G.skill 2gbhz died FOR NO REASON?

[Falkentyne]

I was in maple story today and suddenly I got a white screen with the sound looping. And the screen 'turned' off and on, almost as if VPU recover tried to kick in. Suspecting the video card, for obvious reasons, I turned off the computer and replaced the X1950xtx with a PCI video card...NO POST.

Then I remembered what happened with my G.skill memory back in March, so I took the memory out and used a 1 gb stick of Corsair xms....POSTED fine.

I tested BOTH sticks of the g.skill. BOTH sticks are as DEAD as a DOORNAIL.

Using 2 GB of corsair now.

Can someone explain WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?

How do TWO STICKS of memory die at the EXACT SAME TIME?? Simultaneously?
(note computer was rebooted about 3 days ago).

And furthermore:
The system was COMPLETELY at stock. 2.93 ghz C2D X6800, 266 fsb, memory voltage at stock (2.0v--this is stock), timings cas 3-3-3-8. Asus P5WDH. I have run the system very occasionally (not for more than a few hours over the last few months, and no longer than a couple of days total) at 3.6 ghz with memory @ 2.2v cas 3-3-3-8.

So what the hell happened here?
This is my SECOND RMA of G.skill. The first two sticks died (also suspiciously) back in April...

[kingfearon]

OVerclock = OVerkill

[Falkentyne]

The computer was running at stock. Did you read my post at all?

[Knight]

Voltage spike?

[afireinside]

I had 2 sets of HZ die to. D9 just dies, randomly. Voltage doesn't matter.

[safan80]

my g skill ram is working fine, but I don't run them at cas 3 or t1 timmings. Do you have good air flow in your case? what PSU are you using?

[road-runner]

Just had one stick die out of a 2Gb set of HZ, was one month old running 24/7 @ 2.2 volts with fans on it.

[Falkentyne]

I have a Lian-Li PC-777 case. PCP&C Silencer 750W PSU. Airflow is decent. (2 front fans, one rear exhaust). Not sure what in-case temp is as speedfan reports 0C with Maple story running.

I can understand one stick dying, but why would -both- die at the exact same time, from a perfectly working condition, when you are not even overclocked and overvolted? Running RAM at cas3 isn't supposed to kill it...even then--BOTH sticks at the exact same time?

AFAIK there wasn't a voltage spike...but who knows. Doesn't make sense, though...

When the computer crashed, Maple story was running and the screen was -totally- white, and acting like it was a video card related crash (VPU recover tried to kick in). Then no POST, until I changed dimms.

Now it's possible it *was* a video card crash, and the RAM was already 'dead' somehow. I really don't think dead RAM can trigger a video card crash unless somehow the error actually -causes- the video to crash and VPU recover attempts to restore but fails. Oddly, when the first 2 sticks I had failed, the RAM was working until I powered off the computer (no crash), then when I powered on again: nothing. Both sticks dead.

Did anyone with dead sticks (that died suddenly, so you can't even memtest it) find out if it may be SPD corruption? (but again how at the same time?)

[[XC] 4X4N]

Funny seeing this. I just had both sticks of 6400HZ die on my son's computer. Running 8x425 4-4-4-15, @ 2.1v with a 120mm fan over them. Have been running them this way for months. His game froze up, he went to restart, and no post. Tried both sticks separately in 3 different boards. No boot in any of them. Looks like it's off to rma.

[GSKILL TECH]

i have no idea why they go bad so easy. i only know they are micron.
maybe is the time change to promos?

[Falkentyne]

Gskill tech, what do you mean?
You mean you may change your chips to promos? I didn't understand.

I'm using my 2 GB of Corsair XMS as backup right now (i think it's promos chips), as I haven't seen any problems with these dying yet.

No one at g.skill has been able to identify the cause of the problem?
When you got sticks returned that were completely dead, what did you find out was wrong with them exactly? Did an IC fry on the PCB or was it a corrupt SPD? This knowledge might help others...

It's clearly not the chips dying from too much voltage (two dimmms would not fail to post simultaneously...)

[GSKILL TECH]

Gskill tech, what do you mean?
You mean you may change your chips to promos? I didn't understand.

I'm using my 2 GB of Corsair XMS as backup right now (i think it's promos chips), as I haven't seen any problems with these dying yet.

No one at g.skill has been able to identify the cause of the problem?
When you got sticks returned that were completely dead, what did you find out was wrong with them exactly? Did an IC fry on the PCB or was it a corrupt SPD? This knowledge might help others...

It's clearly not the chips dying from too much voltage (two dimmms would not fail to post simultaneously...)

i mean it is good time to change to like F2-6400CL4D-2GBHK, F2-6400CL4D-2GBPK those item.

the problem is on micron IC nothing else