I've had my brother's Abit FP-IN9-SLi go a bit rogue and I think it's killed the RAM I've used to troubleshoot it. I've never known such a problem before, so if anyone can confirm there's something dodgy going on here I'd really appeciate the input.
I've put 4x1GB sticks of Crucial Ballistix CL3 PC5300 2.2V and 2x1GB or Corsair XMS2.0 PC6400 1.9V into the FP-IN9 that're now suspected fried. I'm now troubleshooting the RAM in a variety of systems, currently an ASRock 775-4CoreDual-VSTA with an e6300. Here's a summary (since this is getting complicated!):
*3 of the 4 sticks of Ballistix refuse to POST in the ASRock motherboard (DRAM on 'high' voltage), 1 can boot into memtest and pass but shows only 512MB of 1GB. In my other test-beds the RAM fails to POST, though those were initial tests and tried with 2x1GB only. One of the test-beds was a Gigabyte 965P-DS3P in which all 4 sticks of Ballistix used to happily live and booted in 1.8V with no issues.
*The Corsair will boot into memtest and pass showing the full 2GB, but in both a Gigabyte G31 system and an Abit IP35-E system they show 512MB+510MB in the OS. I have another 2 sticks of the Corsair that're happy in the IP35-E, but these were bought separately, so may be different chips for all I know.
Just confirmation that anyone has experienced similar issues would be of great reassurance and a push towards RMA'ing these things...I've been stung by OcUK's returns found 'not faulty' fines policy before though, so want to be sure.
I've put 4x1GB sticks of Crucial Ballistix CL3 PC5300 2.2V and 2x1GB or Corsair XMS2.0 PC6400 1.9V into the FP-IN9 that're now suspected fried. I'm now troubleshooting the RAM in a variety of systems, currently an ASRock 775-4CoreDual-VSTA with an e6300. Here's a summary (since this is getting complicated!):
*3 of the 4 sticks of Ballistix refuse to POST in the ASRock motherboard (DRAM on 'high' voltage), 1 can boot into memtest and pass but shows only 512MB of 1GB. In my other test-beds the RAM fails to POST, though those were initial tests and tried with 2x1GB only. One of the test-beds was a Gigabyte 965P-DS3P in which all 4 sticks of Ballistix used to happily live and booted in 1.8V with no issues.
*The Corsair will boot into memtest and pass showing the full 2GB, but in both a Gigabyte G31 system and an Abit IP35-E system they show 512MB+510MB in the OS. I have another 2 sticks of the Corsair that're happy in the IP35-E, but these were bought separately, so may be different chips for all I know.
Just confirmation that anyone has experienced similar issues would be of great reassurance and a push towards RMA'ing these things...I've been stung by OcUK's returns found 'not faulty' fines policy before though, so want to be sure.