Brian, This one is a toughy! I've yet to have trouble with Crucial RAM. Odd. Have you tried all the RAM slots? And, in different combinations; well what the book suggests? Like one in the yellow bank and one in the orange bank? Perhaps one of the slots you use has busted connections. Certainly Crucial will work with you on this. Or, should. Best, Duncan
At 13:34 08/26/2008 -0400, you wrote:
When I rebuilt my HTPC I used an AMD 780G motherboard (GIGABYTE GA-MA78G-DS3H), Athlon X2 4850e, and 2x2GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2 800. Ever since then I've been getting a lot of errors, bluescreens crashes and it's been a real beast to track down the root cause. I think I've pinned it down to the Crucial ram. With both sticks in, memtest86 crashes before it completes (doesn't give a memory error, just can't finish). But each stick passes with flying colors by itself. This is replicated in the computer's performance. With both sticks in, it won't last more than 8 hours without some sort of blue screen crash. With only one stick in it runs for days at a time with no issues. But of course it's dog slow with only 1 GB of ram in Vista. The RAM I used is on the manufacturer's compatibility list<http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/FileList/MemorySupport/motherboard_memory_ga-ma78g-ds3h.pdf>for the motherboard and are running at their stock speed and timing (DDR2 800 and 4-4-4-12) as well as voltage. Looking through the reviews on Newegg<http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=20-146-565&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=100&SelectedRating=-1&PurchaseMark=&VideoOnlyMark=False&Keywords=&Page=>there seems to be a lot of reports of faulty sticks, sticks dying after short periods of time and general quality issues. My question is, could this be something else causing the problems? Should I return both for replacement to Crucial? Just one? Will they even accept it when there doesn't appear to be any defects with the RAM? Or should I just cut my losses and get some Geil? ---- Brian
