Soldato
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- 21 Apr 2003
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1) Check thoroughly (again!) that one of the two 4GB Corsair XMS3 modules has a consistent error in Memtest in any slot. Tick.
2) Check remaining 2 x 2GB sticks of identical looking XMS3 work fine. Tick.
3) Visit Corsair's website and set up the RMA. Tick.
4) Get surprised by how quickly an RMA number comes through. Think, oh well, I know it's late after a night shift and I should go to bed, but I'll sort this out now. Tick.
5) Double check which stick is faulty so I can label it.
6) Parcel up RAM, print label, visit Post Office. Job done! Tick.
7) Go home, start to get ready for bed, then think "maybe I'll put the 4GB back in now, and leave Memtest running while I kip." Tick.
8) Fire up PC again, watch Memtest start to run, turn round to... Eh?! Turn back. 6GB Total Memory?
9) Blind panic. Tick.
10) Rush back to PO, which is thankfully not very far away. Jump queue, but old dear on the 4th window doesn't remember me (from five minutes ago!) and I have to go back home for my receipt, which I'd forgotten in the heat of the moment.
11) Fetch receipt, queue this time... blummin' Ebay folk have come out in force by now. Old dear thinks I should have brought the stuff with me to swap there and then. Maybe I should, but I'm a bit paranoid about static in a public place, so I didn't. She has to unpeel the label & stamp and I head home again.
12) Home. Triple check that I'm sending the 8GB kit back and not the somewhat rarer 2GB+4GB kit Corsair may not recognise.
13) Back to PO, more Ebay related queuing, and finally, finally, FINALLY I get my RAM in the post. Though she does fret a bit about the extra 1g my additional tape has added to the parcel. Fortunately it still comes in at the same amount.
Given the £8.08 recorded delivery cost, and the hassle, it might have been easier to just buy the £40 kit on offer at the moment! Remind me never to sort out stuff like this at a time which is, by my biological clock, about 2 in the morning.
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2) Check remaining 2 x 2GB sticks of identical looking XMS3 work fine. Tick.
3) Visit Corsair's website and set up the RMA. Tick.
4) Get surprised by how quickly an RMA number comes through. Think, oh well, I know it's late after a night shift and I should go to bed, but I'll sort this out now. Tick.
5) Double check which stick is faulty so I can label it.
6) Parcel up RAM, print label, visit Post Office. Job done! Tick.
7) Go home, start to get ready for bed, then think "maybe I'll put the 4GB back in now, and leave Memtest running while I kip." Tick.
8) Fire up PC again, watch Memtest start to run, turn round to... Eh?! Turn back. 6GB Total Memory?
9) Blind panic. Tick.
10) Rush back to PO, which is thankfully not very far away. Jump queue, but old dear on the 4th window doesn't remember me (from five minutes ago!) and I have to go back home for my receipt, which I'd forgotten in the heat of the moment.
11) Fetch receipt, queue this time... blummin' Ebay folk have come out in force by now. Old dear thinks I should have brought the stuff with me to swap there and then. Maybe I should, but I'm a bit paranoid about static in a public place, so I didn't. She has to unpeel the label & stamp and I head home again.
12) Home. Triple check that I'm sending the 8GB kit back and not the somewhat rarer 2GB+4GB kit Corsair may not recognise.
13) Back to PO, more Ebay related queuing, and finally, finally, FINALLY I get my RAM in the post. Though she does fret a bit about the extra 1g my additional tape has added to the parcel. Fortunately it still comes in at the same amount.
Given the £8.08 recorded delivery cost, and the hassle, it might have been easier to just buy the £40 kit on offer at the moment! Remind me never to sort out stuff like this at a time which is, by my biological clock, about 2 in the morning.
</stupid_fool>
