Shiney gold paperweight, doubles up as dead memory

[teggs reborn]

Ballistix again...

My ballistix are failing, it struggles to even load windows.
The weird thing is that it doesn't fail memtest, it passes without one error, but if i load windows it fails. ive tried some bog standard kinston memory at same timings etc and its fine.

How do crucial test the memory? do they only use memtest or do they do other tests? i dont want to send it them and then they say its fine?!?

 

[Neil79]

Ballistix

I remember when overclockers sent my first stick back to me saying it was perfectly fine and i was charged shipping costs, sent the ram straight onto crucial and they said it was faulty and issued me new sticks


p.s My second set is failing too now

 

[Hamoodii]

Ballistix are really unreliable try return them if u can

 

[Lan]

my ballistix work fine

 

[Neil79]

my ballistix work fine

Now how often have i heard that

My ballistix worked fine all summer , my other ballistix only worked for 2 months... my friends ballistix worked nearly a year then corrupted once and killed windows from booting he needed to format

Other users have been worse off, some RMAing 4 or 5 times

 

[tom_e]

Do you think if my mate asked crucial nicely when they RMA his ram to swap it with another model would they do it? as they seem to have aknowledged the problems with ballistix

 

[Lan]

Now how often have i heard that

My ballistix worked fine all summer , my other ballistix only worked for 2 months... my friends ballistix worked nearly a year then corrupted once and killed windows from booting he needed to format

Other users have been worse off, some RMAing 4 or 5 times

well ive not had one prob yet youll know if i do

 

[Neil79]

well ive not had one prob yet youll know if i do

Lan i just noticed you have 1gb , its the 2gb batches that are bad, so you should be ok

 

[Neil79]

Do you think if my mate asked crucial nicely when they RMA his ram to swap it with another model would they do it? as they seem to have aknowledged the problems with ballistix

I tried that they said no because i didnt buy them from crucial id have to go through overclockers , which is well try doing that

 

[PlasmaZombies]

I made the mistake of buying 1gb of 3200 ballistix a couple of years ago and they were never stable. I will never buy crucial ever again that's for certain.

 

[Lan]

Lan i just noticed you have 1gb , its the 2gb batches that are bad, so you should be ok

gd stuff lol, what i like 2 hear

 

[foxxx]

these sticks really are BS, i had to RMA mine, over a month ago now, said it could take 28days, this is BS i want a refund or swap for some G.skill or something, this is just terrible treating of customers.

i work in a high street competitor, and if we can't sort it out within 28days, you get a new model or refund.

i'm gunna ring up tomorow *complaing* hard this aint on, just want me money back. i spent £223 !!!! on the ram+postate 10£, have had to send them back twice, thats another 8 quid. and i still dont have anything. should just issue new model or diff product with fresh warranty.

 

[Psypher5]

No compititor and no swearing :/

 

[Madwelsh]

Guess the moral is that these forums are here for a reason. Personally I do thorough research into each purchase over £20.. I read time and time again about ballistix, therefore I avoided like the plague, if you look at the prices, they're not so different from a load of other models of ram. I personally look on the forums see what is working well for those with a similar setup to me, and stick with that. Then if you run into problems, you know there are others who can help

 

[Cyber-Mav]

No compititor and no swearing :/

what competitor was mentioned?

 

[Madwelsh]

what competitor was mentioned?

lol he edited the post didn't he, so they won't be telling you and editing again???