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Originally Posted by dinos22
LOL!
The seller's a great person, so he deserves all he can get for them.
I got my 16GB's, so I'm happy!
Mind you, I only have 8GB left now :stick:
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Originally Posted by dinos22
LOL!
The seller's a great person, so he deserves all he can get for them.
I got my 16GB's, so I'm happy!
Mind you, I only have 8GB left now :stick:
i have an identical stick.Quote:
Originally Posted by Comp-Freak
dinos22 give the ram and motherboard some more testing and see if it is no coinsidence. try pushing the fatbody to the end of the slot and see if it again doesnt POST. we need 100% confirmation so we can make a new thread/sticky or whatever. and people with different ASUS motherboards please try this out also. maybe ASUS has different DIMM slots compared to the other brands (gigabyte, intel...). this is geting interesting
Tutti has it running:
http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/...13461#27113461
(If you don't end up by the right post, scroll untill you see pics ;))
Has anyone tried using a dull metal, or sharp plastic utencil or tool along with some electrical contact cleaner to try and take the paint off?
yeah true that just be careful guysQuote:
Originally Posted by kiwi
i don't want to see anyone kill RAM here :( :) :)
we love our beaches in December :D
yes i've done it many times now and i can confirm for my two motherboardsQuote:
Originally Posted by heikis
all the way in = beeping
little out = works fine :D (asus is a little harder to please so you have to get the height right heh
yeah i'll try it on mine tonightQuote:
Originally Posted by Comp-Freak
Be very careful with this... I had some bh5 seated wrong a couple years back... shorted and blew a contact with about an inch of trace, intact, clean off the ram
Ok, otherwise I'll try it when my board arrives. If you're carefull and keep the crewdriver flat, you won't damage the metal traces. I don't like the idea of a half inserted memorystick :p:Quote:
Originally Posted by dinos22
yeah it's a scary prospectQuote:
Originally Posted by Comp-Freak
i wonder if that can be removed with metho or something hmmm
LOL last one on eBay...
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI....m=170058527187
I'm suprised I haven't received my kit yet... grrrr
Anyone try cleaning the paint off the contacts yet?
I really don't want to be the first one to do it :p:
*EDIT*
Got impatient...
Well scratching the paint off is quite difficult!
Can you elaborate a little? What are you trying to do it with?Quote:
Originally Posted by MACMAC
Well I tried to very delicately scratch off the paint with an Xacto knife, didn't work.Quote:
Originally Posted by EnJoY
Then much harder...didn't work.
Might have to isolate the pins and use some chemical thinner as its lacquer paint.
However, I won't be doing it, since they all work fine in my DS3.
i haven't had time for anything last night nor tonight for that matter ......but that doesn't look good.....have you tried just "scarring" the pain
Nope, not yet.
By the way, I just thought of this:
Instead of removing the paint, why don't we just make the ram taller? Just attach something on the bottom of the sticks so they contacts match up with the contacts inside the dimm slots?!
how do you wedge stuff out of memory slot....sounds a bit finicky but if you can tell us what you mean it could be good i guess......my method is touch and go as well but it worked for me and others so i guess it's a startQuote:
Originally Posted by MACMAC
You would want to use something that is non-conductive...how about some cardboard of approximately the same thickness as the modules and with the same approximate depth as the painted portion of the contacts, inserted into the bottom of the memory slot. It wouldn't even have to be all the way across the bottom...just a few pieces to support the modules and keep them from bottoming out in the slots.
If needed, you could pull the cardboard out later with something as simple as a bent paper clip (power off, of course).
While this would allow you to raise the ram and get better contact , I don't think that it would allow you to close the locking tab because you are still needing the ram to sit higher in the slot.
Removing the paint and exposing more of the contacts is really the way to go...if you can get it done without killing the sticks.
I would think that the use of a solvent to remove the paint would probably be the best / safest approach. Tape off the top of the modules, pour just enough of the solvent into a container so that you could "dip" the module with only the contacts touching the solvent and let the paint come off (and hopefully leave the gold on the contacts :D ).
Wonder what to use that would not dissolve the PCB while removing the paint?
any body with p5W64 with this fatbody? i buy 4GB and i dislikes te idea of have rise it.
because in a tower the ram came down or not have good contact
Recieved my bad axe 2 today and the ram works perfectly with this board. You can push it all the way in and don't have to remove any paint ;)
comp-freak whats the results?
you have 4GB?
Only 2x 1 GB. Don't have any results yet, but it works stable @ spd speed/timings.
what MOBO you have?
the isue of memory only have with asus mobo's? or EVGA or GIGA have it?
Well, it seems Asus uses other memory slots so you have to lift the stick a litte bit out of the slot. On my Bad axe 2 it works with fully inserted sticks. Gigabyte is same story as Asus I thought. Don't know anything of evga.
They work fine in the Gigabyte DS3, no lifting required.Quote:
Originally Posted by Comp-Freak
However, in the DS4 you have to lift, same thing with the Evga 680i.