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| 561365 | 2007-06-21 08:00:00 | Well .... after this one I'll move up to A-Data RAM. Good things NEVER come of buying $46 1GB DDR2-800 Ram...... Anyway, I built a computer yesterday, with 4x 1GB DDR2-800 RAM (Silicon Power) in an Asus P5N-E SLI board. When I put all 4 sticks in, it wouldn't boot, and I worked out that whenever there was a RAM stick in slot 2, it wouldn't boot (it hung at the BIOS screen, and would sometimes have random artifacts on the splash screen image). With any other combo it was fine, and would pass memtest. So naturally I concluded it was the motherboard and ordered a new one, which arrived today. I have set it up, but with 4 sticks of RAM in, it fails memtest, with errors between 2000 - 3000mb. Removing that stick (slot 3) makes it run fine, but swapping it with other sticks doesn't. This leads to a logical conclusion of two Asus motherboards in a row with identical memory faults. Unlikely to say the least. It does always boot fine now though (ie, it makes it into memtest). Any suggestions? I have one spare 1GB Apacer stick of DDR2-800 which I'm going to try now. Could horrible quality RAM give these symptoms, or could it perhaps be something else altogether. I would like to get this sorted ASAP. |
george12 (7) | ||
| 561366 | 2007-06-21 08:15:00 | It looks like I have TWO bad sticks of Ram out of four. Not very impressive. I had one fail three weeks ago, too, one of the Apacer ones. Is Transcend Jetram any good? A-data looks like my best bet for future use, but the Transcend is much cheaper. |
george12 (7) | ||
| 561367 | 2007-06-21 08:29:00 | Well run that suspect RAM in a fine PC and see if that errors if so it is the RAM which I suspect will be, because 2 ASUS boards with the same issue is a lot less likely that faulty RAM EDIT and BTW if you buy crap cheap brands to try save money you should be shot... :2cents: |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 561368 | 2007-06-21 08:49:00 | If it runs fine at 667Mhz is that a fairly good indication that its simply awful RAM? The cheapest price for it on Pricespy is $156 in GST, so I didn't really have any indication of whether it was cheap because it was low quality RAM, or just because my supplier had a very good price for it. Now I know. I don't have a PC that takes DDR2-800 unfortunately to test it in. |
george12 (7) | ||
| 561369 | 2007-06-21 08:57:00 | And what version of Windows, is on the hdd? If there's something on it. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 561370 | 2007-06-21 08:59:00 | I 'splashed' out recently (well its not often I can afford hardware) and got 2*512MB A-Data RAM (DDR-400). So far it seems to be ok, had no issues. I'm not sure how A-Data rates in the RAM scale of whats good and whats not, but it works fine :thumbs: |
Myth (110) | ||
| 561371 | 2007-06-21 09:00:00 | There's half a Windows install, it won't get through one with the memory problems. I'm running memtest86 from CD. Edit: All four sticks are in, running at 667Mhz instead of 800, and it's gone about 20% through a pass with no errors (usually the errors appear within 20-30 seconds, it's been fine for 20 mins). Can this mean anything but too low quality Ram? |
george12 (7) | ||
| 561372 | 2007-06-21 09:03:00 | If you're trying to install Vista the FAQ for this mobo says: Installation of Windows Vista is slow or unable to install when using more than 3GB DDR memory Answer Please use no more than 2GB DDR memory during installation and then go to the URL below to update Microsoft Patch KB929777 to solve the problem. Here (support.microsoft.com) |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 561373 | 2007-06-21 09:25:00 | I'm putting XP Home on this one. I've installed Vista on quite a few PCs with 4GB Ram though and never had problems. I might as well do it that way (only 2GB) in future though. Where's a good place to get A-Data DDR2-800 1GB Ram? Ur Computer, PCWorks and TasTech come up with good prices on PriceSpy, but do they keep real stock? I need an overnight delivery (ie delivered Monday). I don't care how long their warranty turnaround is, as long as they honour it. The next price up is $80 which is getting up there. What other RAM do you recommend that's reasonably cheap but not total crap? |
george12 (7) | ||
| 561374 | 2007-06-21 09:31:00 | I'm putting XP Home on this one Ah ok. I've installed Vista on quite a few PCs with 4GB Ram though and never had problems. That FAQ applied to the mobo u have now, not every mobo. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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