It was time to upgrade my old AGP system to a shiny new PCI-e mothboard which, as you know, means you have to replace everything nearly. I saved, finally ordered everything a few weeks apart. I am not technically endowed so I replaced everything in my case but the new SATA disk. It posted but wouldn't run, of course. I took it to my local computer hospital and told the guy what I was up to and would he do the honors of replacing my two IDE disks with the new WD 640GB drive. He was happy to for a price. Three days later I got it back and it booted right up, we put the C(80GB) & D(40GB) disks on the desktop as bulk files. The repair fellow had built up my old XP to SP3 with a fresh install. About all I do is get my mail, surf the net and play WoW or Guild Wars so I setup this stuff. Windows seemed to work fine, got mail (Thunderbird) and browser (Firefox) worked, but when I went to play WoW it signed on fine and I played for a few minutes and CRASH!, followed by a week of fiddling with utilities and stuff and many crashes of different types. Back to the computer hospital for memory tests, and as I got home he called and said the memory was so bad he was surpised I could boot up. I bought all my stuff from N____G and the memory was OCZ Reaper 1066.
What are the chances that 2-2GB sticks of memory in the same package from a supposedly reputable MFG are bad. I thought very slim until I read some of the reviews on the memory and read another guy who had the same experience. Could OCZ be knowingly sending out questionable memory and maybe with N____G's assistance? I say that because the seller quickly and without question issued an RMA.
My CPU is AMD Phenom X2 7750
Motherboard is GIGABYTE MA770-UD3
WD 640GB SATA
Radeon HD 4830
Anteq 900 case with Anteq 500W BASIQ
Older LG DVD R/W
Windows XP 32 Home Edition
Could there be another reason why my memory would fail in this configuration. I am waiting while I wait for my new GSkill memory to get here.
What are the chances that 2-2GB sticks of memory in the same package from a supposedly reputable MFG are bad. I thought very slim until I read some of the reviews on the memory and read another guy who had the same experience. Could OCZ be knowingly sending out questionable memory and maybe with N____G's assistance? I say that because the seller quickly and without question issued an RMA.
My CPU is AMD Phenom X2 7750
Motherboard is GIGABYTE MA770-UD3
WD 640GB SATA
Radeon HD 4830
Anteq 900 case with Anteq 500W BASIQ
Older LG DVD R/W
Windows XP 32 Home Edition
Could there be another reason why my memory would fail in this configuration. I am waiting while I wait for my new GSkill memory to get here.