Both mem. cards died after working for 6 mos.

I have a Pavilion zv6000. It came with 512 MB of memory, and after owning the machine for about 6 months, I decided to max it out with two 1GB cards. I bought Corsair Value Select.

They worked great for another 6 months. A year after buying the machine and 6 months after the memory upgrade, one of the Corsairs died. I had saved the original memory cards; I moved the working Corsair to the slot where the other one died, and put an original 256 MB card in. Everything was fine for a week, then the second Corsair died.

(I moved the remaining Corsair to the other slot because that slot is hard to get to, and I thought it unlikely that the second Corsair would die.)

Any thoughts? Corsair is supposed to be one of the good brands, but I think I'll be going with Crucial or Kingston next time. I just hope that there isn't something wrong with the slot itself! Time will tell, I suppose.

 

well, technically, they should have a lifetime warranty (or at least 3 year), so you can get your sticks replaced....if they still have that warranty sticker

 

Corsair XMS is one of the good brands. Corsair Value Select, not so much. Crucial is the most reliable laptop memory brand in my experience, especially in AMD notebooks.