Oh how I love shopping

[Skuzzy]

With all the computers/servers I run, I have had only one RAM failure and it happen to be a Samsung stick that failed.  Really odd thing was that it failed after about a year of use.

Going on 7 years and never had a Crucial stick fail.  The original server I used when I started AppLink is still chugging along today, albeit relagated to monitoring the network (what else ya gonna do with a 133Mhz Pentium with 64MB of RAM ).

The nice thing about Crucial is they do stand behind thier product.  Try returning a stick of RAM to Best Buy for warranty replacement.

[capt. apathy]

actually i had no problem returning the kingston ram to best buy.
and when i replaced it with the crucial and replaced the sound card that burned out when i put the kingston in, they installed all the new hardware for free since the ram i bought from them seemed to be the cause of my problems.

i've never had any problem with warrenty replacement at best buy.

[Skuzzy]

Could be a store by store issue then capt. apathy and that is a risk one avoids when getting the part from one source.

I made the error of buying some RAM at a Best Buy once (yes, it was the Samsung chips and I was in panic mode to get a new server online).  They gave me the wrong parts and when I went back they told me they could not take them back and I would have to buy new ones.  I wrote a letter to Best Buy corporate and they finally gave me credit, but that is just too much to go through over a simple error.