hobbienut Posted February 28, 2009 Posted February 28, 2009 The new build was going great... until now. I've always had a little quirk with the computer. Now I know why. It started with my games failing, then I couldn't OC my HD4850 past 685MHz. Rebooted tonight and BAM!! Windows will not open. SO I ran Memtest again just to be sure. Failed right out of the gate on Test #2. Pulled the stick out of DIMM #1, ran Memtest...Test #2 Failed. Replaced stick in DIMM #3...Failed Test #2. Put stick in DIMM #4...Failed #2 DIMM#1...Good. DIMM#2...Good. I'm past the 30 day return period for Newegg, and I've heard horror stories about sending your mobo to Gigabyte. I figure it's not worth the downtime, shipping costs, and hassle to deal with them. THey obviously don't care about their customers. Anybody got a suggestion on another mobo, other than Gigabyte? It has to be a good OC'er, and be around the $120 target. Thanks, Matt Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheConqueror Posted February 28, 2009 Posted February 28, 2009 The new build was going great... until now. I've always had a little quirk with the computer. Now I know why. It started with my games failing, then I couldn't OC my HD4850 past 685MHz. Rebooted tonight and BAM!! Windows will not open. SO I ran Memtest again just to be sure. Failed right out of the gate on Test #2. Pulled the stick out of DIMM #1, ran Memtest...Test #2 Failed. Replaced stick in DIMM #3...Failed Test #2. Put stick in DIMM #4...Failed #2 DIMM#1...Good. DIMM#2...Good. I'm past the 30 day return period for Newegg, and I've heard horror stories about sending your mobo to Gigabyte. I figure it's not worth the downtime, shipping costs, and hassle to deal with them. THey obviously don't care about their customers. Anybody got a suggestion on another mobo, other than Gigabyte? It has to be a good OC'er, and be around the $120 target. Thanks, Matt Well I am sure the process isn't extremely terrible. The least you can do is try Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nVidia_Freak Posted February 28, 2009 Posted February 28, 2009 Well I am sure the process isn't extremely terrible. The least you can do is try I've had first hand experience with Gigabyte's RMA for motherboards. It's painless and easy. Give 'em an email explaining the problem, tell them all the steps you've done to come to your conclusion (tested RAM in slots 1 & 2, tested with different computers/motherboards and RAM tests fine) and they should shoot you back an email with an RMA number and the address to send the motherboard to. I did it with my GA-8IPE1000G Rev. 4 in mid-2006, took about a week to get it back from when I sent it out. No worries man. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
road-runner Posted February 28, 2009 Posted February 28, 2009 The new build was going great... until now. I've always had a little quirk with the computer. Now I know why. It started with my games failing, then I couldn't OC my HD4850 past 685MHz. Rebooted tonight and BAM!! Windows will not open. SO I ran Memtest again just to be sure. Failed right out of the gate on Test #2. Pulled the stick out of DIMM #1, ran Memtest...Test #2 Failed. Replaced stick in DIMM #3...Failed Test #2. Put stick in DIMM #4...Failed #2 DIMM#1...Good. DIMM#2...Good. I'm past the 30 day return period for Newegg, and I've heard horror stories about sending your mobo to Gigabyte. I figure it's not worth the downtime, shipping costs, and hassle to deal with them. THey obviously don't care about their customers. Anybody got a suggestion on another mobo, other than Gigabyte? It has to be a good OC'er, and be around the $120 target. Thanks, Matt Sounds like you have a bad stick of memory, not a bad MB... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
viperk1 Posted February 28, 2009 Posted February 28, 2009 Asus P5Q? I'm also running an E8400 with a BFG GTX 280, 2x2GB OCZ mem, bunch of hard drives and corsair 750 tx on Vista 64. I've got the P5Q Premium board and i paid $130 for it....slightly above your target, but I'm in Canada and we pay premiums (on a Premium, haaaa. that was terrible.) -Shannon Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpeedEuphoria Posted February 28, 2009 Posted February 28, 2009 I'm past the 30 day return period for Newegg, and I've heard horror stories about sending your mobo to Gigabyte. I figure it's not worth the downtime, shipping costs, and hassle to deal with them. THey obviously don't care about their customers. Gigabyte will rma it no probs, you'll have it back in 2-3 weeks. I sent one in and had no probs with them. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobbienut Posted February 28, 2009 Posted February 28, 2009 Sounds like you have a bad stick of memory, not a bad MB... NO. The sticks test fine in DIMMs 1 and 2. Dimms 3 and 4 they fail immediately. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobbienut Posted February 28, 2009 Posted February 28, 2009 I'll give them a try. I'll just be out of a computer for a month, hopefully only that long. Matt Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfisher Posted March 1, 2009 Posted March 1, 2009 NO. The sticks test fine in DIMMs 1 and 2. Dimms 3 and 4 they fail immediately. So you have 4 sticks of RAM or just 2? I am confused here. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebarone Posted March 1, 2009 Posted March 1, 2009 Yea i"m a bit confused as well... did you use only one stick and check all 4 slots with it? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobbienut Posted March 2, 2009 Posted March 2, 2009 I have 2 sticks. tested both in all 4 slots. Update: I believe my issue was my BIOS. Asked Gigabyte about it, and they gave some direction. I reloaded the defaults, and tested everthing. So far so good. God what a learning experience. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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