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Unread 11 Mar 2004, 18:25   #1
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Memory (oh woe is me)
Okey doke. ive had 512meg DDR pc2700 Ram lying about that i thought was unusable.

Due to my sheer lazyness however i did not send it back to scan within the 30 day period. (this memory was a replacement sent for other memory i returned JUST within the 12 month period)

So they informed me i couldnt get it replaced and that they could only offer some technical support on how to fix it.

Now.........


When i first installed the new memory and ran it alongside the current 512meg PC2700 RAm installed in the machine everything was hunky dorey. However when i ran GTA : VC windows would crash to the BSOD with a memory error.
Then after thinking 'maybe its just VC' i began running other more memory intensive programs and sure enough it would crash to BSOD.



So following the advice from Scan they told me that it could eb the memory timings when both modules were installed.

So i took out the current 512meg (that works) and put in the module that doesnt.
After some playing around with the speed and timings (i had to crank it up to 166mhz from 133(which is synced with the cpu)) it managed to boot into windows.

However no sooner had the desktop become useable it crashed to BSOD.

The following error :

Windows has blah blah blah blah blah lots of bollocks and shit written here :


STOP : 0x00000008E (0xC0000005, 0x805BCDBE, 0xEC11FBBC, 0x00000000)

Dumping physical memory to Hard Disk : (a little timer counting up )



So ladies and gents.

I originaly ran memtest86 on the memory and it didnt show any errors.
I could run it again but now im fearful of reinstaling the crap memory because upon turning the pc off and putting back in my good memory the pc refused to even show up the bios loading on the monitor. After a few brief moments of abject panic and the removal and reinstallation of the memory it decided to be a good boy and boot.....


SO


your opinions or suggestions....If you have any questions ask..

Cheers in advance.
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Re: Memory (oh woe is me)
Introduce the faulty memory stick to the garbage bin?
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Re: Memory (oh woe is me)
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Or give it to someone you don't like much.
I vote this.

If the stick is duff, then its duff.

However, do you know the exact timings on the "duff" ram, cos the rated timings might be set higher (looser) then your current mobo settings causing it to keep crashing.

posting the serial number on the actual chip wouldn't hurt either
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Re: Memory (oh woe is me)
i know the feeling. one of my 2*256 sdr sticks is faultyish. memtest86 at least claims it is. windows has the occasional wobby but doesnt force a reboot for me. just crashes some programs. which is... irritating half the time when you`re in the middle of something
actually had a rather amusing case of it "eating" the start menu and only the first 5 items appeared browing to the relevent folder in explorer, crashed it. it restarted itself and the whole start menu was there again. still the sooner i can get me some new ram the better
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Re: Memory (oh woe is me)
There's nothing you can do JJ - tbh I'm amazed speeding it UP made it more stable but there you go.
As for the other brief isue, I suspect the good memory probably didn't boot cos you either didn't install it correctly the first time, or the timings were messed up.

Anyway you got 2 options
1) Go to the website of whoever MAKES the memory (ie. www.crucial.com or whatever) and RMA it if it's still under warranty period - they won't know (and won't care) that it came as a replacement from scan, it's just dodgy ram so far as they know.
2) Roll with the afformentioned chuck in dustbin/give to someone you don't like/chuck in the dustbin of someone you don't like kinda suggestion.
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Re: Memory (oh woe is me)
it has

'Treme Technology' on it :/
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actually its xtreme.....heh
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Re: Memory (oh woe is me)
http://www.xtreme-technology.com/sto...&cat=25&page=1


it doesnt seem like the manafacturer site tbh
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