Here's the situation.
I bought 1GB (2x512MB sticks) of G.skill 2-3-3-6 RAM last week.
I ran it for about 8 hours, general use (web surfing, windows use, no gaming), when my PC crashed, after being for solid stable for weeks.
After experiencing the same thing with the memory it was supposed to be replacing (Crucial Ballistix PC4000), i ran Prime95 blend test. It failed within 3 minutes. Swapped my memory back to the 3 years old OCZ PC3200 i'd been using in the mean time, ran Prime95 blend for 2 hours, and not a hitch.
So, i tried it in my media PC (all components in this PC are less than 1 months old). 14 minutes later, fails. Swap to the OCZ memory, and it's fine.
To confirm it, tried it in my father's PC. Prime95 blend again, and 3 minutes later it failed.
So 3 PCs, 3 failure, 1 set of new memory, 1 set of 3 year old memory.
You might ask why i didn't run memtest86. Well, the reason is that my Ballistix Ram passed hours of memtest without a hitch, yet Prime95 still failed in minutes.
Specs:
My PC:
A64-X2 3800 (S939)
MSI Neo 2 platinum
Media PC:
A64 3000+ venice
Gigabyte K8N51PVMT-9 (GeForce 6150/MCP430 chipset)
Father's PC:
Athlon 2500+ (mobile Barton)
Abit NF7-S
So, with me 100% certain my memory is faulty, i set about RMAing it. Today, it turns up marked no fault found. I now have £70 of useless memory, and £11.30 in postage and testing charges out of pocket.
So, how can my memory not be faulty, when it makes 3 totally different PCs unstable?
PS. My ballistix memory is about 18 months old, and produces identical results to the G.Skill in all three PCs with Prime95.
Help please. I've had a bad enough month as it is without this too.
I bought 1GB (2x512MB sticks) of G.skill 2-3-3-6 RAM last week.
I ran it for about 8 hours, general use (web surfing, windows use, no gaming), when my PC crashed, after being for solid stable for weeks.
After experiencing the same thing with the memory it was supposed to be replacing (Crucial Ballistix PC4000), i ran Prime95 blend test. It failed within 3 minutes. Swapped my memory back to the 3 years old OCZ PC3200 i'd been using in the mean time, ran Prime95 blend for 2 hours, and not a hitch.
So, i tried it in my media PC (all components in this PC are less than 1 months old). 14 minutes later, fails. Swap to the OCZ memory, and it's fine.
To confirm it, tried it in my father's PC. Prime95 blend again, and 3 minutes later it failed.
So 3 PCs, 3 failure, 1 set of new memory, 1 set of 3 year old memory.
You might ask why i didn't run memtest86. Well, the reason is that my Ballistix Ram passed hours of memtest without a hitch, yet Prime95 still failed in minutes.
Specs:
My PC:
A64-X2 3800 (S939)
MSI Neo 2 platinum
Media PC:
A64 3000+ venice
Gigabyte K8N51PVMT-9 (GeForce 6150/MCP430 chipset)
Father's PC:
Athlon 2500+ (mobile Barton)
Abit NF7-S
So, with me 100% certain my memory is faulty, i set about RMAing it. Today, it turns up marked no fault found. I now have £70 of useless memory, and £11.30 in postage and testing charges out of pocket.
So, how can my memory not be faulty, when it makes 3 totally different PCs unstable?
PS. My ballistix memory is about 18 months old, and produces identical results to the G.Skill in all three PCs with Prime95.
Help please. I've had a bad enough month as it is without this too.
