Bad Ballistic or what

[nasteve]

Built a box for a friend. P5B-deluxe, e6600 @333fsbx9, latest BIOS, and 2x1gig PC2-6400 Ballistic. Vcore-auto, memory voltage-2.25. The first 2 sticks of memory would post but would not let me set the timing.(4-4-4-12) Would only boot with mem set by SPD at 5-6-6-18. Second set of memory, same thing. When I took stick2 out it would boot at 4-4-4-12. When I replaced stick1 with stick2 no post. So I'm thinking stick2 is bad. Crucial is sending me my third set but I was woundering if there is something I am not seeing or could the first two sets of Ballistic really be bad. I thought they were tested before shipped. Anybody else have a problem like this.

Thinks for any help
Steve

 

[myocardia]

Either two out of four sticks were bad (unlikely), or your motherboard has a bad slot. Ask Crucial if they'll cross-ship the RMA, so you can see if both will work at 4-4-4-12, and if one of the newest sticks is bad, you can send them back two bad sticks, and be able to keep two good ones. But, at least you'd be able to find out for sure if you have a bad slot.😉

 

[nasteve]

Thanks for the response. Can the second set of memory slots be used and leave the first colored pair empty?

Steve

 

[myocardia]

That all depends on the motherboard. Some will allow that, some won't. It won't hurt your motherboard to try it, though.

 

[Midnight Rambler]

I hope you are not following the memory channel configuration shown on Pg. 2-13 of your Asus P5B Deluxe User's Guide. The labeling of the motherboard memory slots in the figure is wrong.

 

[nasteve]

Rambler, I also though they had that labeled wrong in the friendly manual. I'm using the two gold slots for dual channel.