Does this sound right? My memory doesn't work...

[Shyatic]

I bought a OCZ 2GB Kit DDR2-667 PC2-5400 Gold Edition, from ZipZoomFly to go with my Gigabyte 965P-DS3 motherboard, and Intel Core 2 Duo E6300. The computer wouldn't post, until I tried a crappy stick of DDR2 and it worked fine. Before this I tried each stick individually in all four slots on the board.

I called up their technical support and they said that they think it is due to a "programming issue" since both sticks don't work... They are issuing an RMA for it and I have to send it back.

What do you guys think, legit rationale on their part or no? I just don't want to wait out 30 days and find that I can't return the RAM to ZZF or whatever... I already ordered a new PSU so I am good to go with that, and I have 512MB RAM that *works* in the machine now, so I can at least rebuild it and get it up and running.

Any ideas folks? I just don't want to get it RMAed and find out I have the exact same issue after waiting it out.

 

[Aluvus]

Is the OCZ memory CL4? The DS3 appears to have trouble reading SPD information, and interprets CL4 as CL3. Which makes most DDR2 choke.

Whose technical support did you call? Some memory manufacturers are apparently taking memory from DS3 users in on RMA and reprogramming the SPD to report CL5. Not a perfect solution, but an adequate workaround.

 

[dakotagts]

This is topic number 2 on OCZ and the DS3 not playing together...

Who is the bully here?

 

[Shyatic]

This is the exact product I bought... you tell me if it's CL4 or whatever..

https://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=85206

Thanks for any help! I am no expert with memory... usually it's just "plug and play" for me so I am curious to figure out its issues.

 

[rise]

just to be clear, even with the neo-he supply, the old dell ram works fine?

i'm just not sure exactly where you're at as this is like 3 threads now.

edit- and yes thats CL4. the CAS Latency or CL is the first number listed in the spd timings.

 

[Shyatic]

The Neo-HE power supply keeps rebooting my machine... It had to go. I wanted to get a thread started on just the memory alone because that seems to be the problem... and otherwise it's lost in the heap. Search on this forum sucks or I wouldn't bother with making extra threads.