This is amazing.
How did the 1st person figured this out I wonder? :-P
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This is amazing.
How did the 1st person figured this out I wonder? :-P
why do i go in the freezer i'm not dead :ROTF:Quote:
Originally Posted by Oj101
@ luie: I used the logic ( :D ) that cold fixes dead hard drives so why not try other hardware as well.
Braindead :ROTF:Quote:
Originally Posted by cdawall
:( it wasa cheap stick i just wanted to see what chips it had on it...they used super glue to hold the heat spreaders onQuote:
Originally Posted by Oj101
So I see. As well as the rest of the world :rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by cdawall
meh i learn fast (hence only one dead stick not 3)Quote:
Originally Posted by Oj101
i got better ram b/c of it so i'm happy i needed an excuse anyway :shrug:
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Originally Posted by cdawall
That wasn't because of my asking to pull the spreaders from that crucial set was it? Wasn't that your thread at TPU? Haha it was so funny because I killed a stick right after saying how easy it was :D
i don't think so haha i had the thread called dead ram now what and i tried to kill them all with no luckQuote:
Originally Posted by sno.lcn
This thread found me a few weeks ago. It inspired me to push my ram to new limits. I have some old school double-sided Tracers. I broke a pair tring to push cas4 as high as I could with 2.5v. I put them in the freezer. Worked, but they didn't run very well. I friend from another furom suggested baking them to soften the soddering points. I did, after which neither stick would post. Yesterday, I desided to put them back in the freezer. Today, they post and I'm currantly testing the 24/7 OC I was running on them at 1184Mhz, 5-5-5-15 with 2.2v.
Thx XS! I think you are going to see some more of Pizza.
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Originally Posted by luie
was reading a post on vr-zone quite a while back when a overclocker forgot and left his volts on high for ram and forgot to put on fan too ( after a benching session) he said that before he could shut down system his ram was so hot he couldnt touch it :ROTF: so he just out of regular goofyness tossed them into the freezer just to cool em down ( not knowing it might help em to recover just to cool em down) :rofl: and forgot them for a week or two ... needless to say thay worked fine after remembering thay were thier
said he got to thinking heck thay should be dead :yepp: .. next time he killed some he put them in the freezer and wham it worked again and he posted about it :D
heard of it years ago before that but really never believed it till his post
Same way they discovered that Yoghurt was good for thrush I suppose; trial and error lmaoQuote:
Originally Posted by luie
im going to try this with my mushkins. mabye cas4 1200 will be attainable again! *crosses fingers and opens freezer*
hallo i'm interested about this i have cellshock 8500 on micron d9gmh chips and i think it's dead but not enough it's booting and doing everything but can't pass troough the memtest :( all other tests not problem working with software and games and overclocking no problem but only problem is the memtest :( and i'd like to know you have same problem or no?
just put it in the freezer for an hour n seeQuote:
Originally Posted by Vazovskiiii
but make sure its completely dry before you start up you rig:yepp:
I just bought a set of Cellshock 8000 C4 from ebay and they are DOA... maybe I shoudl try the freezer trick before sending them back? lol :D
Depends how much you paid and if there are more sets left. If they were just cheap and none left you have nothing to lose by trying. If the freezer trick doesn't work try the oven trick :D
No not cheap lol...Cellshock 8000 C4 are like gold dust so people are prepared to bid high on them when they are listed. I was outbid on a set last week so when I came across this set for £45 buy it now I quickly took the plunge.
They are in the freezer but I'm dubious about the whole thing - I don't know what killed them. :shrug:
Well I'll be dayumed!! So far so good - after four hours in the Freezer followed by a quick blast from my wife's hair dryer, I have one stick happily priming 900MHz 4-4-4-12 at 2.1v. Before, neither stick would work even at 800mhz 4-4-4-12 2.1v. One down, one to go...
Update: All four sticks of Cellshock in now (2G 8000 C5 and 2G 8000 C4) and did dual Spi 32M at 900MHz 4-3-3-10 2.1v
The dilemma now is should I keep the sticks or ask for a refund? I don't know how long this "recovery" will last, and I'm going to try Orthos at 900MHz 4-3-3-10. I bought the OCZ XTC memory cooler specifically for my 4x1GB of GKX so I hope I get a decent 24/7 OC from these kits at 2.2v max. :yepp:
Update #2: Orthos is happy as larry at 900MHz 4-3-3-10, 2.1v. Going to do more overclocking. :D
not helping :(
doing everything working great pass all tests exept memtest :(
is some test wich is doing same as memtest ?
keep the sticks but ask that :banana::banana::banana::banana:sucker for some $$$ backQuote:
Originally Posted by LennyRhys
ebay is full of scum sellin bad stuff
SUCCESS! :up: After four hours in the freezer my 8000 C4 sticks are right at home with my 8000 C5 kit, 950MHz 4-3-4-10 on 2.15v bios :cool:
http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/m...x1gbcas434.png
this was a no go for my mushkin redline pc2 8000 (5-5-5-12) i froze the dead stick for a few days and it stil didnt want to boot after being thawed out. i may try heating it up to see if that does anythin for me because if it does, it saves me 3 weeks of RMA time with mushkin
also, what temp was reccomended again?
I've heard 200C for 20 mins. I'm glad I didn't need to bake mine, but the hair dryer on full blast made them very hot, far too hot to touch.
so waht if i tried doing that with the headspreaders on (just so i know they hvae an even temperature)
would that work?
Most likely, the visit to the freezer helps fix a bad solder joint(s) on the ballgrid array ddr2 chips.
All sticks should come with a big red warning... be extremely careful in handling. Rough handling... and maybe high temp caused expansion... can make perfectly good sticks stop working.
These things are WAY WAY more delicate than good old DDR.
I can't see any mechanism where something INSIDE the actual chips could "get fixed" by going in the freezer.