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27th January 2009, 08:49 PM
|  | TST Enthusiast | | Join Date: Mar 2008, 289 posts. Location: Florida Reputation:  | | | Another Interesting Crucial Memory Case
I've had a bit of an anomaly with my new setup.
I recently purchased 3 gigabytes of DDR3 1066 Crucial RAM for my pc, and whenever I start up my PC, it gives me a strange message. It tells me that "The previous attempts at overclocking is failed" and that it is going to load some defaults in their place.
The weird thing is, I haven't overclocked a single unit of my computer. And I even went into my BIOS, and checked that my processor and RAM were all configured properly for their CAS timings, front side bus speeds, multipliers, and frequencies. The RAM is running at 1067, CAS latency of 6, my processor is at 333mhz x8 so it's at the default of 2.66Ghz...
I have no idea what's going on.
The only way I can get it to start up properly and load windows is if I power it on, receive that warning, and press Ctrl+Alt+Del as a hard reset.
If I don't do that, it tries to force me to go into the BIOS to fix the settings that are already at default. FFS, WHAT is going ON HERE!!?? 
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27th January 2009, 10:08 PM
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Try resetting the CMOS 
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28th January 2009, 09:41 PM
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Well, I've tried resetting the CMOS, but that hasn't changed anything.
So off a hunch, I decided I'd test the sticks one at a time. I had two sticks, a 2 gigabyte stick, and a 1 gigabyte stick. I remove the 1 gigabyte stick and it works just fine, no error messages, proper and prompt startup, etc.
And when I replaced the stick inside the system, it game me the overclock error message again.
So it seems that my 1 gigabyte stick is having issues playing nice with my system. I'm not terribly sure if there is anything I can do to fix the issue myself since it's a problem with the stick and not my BIOS. Time for an RMA and get a replacement chip?
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28th January 2009, 09:44 PM
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Are you sure your mb supports all that ram ??
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28th January 2009, 09:57 PM
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It supports up to and including a full 4 gigabytes of any given RAM for DDR2 667/800, and DDR3 800/1066. So 3 gigs shouldn't be a big issue to it at all. It's just a faulty part of the chip somewhere that's trying to overclock itself and failing, resulting in my error message.
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28th January 2009, 11:45 PM
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If electrical or mechanical any device can fail or falter anytime between birth and death.
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28th January 2009, 11:47 PM
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have you tried the 1GB stick on its own before you RMA it.
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29th January 2009, 08:16 PM
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I have tried it, yes. It won't even POST with the 1 gig stick on its own. And it was already suspicious just looking at the behavior with and without the 1 gig combined with the 2 gig.
It's definitely a faulty stick.
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29th January 2009, 08:34 PM
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Well you gve it a good telling off
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29th January 2009, 08:46 PM
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Right now it's getting a severe talking to. I've even laid it inside its original packaging, and it's sitting on top of my RMA forms. It KNOWS it did something bad.
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29th January 2009, 09:12 PM
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Originally Posted by link590o  It KNOWS it did something bad. | Lmao
Sorry to hear that the one stick is bad. I hate RMAing stuff. At least newegg is good about it.
How come you just didn't get 2 x 2GB sticks? Would have been easier and you would have been in the dual channel mode.
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29th January 2009, 09:45 PM
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Originally Posted by link590o Right now it's getting a severe talking to. I've even laid it inside its original packaging, and it's sitting on top of my RMA forms. It KNOWS it did something bad. | Poor ram 
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30th January 2009, 02:28 AM
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Originally Posted by samjohnson Lmao
Sorry to hear that the one stick is bad. I hate RMAing stuff. At least newegg is good about it.
How come you just didn't get 2 x 2GB sticks? Would have been easier and you would have been in the dual channel mode. |
Well for one, I'm running XP 32 bit. So I'd have been wasting a gig of my RAM. And for another, it was cheaper. I didn't have the money to order a full 4 gigs of the stuff.
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"Take now this Ring," he said, "for thy labours and thy cares will be heavy, but in all it will support thee and defend thee from weariness. For this ring is the Ring of Fire, and herewith, maybe, thou shalt rekindle hearts to the valour of old in a world that grows chill."
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30th January 2009, 04:04 AM
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How much did you spend? Ya I'm running 32bit also. Actually it sees 3.5gigs so only a half a gig is lost. 
I was gonna say I got 4 gigs for like $45. But then I remembered that you got some DDR3 which is a bit more expensive than ddr2.
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30th January 2009, 05:15 AM
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For all 3 gigs I paid about 75 dollars. It bumped up to $80.97 with the shipping fee. I thought it was actually quite a good deal considering the performance. But, of course a bargain like that can't be perfect all the time. Case in point, one stick defective.
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"Take now this Ring," he said, "for thy labours and thy cares will be heavy, but in all it will support thee and defend thee from weariness. For this ring is the Ring of Fire, and herewith, maybe, thou shalt rekindle hearts to the valour of old in a world that grows chill."
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30th January 2009, 05:29 AM
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Wow ya another gig would probably put it over 100 bucks. And now you gotta pay for the shipping for the rma. hopefully your new stick will be all good though.
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17th February 2009, 01:29 AM
|  | TST Member | | Join Date: Jan 2009, 103 posts. Location: New Jersey, USA Reputation: | | | Crucial Information About Crucial!!
link - I don't know squat about squat, but I do know this about Crucial. When you send for your RMA keep after them or you may wait forever to get it. I finally gave up and wrote them a nasty note and the next day I got my go ahead via email. They are slow to respond and for all I know I'd still be waiting if not for the note I sent.
They are great about turn around time however and got my new RAM back to me 3 days after receiving my returned RAM.
Just that someone in that authorizing dept. either doesn't care or is unmotivated.
Hope your experience is different.
Good Luck!!
Regards,
Len
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17th February 2009, 02:56 AM
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Sorry you had all that trouble djlen, I know that can suck.
I can bet you that link590o got his memory from newegg though. And they are great on RMAing stuff.
Next time you buy a computer part I will give you a little bit of advice, if you live here in the US or in Canada buy from newegg.com best place around for anything computer.
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Facts are stubborn things, statistics are more pliable. Mark Twain
Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it. Mark Twain
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17th February 2009, 05:11 AM
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Originally Posted by djlen link - I don't know squat about squat, but I do know this about Crucial. When you send for your RMA keep after them or you may wait forever to get it. I finally gave up and wrote them a nasty note and the next day I got my go ahead via email. They are slow to respond and for all I know I'd still be waiting if not for the note I sent.
They are great about turn around time however and got my new RAM back to me 3 days after receiving my returned RAM.
Just that someone in that authorizing dept. either doesn't care or is unmotivated.
Hope your experience is different.
Good Luck!!
Regards,
Len |
I got way lucky in comparison in that case. I took a bit of extra time to send out my RMA forms because I kept forgetting, but when I DID send them, they arrived at newegg's place in under a week. And after that, they expediently looked at and confirmed my RMA. This all happened just a week ago. I got my shipping info a few days later, and my RAM is already somewhere in Hollywood Florida. So it's almost here.
So...er...yes, my experience was different and for the better. Sorry to hear that you had such a hard time.
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17th February 2009, 11:14 AM
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OK, I mis-understood something. I thought since the title of this thread is "Crucial Memory Case" that you got yours from Crucial as well. Sorry about the mis-understanding....lol.
Regards
Len
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