could it be you gave'em a little static shock by mistake...?
that has done it for me when I was too careless w/my old 7100
a few years back....
later
E
> From: "Howie S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (SuperMacs List)
> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 14:20:48 -0700
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (SuperMacs List)
> Subject: [SM] Explain this one... please...
>
> I had 400 megs of RAM in my S900, two modules of which were 128meg DIMMS
> from Velocity, that I'd bought in May. I tested the RAM when I got it and it
> passed nearly 200 iterations in Gauge Pro, and TechTool. It seemed to work
> fine, few crashes, nothing out of the ordinary.
>
> I buy another S900, and divide all my RAM, so one machine now has 304 megs
> of RAM, two of which are those same two Velocity DIMMS. Crash, type 3, 2,
> 10, & 11, failures every minute. I test the RAM again, FAILURE! The Velocity
> DIMMS, or one of them at least, now fails early in the test phase.
>
> Explain that to me? I spent two days troubleshooting software and SCSI
> problems because I thought it couldn't be the RAM. It's the RAM, the same
> RAM I used for two months with no trouble in another machine.
>
> BTW, the motherboard RAM on the new machine tested fine. It's the Velocity
> DIMMS for sure.
>
> -Howie (banging head against wall)
>
>
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