liz_frozen Posted June 17, 2006 Share Posted June 17, 2006 Last year I upgraded my Dimension 4600 with an extra GB of ram. 2 x VS512MB400's. All was well until I donated my original 256 or 512 or whatever that came pre-installed to a needy family member around Christmas time I began having random restarts, but not often enough to investigate the problem further. But then, the BSODs arrived. I re-installed WinXP... the BSODs continued. I thought I may have gone wrong with SP2. I re-installed again... it didn't even get through installation without crashing, or having write errors copying the initial setup files to RAM. I tried about ten times, no dice. On removing one stick of the RAM, it would only post (maybe) and then hang before even asking if I wanted to boot from CD. As soon as I swapped it for the other stick, everything went back to normal. I re-installed Windows and it has been running smoothly for two weeks, no restarts and no BSODs. Incidentally, I ran Memtest before trying to re-install, and on tests 18 and 20 there was one error each. It had been running 6+ hours before the first error occurred. With this prior knowledge, I was kind of shocked when everything went to hell so fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted June 20, 2006 Corsair Employees Share Posted June 20, 2006 Let's get it or them replaced, please use the On Line RMA Request Form and we will be happy to replace them or it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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