motherboard/bios ate my ram.. again.
Well, not sure if it was related to the 1901, moving up to 4:5, or what, but my two sticks of corsair pc2-8500c5 sticks are officially dead. This is my second set of these dimms, first of which got replaced by corsair a month and a half ago or so.
When we got the 1901, I wasn't able to manage my original 385x9 1:1 and had to move down to 380x9. After some benchmarking, I determined that 4:5 gave me more performance, and the box ran great for a week and a half up til this past weekend. After experiencing tons of random reboots and misc box crashes, Sunday night my computer went into a serious reboot cycle in the middle of the night, and the ram degraded to a state where it won't even boot windows now.
Popped in memtest86 and I get thousands of errors every second. Nice, a?
I'm frustrated and upset over the incompatibility with 1066mhz memory and the intel 975 chipset, so I'm about to order some 800mhz stuff. I'm not sure whether I'll go g.skill or another company, but I'm done dealing with these problems.
When I RMA these corsair dimms and get a new set back like I did the last time, they're going up for sale.