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x61 new ram not working properly
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 6:03 pm
by atarimaster
i just installed :
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820144063
and when i boot the system, windows gets to the login page and crashes (black screen)...... in bios it shows the full 2gb ..... but when i run the memory test on each stick separately it gets to 485mb and then hangs
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:17 pm
by sugo
I would return it and try a more reliable brand such as Crucial.
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:36 pm
by atarimaster
so far i have purchased 2 sets of ram from geil and both were faulty
at least newegg takes care of RMA's quickly
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:13 pm
by Comage
Did you try to swap the sticks around in the slots?
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 11:47 pm
by atarimaster
yeah .... i tried swapping around the sticks as well as putting them in seperatly
Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 12:50 am
by iha
hm, i've been using geil ram in my desktop PC's for a while now and had not problems. i wouldn't call them unreliable!
Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 1:17 am
by mgags7
G.Skill is good, cheap RAM. Try that.
Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 1:05 pm
by atarimaster
good part is ...... so far Geil has by far the best tech support i have ever seen ......
Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 4:39 pm
by archer6
sugo wrote:I would return it and try a more reliable brand such as Crucial.
I agree 100%. It's important to get quality ram and be done with it. It may be a bit more expensive, but you get what you pay for. Over many years I've experimented and tried a variety of brands and keep coming back to Crucial. I've not had one failure with their memory.
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 1:25 am
by atarimaster
WOW .... i tried the RAM in my friends DELL and it worked perfectly .... i guess it's a CAS timings or voltage related issue ..... so are there anyways to tweak those settings in bios?
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:22 am
by Comage
I don't think so. You're up against a wall, unless you use those software overclocking. But I wouldn't recommending using those.
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 7:13 pm
by atarimaster
can anyone confirm that the gskill memory will work with my x61?
Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 11:45 am
by archer6
atarimaster wrote:WOW .... i tried the RAM in my friends DELL and it worked perfectly .... i guess it's a CAS timings or voltage related issue ..... so are there anyways to tweak those settings in bios?
With all due respect I look at it this way, how much time is worth spending (and your time is quite valuable) trying to identify this or that about some ram related issue when one can just buy the best (crucial) and be done with it. I don't work for them, I am just another computer user like all the rest of us, who happens to have many years of experience with laptops, memory, etc as it's what I do for a living.
Respectfully at some point, I personally find it most economical to simply avoid these types of issues when I know that by ordering the best ram, I can install it and forget about it for the life of the computer. Something that is more than worth the price for me.
Cheers... and good luck.
Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 12:28 am
by atarimaster
i gave myself 3 days to find a solution and then i returned the ram .... i went with a set of G.skill and it works great
it just wasn't worth my time
Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 12:52 am
by The Spirit of X21
I don't have a problem using generic RAM as I've never had a problem with it. Of course, if there's a $10 difference between that and Kingston RAM, you better bet that I'm going with Kingston.