ctheman Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 Last week one of my RAM modules died after about a year of use under stock conditions (never OC'ed). Was running flawlessly the entire time, then within two days it blue screened 3 times, the 3rd of which resulted in a failure to boot to Windows. I performed a fresh Windows install, it ran great for 2 days then locked up out of nowhere. This crash resulted to a endless reboot loop when making it to Windows loading progress bar. Took each pair of (2x512) out, transferred to different PC, same results. Ran 1 (2x512) pair at a time under memtest86 and isolated the problems to one pair, then repeated for the individual sticks of the suspected problematic pair. Memtest86 showed 1 bad stick, so I tried the other "good" pair in both PCs and it worked perfectly. Tried the bad pair by itself, and the crashes returned. It appears to be a pretty safe bet it has bought the farm... Settings: 2.60V 2-3-3-6 (Tried slower timings, no luck) Athlon 64 stock FSB (200 MHz) on both PCs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctheman Posted December 10, 2006 Author Share Posted December 10, 2006 To further clarify, I ran memtest86 for each ram module in each DIMM slot of 2 different motherboards with the same results. Results were independent of DIMM slot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted December 11, 2006 Corsair Employees Share Posted December 11, 2006 Let's get them both replaced. Please use the RMA request found in TSXpress or follow the link in my signature “I think I have a bad part!” and we will be happy to replace them or it! And please note that you are from the forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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