Finally my account was verified....hi...

A week or so ago I rebooted and my PC didn't come back up, crashed on loading windows. Tried a few times and it still happened, set everything to default in BIOS and then it would not even post. Cleared the RTC RAM and tried both sticks on their own, still wouldn't post.

I figured my RAM had died so ordered some Ballistix PC-6400 to tide me over the RMA process. When it arrived I booted with 1 stick of the Ballistix and set the bios to DDR-800. Then I put both sticks of my supposedly dead RAM in and tried again...and they worked fine. Used the PC for the rest of the day with no problems.

After leaving my PC up for a few days and being away, when I got back and rebooted my PC it did the same again. Does anyone have any ideas what might be wrong / how I can stop it happening? Is it something to do with the board and incompatibility with the OCZ Reaper PC-8500 RAM? Or just faulty memory? (i'm using bios 0311). I've used the PC for over a month before this happened.

Also a little OT...if the OCZ turns out to be fine, am I stuck with the Ballistix? I've had it longer than 7 days now, but I ordered a 2x1GB kit, but they sent 2 1GB sticks instead (BL12864AA804). Is that grounds for me returning the RAM? I really don't want 2 sets of memory if I can help it, I've only opened one stick.