On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:04:11 +1100, "Rod Speed"
<rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:

>larry moe 'n curly <larrymoencurly@my-deja.com> wrote
>> Rod Speed wrote
>>> larry moe 'n curly <larrymoencurly@my-deja.com> wrote
>
>>>> My batting average for Kingston ValueRAM is 8 bad PC3200 modules
>>>> out of 11 or 12 and maybe 30% bad PC2100 modules. The number
>>>> of errors seemed to correlate with the markings on the chips
>
>>>> They aint 'bad', the bios just isnt using the appropriate timing etc for them.
>
>>>> One BIOS was in an Asrock/Asus KT400
>>>> mobo, the other in an ECS nForce3 mobo.
>
>>> The technical term for that is 'pathetically inadequate sample'
>
>> That's all I can afford.
>
>Irrelevant to your original claim.
>
>> OTOH why did all the Corsair and PNY modules work fine with those mobos?
>
>It liked those better. Doesnt mean that the others are BAD.
>


If the board runs stable with the other memory at certain
timings, but can't run stabiliy with that memory at same
timings, and those timings are what the Kingston was spec'd
to use, it implicates the memory.