TeamGroup Vulcan Red Dead.

Dervious

Dervious

Dervious

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Stuck 2 x 4GB Vulan Red into a Gigabyte H81 board with an i5 4440 @ 3.1Ghz earlier today.

System fired up OK and I installed W7. Tested the GTX760 with Heaven Benchmark for a bit, carried out some Windows updates. Rebooted a few times, installed a couple of drivers, everything is looking good. Left the machine "Installing 32 of 53 updates.... don't switch off.......".

Came back 15 minutes later, PC is off. Press power, fans spin up, no output from monitor, machine shuts down after about 10 seconds, then comes back on, then goes off etc.

After clear cmos, remove battery, remove GTX760, testing with another PSU, same problem. Took a couple of sticks of Kingston out of another machine I`ve built, it boots OK and back into Windows. Flashed MB BIOS to latest version ("Improved stability"), and I was hopeful. Still the same problem with the TeamGroup RAM. I`ve just tried it in my Z77 board, same problem.

I knew I should have stuck with a brand that I know and trust ! (Unless anyone has any suggestions !) .
 
After much swapping of modules, it now works.

There's no obvious reason, as I'd tested this memory in my PC, then back in the new PC. It failed to boot (continuous POST bleeps for about 10-15 seconds, then the PC switches off and back on again).

Eventually it did work in my PC, so I tried it again in the new system. It worked. I`ve tried several memory settings in the BIOS (currently running it on XMP profile 1600Mhz with "performance" option enabled) and it seems fine. Left it running overnight and it's was still OK this morning.

One thing I did do last night, while it was playing up, was test each module individually in the Haswell system, both times the machine booted. When I fitted both modules together it failed.

What is always a concern in cases like this is that if I RMA and the memory tests OK, I'm likely to get it sent back.
 
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After my last post the system was extensively tested (completed windows updates, downloaded the two free games that came with the graphics card, left machine running for several hours on heaven benchmark etc). Before finally boxing up the system to deliver to the customer I did a final check.

Phone call from the customer this morning after unboxing and setting up the system. It`s not booting up and emitting several bleeps. I offered to pay a visit, but they told me not to worry. I then instructed them to remove one of the modules, but it still failed. I then got them to swap the single module over, which got the machine to boot.

The product description mentions something about harsh testing to ensure reliability. I knew I should have stuck with Crucial or Corsair !
 
Just returned from visiting my customer.

Took a spare 4GB stick with me to keep her PC running while the Vulcan memory is RMA'd. Before installing the temporary RAM, I replaced the "faulty" stick. Machine booted fine ! I still bought both sticks back with me to test. When put into my PC it failed to boot. I have now narrowed it down to one stick. Just hope it plays up when back at OCUK !

I don't mind getting the odd faulty component, it's intermittent faults I could do without !
 
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