[Trip report] Bad RAM stick, Corsair RMA process

[Whacker]

/rant

Welps, the topic says it all. My new beast which was acquired back in Aug 07 has been fine and stable for the most part, however starting a few months back it would crash very randomly when playing games or watching videos. I could never nail it down, until this afternoon. After a few crashes, I shut down the box for about an hour, and powering it back on gave me the dreaded long repeating beep code (it literally means OH ****), with my eVGA mobo was not posting and barfing a C1 code at me which means bad ram. After playing the swap 'n boot game for about 5 minutes, it was a definite that one of my ram sticks is bad. The system is back up and working fine now on just 1gb (I'm posting this from it here), the next bit is to see how well Corsair's RMA process is.

/rant off

I will continue this thread with updates on my experience with them. I'd also be curious to know if anyone else in here has had any experiences with Corsair and their RMA/tech support processes.