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help me with my Ram dispute! Thx!

Hankysmoo

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May 27, 2000
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My friend just bought a stick of pc133 128mb sdram from taiwan for his new p3667 with an asus p3v4x. Because I just purchased a p3 550e and only had pc100 ram, i wanted to test its overclockability and therefore borrowed his ram for a day with my Asus Cusl2. So, I popped it in and immediately set the bus to 133. No boot, I couldn't believe it. So, I automatically assumed it was the cpu. Then, I lowered the bus to 100 and it booted into windows fine. I was pissed at the sucky overclock of my computer. So, i took out his ram and just put back in my old pc100. Just for fun, I decided to try 133 fsb. To my surprise it worked and everything ran fine up to around 138 cas3. So, i knew something was wrong with his ram. Now, I gave it back to him and he claims that it worked before but now after I gave it back to him, he is getting Memory checksum errors at bootup. He is blaiming me saying that I broke it and I should at least payback half of the cost of the ram. Do you guys think I broke his ram? What would you guys do if you were in my situation, should I pay half the cost of a new stick? this really sux...what a "Friend" he turned out to be...
 

Vpham97

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Sep 15, 2000
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Sorry, I don't know if you broke it or not. How much exactly is this half. 128Mb Pc133 can be found for around $75 - $90 around here occasionaly.