Compaq was bad at it, I think all of the major brands stoped using that crap during the Pentium III era.


Also, when trying to find out if your RAM is bad... do some diagnostic work yourself.

Both of these will make a bootable CD to run a memory tester:
http://www.memtest86.com/memtest86-3.4a.iso.zip

http://oca.microsoft.com/en/mtinst.exe

Most motherboards will let you underclock the memory for compatability, most times it will happen automatically.


You can also use this memory selector to find compatable RAM:
http://www.orderingmemory.com/select...asp?bsn=NEWEGG