So. Here's the deal.
I [about a month ago] purchased the Corsair XMS Dual Channel [1 gig x2 512's]. It's been working great, until tonight [I'm using a different comp to write this]. I was playing WOW, when my video card acted up (a 9800 pro which has been working great for months). IT freaked out, so I restarted my comp, and all was good. I installed my new ATI Video drivers with little problem, but then the install fked up. I restarted again, and it gave me some errors, so I turned my comp off. I few seconds later, after letting the RAM Clear itself, I turned it back on.
It gives me this:
Main Processor : AMD 2800+ Barton


and nothing more. It stops there. Normally it says, RAM testing OK and what not, but it didn't. I swaped out my Video card with a 100% working 9600, same problem. I'm [guessing] it's my RAM. Before I go through the hassel of RMA, any ideas? Opinions? IS this a RAM related issue? Or is there something else I can try?..-_-
specs: AMD 2800+ Barton, 1 GIg of corsair duel channel XMS, 9800 Pro, 80gig Maxtor RAID HD, MSI K7n2 Delta2 Platinum mobo.
I have sufficient cooling, and have been running the thing consistently for a few days with no problems. Maybe it fried?... I have no idea. I have at least 4 well working fans, and my processor has a thermal take full copper heatsink. Even the RAM's have their own heatsinks.
-_- PLEASE HELP!

hi.

In my experience with these problems. I would go back into your BIOS and see if putting it to "safe deafults" on and see if it boots up.

Do you have fast boot up enabled? If so it wont bring up your ram testing anymore.