite a few pc's and handled many sticks of ram, but I have no idea why it would
behave like that, both sticks were in the same 1 & 3 locations, installed all the way. Any idea
what's going on and if I can get the 2 new sticks to work somehow, thanks a bunch.
 
After doing a lot of switching and testing, I have pretty much come to a solid
conclusion that there is 1 bad stick, which really sucks as I don't really want to
wait for another delivery, c'est la vie.
 
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