Even at 1066MHz, 9-9-9-20-2T, RAM@1.7V and SPP@1.4V, the NVIDIA RAID controller seemed to be reporting (false?) SMART errors on the RAID drives. After hearing back from one of the RAM's manufacturer's tech guys with some suggestions, I was able to start narrowing down the possible issues. At 1333MHz and 9-9-9-20-2T at 1.7V, I was finally able to get one stick from the second kit to fail relatively consistently; it gave me two garbled "Unexpected Interrupt" lockups on its own and one black/green/purple screen of junk when paired with another stick, both in memtest86+. The retailer was nice enough to swap it for another kit though, and all seems to be working well at the advertised settings.
The annoying part is that the bad RAM caused errors with the NVIDIA RAID controller, and they affected the two 500GB drives, which then recorded those errors to their SMART logs. So even though the drives test fine and the problem has been remedied, they've exceeded the SMART thresholds and report as "failing" devices. Grrr.
The system's running Windows XP Professional x64 Edition SP2, and it's pretty slick. I did have to get creative with the drivers for the Linksys WMP300N though; Linksys and D-Link don't seem to like XP x64, but the Linksys card is based on a Broadcom chipset that is supported in XP x64. A custom .inf over the Broadcom drivers, and all is well.
In other news, my nose is broken, so I haven't been playing much Virtual Boy. I did, however, finally finish Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters on PSP. Not a bad game on the whole, very pretty, lots to do, definitely challenging, but just not quite my thing.
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