Bad Bh5 ?

[b|lly]

Hi all.

A friend bought "BH5" memory from ebay. He says that mobo is unable to boot with this baby's inside, so I guess they are faulty?

The chips looks like this: http://freeweb.siol.net/eplast04/ram1.gif

Are this the old bh5, or the new one?

Any ideas on what to do, he tried on asus p4c800-e dlx and on gigabyte. I'll try them out later tonight on my mobo and see what i can do...

[babyelf]

they are old bh-5..

week11 year 03

[craig588]

Give them at least 2.9V, I have a few BH5 chips that error with anything less at any speeds.

[b|lly]

OK, I have 3.9 volts waiting for them ;)

BTW, how is it possible to destroy ram anyway? Is there anything he an check on them to see if they got burned, etc?

[Jamo]

just take a look at the gold pins, sometimes some appear burnt, also take a long at all the resistors see if ones been knocked off etc..maybe they didnt work all along, egay isnt exactly known as the most reliable buy/sell site, thats why i usually stay away

edit: looking at the picture more closly it appears theres been some ramsinks on, i know i've borked ram taking the sinks off, maybe thats how they died

[sandybeach]

corsairs spreaders are "HARD" as sh*t to remove. maybe something broke inside tring to remove them.

[b|lly]

The memory is from TwinMOS that originaly dont have heat spreaders on so the spreader have been aditionaly installed...


Here is the ebay link: http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6754825892 where you can see which heatspreaders where there. And the memory was not working from the start he got them. So I adviced him to remove the spreaders to check what kinda rams he really got.

[b|lly]

Hrmp... memory isn't working here either. Got 3.6V here and nothing..only a loooong beep and that's it.

I guess it's finished..any way to RMA them?

[NinjaZX6R]

Get a hold of TwinMos. Although, installing heatspreaders voids the warranty, but they will probably do something for you. Only problem is that you won't get BH-5 chips on your replacements :(

-Collin-

[zeebs]

egay isnt exactly known as the most reliable buy/sell site, thats why i usually stay away

Yeah, and the forum trading scene is so much safer with Heatware, which has infinitely more holes in its system than ebays feedback system. :stick: :rolleyes:

Cant really go wrong with Twinmos. At just over $100 a gig for that AA4t or whatevr it is, it's pretty thrifty at that.

[***Deimos***]

corsairs spreaders are "HARD" as sh*t to remove. maybe something broke inside tring to remove them.

My Corsair CMX512-PC3500LL.. R.I.P

[zeebs]

Put them in the mocrowave to heat up the thermal adhesive then peel the heats spreaders off :p: (JK: DONT REALLY DO THAT)