Crucial Ballistix 2x1GB PC4000 kit gone bad (merged)

[NeilSouth]

Hi im new, i dont have an nforce 4 board but id like to repot that my ballistix

have failed me this morning, ive been running fine for a month although i have

been getting ALOT of stuttering issues. Last night i got 3bsods irq not less

than equal, i did a mem test over night

 

And got many memory errors, did a test this morning again and it gave me

errors within 1hr... lessened the timings it gives me bsod within 15mins.

 

I cannot run at 2.6 volts it corrupts the screen or the hard drive, it has to be run

at either 2.7 or 2.8 just to boot into windows.

 

The memory was run at 232mhz 2.7 volts for a month 3 4 4 11, thats way under

its spefications! it never ran at its default 250mhz, it would bsod.

 

Im running an ABIT AV8

1x1gb=182C50B3

1x1gb=182C50F3

[Resonance]

I RMA'D my Ballistix pc4000 last month, i have not been around to test it since i got it back, it works fine @ 200-3,3,[email protected] with no errors in memtest over 8+ hours. BUT I cant get it upto 250fsb it just hangs at the irq list @ bootup?? anyone else had this? also looked in the latest ver of cpuz and the spd said i can do 3,4,4,10@250? i thought it was rated @ 3,4,4,8@250 2.8v? thats what it said on the crucial site i got em from. can someone shed some light on the matter.

 

Cheers

[MaKo]

SPD on mine show 3-4-4-10 for 250 @ 2.8v also, but I can take em to 300 at 3-4-4-8 2.6v I would loosen the timings and lower the voltage and see how it goes in memtest.

[NeilSouth]

Ive sent my ballistix back to overclockers, ive requested an exchange to either

crucial pc4000 or Gskill pc4000 i hope they do so im rather concerned about

sending it to crucial only to have another bad set sent to me... ive read

some people are on there 4th set and have still died.

 

Ill let you know what happens

[Guest badboy]

Ive sent my ballistix back to overclockers, ive requested an exchange to either

crucial pc4000 or Gskill pc4000 i hope they do so im rather concerned about

sending it to crucial only to have another bad set sent to me... ive read

some people are on there 4th set and have still died.

 

Ill let you know what happens

I am still on my first set and have no problems running now at 2.7ghz(284x9.5) and the memory running at 270mhz 3,3,3,8 1T at 2.8v on my MSI K8N Neo4. Have you heard of any other motherboard manufacturers having problems running the Crucial Ballistic pc4000 besides Abit and DFI?

[x-cite]

mine is running fine so far (check sig for settings). From the looks of things there might have been a few gremlins in the production line, hence the bad batches.

[NeilSouth]

http://discuss.futuremark.com/forum/showfl...b=5&o=0&fpart=2

 

2 more people with problems, damn how many faulty sticks did crucial put out? 0-o

[NeilSouth]

. Have you heard of any other motherboard manufacturers having problems running the Crucial Ballistic pc4000 besides Abit and DFI?

 

 

Nope not yet, but still as i said mine was fine for a month no errors did an over night

mem test it passed... one month later 5 bsod's in 1hr, ran an overnight test and

i encountered like a million errors on both sticks also did a single ram test aswell

errors in over 20mins.

 

I even had to cool the memory as if i didnt it was roasting hot

[NeilSouth]

Your RMA has been received at our offices. It will take between 7 and 10 days to

process your return, but we will do our best to reduce this time.

 

Overclockers ^

[kenrippy]

Have you heard of any other motherboard manufacturers having problems running the Crucial Ballistic pc4000 besides Abit and DFI?

yes, ME. see sig for specs

[NeilSouth]

Id like to know from crucial, why they failed

[Confined]

HEY GANG! GUESS WHAT!?

 

As of this moment 2x1GB Crucail Ballistix PC4000 kits have been discontinued at newegg.

 

I wonder what this means...