The Glade 4.0

of the 4 sticks of RAM I've put in my system, 3/4 from Crucial have gone bad after a time. (pc is < 1 year old) I've never had ram fail at this rate.

System started taking random system errors after a few months, ran mem check and found 2 bad sticks of ram. pull them, didn't bother to RMA them, and the system has worked fine until two days ago.
Two days ago, the system was non-responsive, nothing allowed the system to boot until I pulled the 2nd stick of RAM. (its definately the stick, I swapped them and system was still unbootable)

So now I've got 3 bad sticks of 4. Crucial has a better reputation than this.... I can't decide if I should try to RMA the mobo, or just get the RAM swapped.

Good reputation or not, bad lots can happen.

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so can bad power supplies and voltage controllers...

Sure. And if he'd RMA'd the first two sticks, and new ones were going belly-up, that'd be where I'd start looking, too.

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Other things to consider.

Are you using the right RAM for your motherboard? Are the voltages and timings correct?

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Your post in the Funday Monday thread indicates that you're using a rather power hungry memory setup. Could you tell us what motherboard (Manufacturer, Model No., Revision No.), and what power supply you are using?

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Mobo is MSI 790FX-GD70.
Processor is a Athlon Phenom II 3.45
SILVERSTONE ELEMENT ST75EF 750W ATX12V / EPS12V
SAPPHIRE 100283-2L Radeon HD 5770 1GB 128-bit GDDR5

Yes, I verified all settings. PC has never been overclocked.

TheRiov:

The concern here is voltages, drive voltages, and timings, as opposed to any defect in the memory or damage from over-clocking components of your computer. Most motherboard manufacturers ship motherboards with BIOS configurations optimized for low memory, low power consumption setups -- generally no more than 2 1GB DIMMs of the highest rated memory the mother board supports.

Also, could you please post the specific product number for your memory modules.

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Wow, is that true? Mobos are genuinely shipped to support the power drain for *two* gb?

I used to know about this stuff.... ;(

I know how you feel Sui. Ten years ago, before EQ drained all my free time, I kept on all this stuff. Now its like trying to read Sanskrit.

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