I think I already know the answer to this, but just checking.
I have a stick of 256MB Crucial PC133 SDRAM that I've had for about 1 year. I had one of those, and one stick of 128MB Crucial PC133 SDRAM in my Athlon 900 system. The only problem I had with my system duing that year is that sometimes it takes a few power ons and offs to get the system to post. The power comes on sometimes, everything spins up, but no beep and no bios display. Yesterday I added another 256MB Crucial PC133 SDRAM to the system and it showed 512MB of memory on post. Sometimes Windows 2000 would get to the splash screen but not to to the desktop. I removed all of the memory and moved the chips around to see if it was a slot problem (I have 3 DIMM slots) and no matter what order I put the chips in I get 512MB RAM. I removed all of the RAM and just added one stick at a time booting and seeing what happened. My older 256MB stick now shows up as a 128MB stick. I tried it in all of the slots and it still posts as 128MB. The other two sticks run fine and are posting at the correct amounts.
Since Crucial has a limited lifetime warranty on their memory and I bought the suspect stick from crucial.com a year ago, do you guys think I will have any trouble getting them to RMA the stick based on this info? I want to avoid sending the stick back to them and getting charged for them to evaluate it and saying its fine. I am still waiting for an e-mail response from their tech support about this.
Thanks,
Mike
I have a stick of 256MB Crucial PC133 SDRAM that I've had for about 1 year. I had one of those, and one stick of 128MB Crucial PC133 SDRAM in my Athlon 900 system. The only problem I had with my system duing that year is that sometimes it takes a few power ons and offs to get the system to post. The power comes on sometimes, everything spins up, but no beep and no bios display. Yesterday I added another 256MB Crucial PC133 SDRAM to the system and it showed 512MB of memory on post. Sometimes Windows 2000 would get to the splash screen but not to to the desktop. I removed all of the memory and moved the chips around to see if it was a slot problem (I have 3 DIMM slots) and no matter what order I put the chips in I get 512MB RAM. I removed all of the RAM and just added one stick at a time booting and seeing what happened. My older 256MB stick now shows up as a 128MB stick. I tried it in all of the slots and it still posts as 128MB. The other two sticks run fine and are posting at the correct amounts.
Since Crucial has a limited lifetime warranty on their memory and I bought the suspect stick from crucial.com a year ago, do you guys think I will have any trouble getting them to RMA the stick based on this info? I want to avoid sending the stick back to them and getting charged for them to evaluate it and saying its fine. I am still waiting for an e-mail response from their tech support about this.
Thanks,
Mike
