[aclug-L] Re: memory issues (was: Re: CD-R and ATX case vendor recommendations)

[Greg House <ghouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 15 February 2001 22:50, Dale wrote:
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> > Behalf Of Greg House
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> > Subject: [aclug-L] Re: CD-R and ATX case vendor recommendations
> >
> > But.. I haven't ordered anything from them in 6 months or so. My friend
> > bought some SIMMs from them awhile back that were bad. We put them in 3
> > different motherboards (different brands of mobos even...) and they
> > wouldn't even show up. Comp Geeks jacked him around on returning them,
> > claiming the memory was fine, just "incompatible with his motherboard".
> > Well, if so, they needed to provide the name of a motherboard it'd work
> > in 'cause as far as I'm concerned it was cooked before he got it. They
> > finally did refund his money, but charged him a 15% restocking fee, which
> > I thought was bogus. That one deal totally soured my friend on mail
> > order/internet purchases. He won't buy anything except from a local
> > dealer now.
>
> They may or may not have been bad. I've seen some MB's that would only work
> with PC66 DIMMS, and others that would work with anything you put into it.
> I've also seen MB's that were very picky about what size chip was in which
> slot, though most of the problems seem to appear on older hardware.

True, I understand that. In this case, these were 72pin SIMMs. We tried them 
in three different motherboards by three different vendors. All the 
motherboards were in good working order and these 2 sticks of memory didn't 
work in any of them. I think it was defective.

Greg
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