IonNuke Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 I think I got a pair of chips where one of them went bad and the other is still working (hopefully). The other day I was working on some projects and my system decided to take a spill and reboot on its own. I thought it was a windows error until I got bombarded with a slew of bluescreen errors and one of them being Memory_Management STOP error. After alot of trial and error in the past 48 hours I found out that my harddrive wasn't the culprit. I did a scandisk with both ram modules in it and the harddrive reported to be full of bad sectors..... However when I decided to backup all my files, I decided to do another scandisk that would flag and fix the bad sectors. Next step I did a zero out and after that I cloned my HD with another partition that worked in my system. The cloning process worked, but boot up would lock after POST. My pair of CMX512-3200C2 worked fine in the memtest86 tests. I ran all 12 tests @ 40 passes that took 8 hours. So I left the chip that I suspected to be bad in my comptuer and proceeded to boot. It would lock in the bios, after POST, or reboot my computer when I got to windows login. All this was tested by switching memory banks. Now with the other chip in my pack of 2 chips, it booted fine and I was even able to get into windows to play some counterstrike to release my anger~~~. So with all this tests in the past 72 hours I think I have a bad CMX512-3200C2 chip that needs to be replaced.... What do you think??? Anyone?? please help :( I hate dealing with computer problems but oh well, we gotta live and learn. I might add that these chips came from a package of two being the TWINX1024-3200C2. The chip that's not working is CMX512-3200C2 XMS3202v5.1 0530108-1 dunno wut those numbers mean but that might help. Think I can get RMA replacement for faulty mem sticks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted May 22, 2006 Corsair Employees Share Posted May 22, 2006 Let's get them replaced, please use the On Line RMA Request Form and we will be happy to replace them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IonNuke Posted May 22, 2006 Author Share Posted May 22, 2006 I just have a slight question RAM GUY, do I ship back the chip that's suspected of being the culprit or do I ship both chips back since they both came in a package??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted May 22, 2006 Corsair Employees Share Posted May 22, 2006 If you have a TWINX1024-3200C2. Then you use a quantity of one and send both modules or they might Not be stable unless they match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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