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Old June 18th 07, 02:30 PM posted to uk.comp.vendors,uk.comp.homebuilt
Mike Scott
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Default Ebuyer unbranded memory doesn't work - how do I even know I havethe right stick?

Jonathan wrote:
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Pick up the phone and ring the 0800 number...


So, I called Crucial on 0800 013 0330 and spoke to a very helpful man
who answered the phone instantly and cleared up my confusion:
He said that ALL Crucial 1Gb sticks are 16 chip, and the fact that the


Then he was wrong. I've just rma'd a 1G stick of 8-chip memory which
Crucial sold me for a C7/CN700-based board, which only saw 512Mb of it.

And the replacement doesn't work at full speed either (two sticks of it)
because the timing's wrong somewhere.... the subject of another thread
in u.c.h.

And I thought Crucial were reliable :-)

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