6 sticks of bad RAM, all in the same slot.

[distech]

All right. I wanted to get an extra few opinions on a problem I've been having. Hopefully a few of you can assist me.

I recently built 32 machines for one of my company's clients. E8500s, Gigabyte Boards, 4GB SuperTalent RAM, etc.

6 of these machines would not post, and gave me memory errors (you all know that familiar beep, beep, beep)

Every time there was a memory error, it was in the second slot. You could put the RAM from slot 1 in slot 2 and it would work but not vice versa. It just fried the DIMM. I'm terrified that I'll be dropped down 2 gigs across the board and have some very, very unhappy customers.

Anybody heard of this before?

Thanks in advance!

 

[iPROTechman]

Seems like a bad batch of boards I'd contact your supplier and ask for further instructions.

 

[Lexluethar]

Agreed - sounds like a manufacturing flaw.

 

[MindoverMaster]

Are those dual ram sticks? You can put it in slots 3 and 4, unless you only have 2 slots. You would need to RMA the RAM, as the sticks are bad.

 

[distech]

See, this is my dilemma. There's an equal amount of evidence for both sides. I already RMAd the RAM to my wholeseller and should be receiving new sticks by week's end.

If anybody else has any other suggestions, pm me.

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