Well, not to bust on PNY too much, but we always had problems with end users
installing it in many of the Micron systems, especially the Millennias that
used Micronics M54Hi motherboards.  Micron's tests showed that in most
cases, the memory just wasn't up to the standards that we expected.  The
memory seems to have problems on higher performance systems...I think that
Dell also recommends against PNY memory.

If you can talk PNY or the retailer that sold you the memory to give you a
refund, I'd take it and buy memory from Kingston or Crucial (Micron
Technology owns Crucial).  You can count on that memory being manufactured
to very tight tolerances.  Both companies offer lifetime warranties.  For
what it's worth, I have never had a problem with any memory product from
Micron or Crucial in the three years that I've been buying and building
computers.

Drew Dunn

> -----Original Message-----
> From: PCBUILD - PC Hardware discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Dominic R. Marino
> Sent: Saturday, February 07, 1998 1:29 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: NEC mem upgrade
>
>
> I have a NEC Model Ready 9670 with 200MHZ Pentium; 16 MB EDO RAM. I
ordered
> an additional 16MB of memory from PNY Technologies. When I installed
> the memory
> Windows 95 showed 24 MB installed instead of 32 MB. I removed original
memory
> from banks 0 & 1 and put new memory in their place. 16 MB showed up
> so I presume
> the new memory is good. I put the old memory in banks 2 & 3 and only 16 MB
> showed up. I put old memory back into its original place and put the
> new memory
> in banks 2 & 3 again and it showed 24 MB. PNY technicians said it was
> the mother
> board. I took it to a factory authorized NEC technician who installed
"his"
> additional memory and it showed 32 MB. He said the new memory I got may be
> incompatible with the old. PNY Technician  disputed  this and said it is a
> problem with the computer. Now I am caught in a loop between 2 technicians
and
> need some help. The computer is still under warranty but I incurred a
labor
> charge because nothing was wrong (supposedly) with the
> computer. PNY says nothing is wrong with the memory although
> they have agreed to give me a replacement.
> The memory original to the computer has 8 chips on each side of
> the simm with the following written on each chip:
>                                       HY514404A
>                                       LJ-60F 50Z
>                                       97288 Malaysia
> On the other side the numbers on the chips are slightly
> different:
>                                       HY514404A
>                                       LJ-60F 08Z
>                                       9726B Malaysia
> The PNY chips look different. There are only 2 chips on each side of the
simm:
>                                       Siemens
>                                       HYB5118165BSJ-60
>                                       Germany G          9736
> Any ideas to help would be most appreicated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Dominic Marino
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