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Well I decided to run F@H over the weekend at low voltages to burn in my cpu. When I came back I noticed that it had encountered an eror so naturally I just hit "End Now" I went back to my settings in the bios and returned everything to its default values. Now when I use superpi and do the 1m iteration test, it gives me an error after 1 iteration or whatever. Did my OS crap out and I need to reinstall windows or is my RAM cooked? I have a feeling that the computer running over the weekend with the error might have corrupted windows some how. What do you think?
2x512mb Crucial Ballistix PC3200

I've gotten all kinds of errors that lead me to believe either the ram is cooked, some of the dimms are destroyed, the cpu is ruined or all of the above. When I took out the ram and put it back into the slots I got two lights of four on the mobo and constant beeping. I put one stick back into dimm 1 and booted windows and immediatley got a bsod. Then I put back in the 2 sticks in dual channel (slots 2 and 4) and booted up. Everything works fine now (no oc and everything on standard settings) but Superpi crashes isntantly. I don't know what to do. Help me ;*(((

Well I think I figured out the problem. On one of the modules, there is this very minute scratch across 2 of the gold pins on the bottom of the chip. I am almost positive that this is the problem. I hope crucial will let me RMA them.

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<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by t33lo on 09/12/05 07:38 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

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It's possible the OS might have errors. You can always try to backup data and go through a clean install. :/

As for the memory, it would be a good idea to try to test them in another system. A scratch to the gold plating is not a serious problem. The gold plates are used as a conductor, as long as the gold plates make contact with the metal connection on the motherboards slots, you should be ok. Is it a scratch or a crack?

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It's a very tiny scratch. It doesn't really look that bad to be honest, I could hardly notice it. I reformatted and then tried just that stick and got errors. Not sure but going to try again.

Well I ran it with it in and it seemed to work by itself. Perhaps I wasn't pushing the ram into its dimm hard enough, I'm still not really sure.
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<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by t33lo on 09/12/05 02:54 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

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I don't think the scratch is the problem.

You only get errors with one stick? The other works fine?


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Yes one stick works and one doesn't. One stick runs nalu 6800 demo perfectly while the other crashes. The bad stick also give me an error "VIDEO MODE NOT SUPPORTED" when windows starts up and give me a black screen. I can still click around but no video. The good stick doesn't do this. I'm guessing that one stick [-peep-] the bed. I don't know how undervolting or running them at 2.8v (reccomended voltage) would have caused this. I simply ran F@H for 2 days and came back to the computer with f@H crashed and had errors wiht that stick ever since.

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You might be entitled to RMA on the stick that gives you problems.

Just so you know, most RMA policies do not cover for physical damage to the modules. You can check it out.

I won't say anything- I'm not the law enforcement.

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Well there really isn't any physical damage to the RAM. I doubt that that scratch will make a difference cuz like you said its just for conductive purposes. I'll call up crucial today. I should just RMA one back right cuz I can't go a week here on campus w/o a computer.

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You should be perfectly fine with 512MB until you are able to RMA the memory.

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Well I'm RMA'ing it and will recieve the 512mb in a week. One stick runs memtest with 0 errors while the other one reports countless errors. I guess it got burned out or something. Oh well.

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no but I never ran them over that for more than 10 minutes in the past. I do have a side intake that does cool them a bit.

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