BillinDenver Posted December 2, 2004 Share Posted December 2, 2004 Hello RAM Guy, I believe I've got a bad RAM module. in March 04, I purchased a matched pair of VS256MB400C3 to use in a media center PC in my living room. A little bit later I acquired a similar pair of 512MB (x2) Value Select RAM for my Gateway 610S system. All seemed to work well until a week ago when I swapped the memory because I needed more in my living room. Immediately my Gateway 610 (with the VS256MB400C3) started crashing every now and then. After doing some system restores, I realized I might have some bad ram. I tried re-seating the chips and also swapping the slot (the Gateway 610 runs dual-channel). No luck, it still crashed. After consulting some friends and poking around this site, I downloaded Memtest-86 v3.2. Last night, after running it for a while (an hour or two), I had 10 different error reports on memtest (didn't write them down). At this time, I took one of the modules out so it would no longer be running dual-channel. I ran one of the modules for 73 passes over 8 hours and received the following error report: TST Pass Failing Address Good Bad Err-Bits Count 5 38 0000e48ca50 - 228.7MB fffffeff dffffeff 20000000 1 5 38 0000eb6e9b0 - 235.8MB fffffeff dffffeff 20000000 1 After that, I installed the other stick and it has been testing for over 13 hours with no problem. The Gateway 610 is not overclocked (nor do I think it can be). There are very limited BIOS settings. I believe it's been too long to try to return it to newegg.com. What can I do? How do I go about getting this replaced? Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted December 2, 2004 Corsair Employees Share Posted December 2, 2004 Please follow the link in my signature “I think I have a bad part!” and we will be happy to replace them or it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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