Last night in the middle of gaming my newest gaming system hit a BSOD with 0x00000024, which then rebooted. It then came up on boot of Windows 7 64-bit that Adobe had an update. Thought I might as well run the update since this BSOD was probably just a freak occurrance. Right at about 93% on the Adobe update BSOD again with same 0x00000024. So looked up this using older gaming computer and a tomshardware link suggested it was related to RAM issue.

Booted this system up with a Knoppix Live Linux CD and entered ( memtest ) at the linux prompt and right at the get go, it was scrolling errors in red on the blue background of memtest86 in the 3000 to 3200mb range with mismatches. Shut system down, removed and reseated RAM and tried again with memtest86 and same issue.

So great my single 8GB Crucial Ballistix Sport VLP DDR3 1600mhz 9-9-9-24 1.35v stick is bad now. This system had run memory intensive applications for last 6 months between folding and compressing video files and gaming at same time without issues, and then last night in the middle of playing World of Warcraft and at the Darkmoon Fair event BSOD.

I fortunately still had a 2GB DDR3 1333mhz PNY stick from the memory I ran prior to the 8GB, and installed the 2GB back to this system, ran memtest86 and it came up with no problems so its not a motherboard address issue or issue with the CPUs internal memory controller. Then booted this system up to its Windows 7 64-bit on just 2GB of RAM and everything ran ok, but on only 2GB which is tight for games. However Adobe is now corrupt and so I will have to uninstall Adobe Flash and reinstall it and hopefully with the system BSOD at 93% it will uninstall clean vs become an orphaned program in the registry etc.


Contacted Crucial last night for a RMA request and HOPING they will honor the lifetime warranty on this RAM stick. This RAM stick is now $84.99 at newegg and I got it for like $59.99. Still waiting to hear back with RMA INFO approved or denied.

Has anyone had to deal with Crucial before with shipping back bad memory for replacement sticks to say WHETHER they are good and quick or poor at customer service with replacements?

The last RAM stick that I had die on me was a Kingston 1GB DDR 400Mhz RAM stick years AGO. They shipped me back a replacement within about a week of me SENDING my defective stick back. That stick is still working almost daily in my daughters Pentium 4 HT 3Ghz system.

Here is the stick that died     http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148661Crucial = Lifetime...Crucial were good for me when I returned 2 1GB sticks a year or two ago.  No invoice required, just the serial numbers, got the replacements within a week.Good to hear that they have good warranty service. Some woman named Jessica at Crucial contacted me for more info before giving me an RMA#, so maybe when I get home from work today all their questions were fulfilled and I will have a RMA# in my email box.

Cant wait to be back at 8GB again vs just 2GB on this Windows 7 64-bit system.