ballistix dying

Flibster said:
Tested it at work *quiet day...*- 3 different machines - 1 stick in each
2.8v - everything else at auto - only running at 200mhz not 250mhz.
Temperature on 2 was roasting - 1 was reasonably cool.

1 has run thorugh memtest 5 times at 200mhz so I'm willing to try that one in my pc at home now.

Not a happy person.

Simon/~Flibster
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I had similar instability with my 512Mb sticks until I actively cooled my sticks.

I just do not understand why Crucial advises to run at 2.8V when at stock speed 2.6V is enough and more volts only increases the chance of errors :confused:
 
Just received this email from Crucial in response to a few quesitons about these flakey 2gb dual kits.. the first email I received skated around the quesitons, so I sent them another...

The reply

Thanks for your reply.

Sorry for the confusion with my last mail.

Crucial are currently looking in to this product, due to a slight increase on
returns and have not therefore clarified any known issues.

We do not offer the 1 Gig modules as mentioned previously however will have an
inventory to support returns as per normal with any product that becomes end of
life.

If you require further information on this please reply to this mail.

Kind regards



JAMIE SANDFORD
Customer Sales & Support Agent
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So as long as they have sufficient inventory, I think I will be happy returning any defective ones I get.. its worth a try for their price/performance is unbeatable...
 
Read a few posts here regarding people being unable to get stable 1T settings; i've run mine at 2T at start (partly due to my earlier BIOS version not offerering the option) and am now running at 280x10 1:1 at 2T - yesterday I thought after updating my BIOS a week or so ago I would change to 1T settings. However, I can not get it stable past 220x10 without having problems getting into Windows etc. It does (touches wood) seem pretty stable though at 280 and 2T setting; is the memory on way out or have I simply got a set that don't like 2T?

Appreciate help - thanks.
 
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Would someone with a Ballistix 2gb kit and a Opteron 146 clocked please post a picture or link to a image of their A64 Tweaker as have messed with mine and would like to compare and duplicate someone who has good stable settings.

Many thanks
 
i don't get it, how come these sticks are so badly defective? also are other ballistix sticks effected like the 512mb and 256mb sticks?

i know that the value sticks are fine since i have purchased around 17 sticks of value ram from 256mb to 1gb sticks for client machines and none have been defective.
very odd problem this.
 
Cyber-Mav said:
i don't get it, how come these sticks are so badly defective?
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Hi,

well that's a good question. It seems from time to time some bad components get *massed* produce and make it into untold products. The defective component could be anything from hard-disk platters, capacitors, memory chips etc etc. Same things happen in all large industries, cars are released with defective airbags or onboard circuits, TV's that overheat and catch fire, Microwaves that can explode, the list is endless!

Really there should do mega testing on these things, but as always its a money matter to get a product out to market so that the manufacturers can recoup costs (R&D etc), so the notion of recalling an entire product line is enough to make the firms accountants have heart attacks!

In the case where a product is discovered to be faulty and have possible risks to human life then the manufacturers have no choice but to issue an offical *Recall*. The cost of this recall would be small compared to law suits against said companies for loss of life or serious injury caused. . .

So meanwhile back on planet overclockers, I suspect a large batch of defective memory chips (or IC's) made it onto the product line and was sold to all the people in this thread :)

I bought 1GB(2x512) of Ballistix PC3200 and 1GB(2x512) of Ballistix PC4000 in August 2004, both sets have been working well up until recentley. The Set of PC3200 has been RMA'ed successfully and it looks like I may have to RMA the set of PC4000 as well. . .

This is very unlike Crucial, there brand name has always stood for *stability*

P.S: My cases are quite cool so none of my sticks have ever run *hot* (warm to touch at full memory load) and I have always undervolted them (2.7vDimm on average, this was the OFFICIAL spec when I purchased them). When I did detect errors using memtest I of course whacked the voltage up to the recommended 2.8V but this only made the errors worse :eek:

Hehe anyway that which does not kill us makes us stronger, I just could have done without this issue during my transition from an INTEL platform to AMD 939 :D
 
I finally had enough today; almost £200 worth of memory and wont even go above 220x10 at 1T, regular BSOD's and so forth - have rung Overclockers and am RMAing.

Have to say that if Overclockers keep to there promise on the telephone I will be really impressed.
 
I have 2x1Gig Ballistix.

£190 worth of memory. It died after about 3-4weeks of use.

I put one stick in and it didn’t even make it to the first test in memtest86 before the machine died. The second stick made it to the 7th or 8th test and then critical errored. All stock volts and memory timings.

I bought mine second hand from someone on this board so I would like to know: do you phone crucial on their 0800 number or email? If so what do they ask you? Obviously i dont have a reciept so i need to know what to do to get that RMA.
 
frustin said:
I bought mine second hand from someone on this board so I would like to know: do you phone crucial on their 0800 number or email? If so what do they ask you? Obviously i dont have a reciept so i need to know what to do to get that RMA.
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Try to get the order number.

When I called Crucial I had to give my order number and that's it, I did not need an invoice and I even changed my address as I moved since buying the memory, again this wasn't a problem.
 
frustin said:
what if it wasnt ordered from crucial or ocuk? what if the person i bought it from bought it somewhere else?
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I have no idea, I think that there is a lifetime guarantee but that that only applies to the person that has bought it, not if you buy it 2nd hand :confused:
 
malccy said:
I finally had enough today; almost £200 worth of memory and wont even go above 220x10 at 1T, regular BSOD's and so forth - have rung Overclockers and am RMAing.

Have to say that if Overclockers keep to there promise on the telephone I will be really impressed.
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What did they promise you?

Got another set in my XP64 machine and thats gone flakey over the weekend. :mad:

Thinking of returning and getting some gskill instead...

Simon/~Flibster
 
I think my 2GB set is going out the window got a blue screen when playing EVE and Total Annihlation. I slaped an temp probe on one and while playing Battlefield 2 they set the alarm off which was set at 45oC running at 2.8V, 2,2,2,5 1 T
 
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First set of Ballistix and loving them. These came from OcUK and are from a batch i haven't heard anything bad about yet. 6x.xx. It was the 5x.xx batches that were having trouble so, until i hear of a 6x.xx set failing, i'm going to stay optimistic :D
 
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