Wrong Ram

On 11 Mar 2006 18:07:32 -0800, deadlykilla DeleteThis @hotmail.com wrote:

>So I bought 2 GB of DDR Ram from a website.....For just under $195 with
>lifetime warranty.So I gave the ram to my brother as a present.It turns
>out that he didn't try to install the ram until over a month has
>passed.So the ram didn't work, I did some digging around a found out
>that I bought the wrong type of ram.I got PC-2700 ECC for a regular
>mother board and that I just needed PC-2700 non ecc.

Chances are that the reason why the memory didn't work wasn't ECC vs.
non-ECC. Most of the time (though not 100%) ECC memory works just
fine in non-ECC boards. Obviously you wouldn't get the error
correction capabilities, but the memory itself will usually work.

If you got a deal that seems too good to be true on memory, chances
are that there was something wrong with it. There was a recent thread
in this newsgroup talking about some potential issues with memory chip
densities and chip configurations. For example, those DIMMs might
have been made using 1Gbit memory chips while your brother's board
might only support up to 512Mbit chips. Or, as was the case in the
recent thread, the module might have been made up of a single rank of
16 chips in a 128x4 configuration which violates the JEDEC standard
for memory. These sorts of issues are VERY common, much more common
than a non-ECC board failing to work because the memory is ECC.

>If I want to sell
>them on ebay should I sell them as a pair or separate?

Doesn't much matter, people will buy damn near anything off eBay if
the price is right. Just be warned that, as mentioned above, there
might be something rather wrong with the memory you have. There's a
very good chance that it won't work in the PC of whoever buys the
memory from you, so they might get rather pissed off at you.

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Tony Hill
hilla <underscore> 20 <at> yahoo <dot> ca
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Well the ram has Lifetime warranty so if for some reason it doesn't
work I can allways give them the info to return it.....Well I don't
think I got the RAM as a good to be true.I found some non ECC ram that
was $20 less cheaper per stick and made from samsung...At first I
thought I was my brothers MB but then I put them Im my Alienware
Area-51 and still....The same thing.
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On 14 Mar 2006 16:27:38 -0800, deadlykilla.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com wrote:

>Well the ram has Lifetime warranty so if for some reason it doesn't
>work I can allways give them the info to return it.....

So why don't *you* return it since it doesn't work? That would
certainly be easier and more ethical than trying to sell it on eBay
with the option to use the "lifetime warranty."
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Gary L.
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Gary L. wrote:
> On 14 Mar 2006 16:27:38 -0800, deadlykilla DeleteThis @hotmail.com wrote:
>
> >Well the ram has Lifetime warranty so if for some reason it doesn't
> >work I can allways give them the info to return it.....
>
> So why don't *you* return it since it doesn't work? That would
> certainly be easier and more ethical than trying to sell it on eBay
> with the option to use the "lifetime warranty."
> - -
> Gary L.
> Reply to the newsgroup only
Because I don't know if they will take the Ram back for another non-ECC
ones.....And more than a Month and Half has passed since I bought them.
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