My DFI has flatlined my redline....

[madpete]

Oh man am I p**sed off, this is the second time this has happened with two different lots of ram (Mushkin and OCZ).

My DFI mobo has very kindly killed my brand new Mushkin Redline

This has happened before with some OCZ VX PC4000 I had, except on that occasion it killed both sticks, this time its feeling generous and has let me off with just the one. (So far anyway, I'm just waiting on the other one dying.)

I HAVE STAYED WITHIN VOLTAGE SPEC, and have 6 fans cooling the dimms.

The first time it happened I just put it down to bad luck, but twice?

In between the VX and the Mushkin, I have been using TCCD with no real problems, other than it doesn't like anything over 2.7v (higher gives memtest errors). I put this down to the memory but it seems strange.

I have done nothing wrong and again I now have to RMA my ram (most likely at my cost...AGAIN...and most likely gonna take weeks AGAIN).

To be honest I'm thinking of changing my mobo, I've had enough

[cantankerous]

I hear ya buddy. I have no issues with my ram thank God however other issues are annoying me. The ATI boards should be out this summer and I have a feeling lots are going to jump onto those. I will not be getting a DFI variant however as the problems we are having do not seem to be from the NF4 chipset itself but the actual board which is made by DFI.

[madpete]

Cantankerous, those ATI board's can't come quick enough, I feel like I'm running on borrow time here. I'm considering taking out the remaining Redline module (while its still alive) and using TCCD at low volts until these mobo's come along.

[ozzimark]

simple solution. don't use the 5v rail, pump up the 3.3v rail to compensate
(though i think you need a modded bios for that)

[AMD-me]

Ouch, so this problem is only with the 5v rail right?

Running my CH-5 at 3v isnt really in danger right?

[HARDCORECLOCKER]

Can't confirm - running 3,72Vdimm from 5-V rail for more than 3 month without any problem...........

[Eldonko]

I quit running my UTT until its proven or not that the MB is killing RAM. However, it is likely voltage killing RAM not the MB, how many sticks of TCCD are dying? Much fewer I'd say.

[ozzimark]

Can't confirm - running 3,72Vdimm from 5-V rail for more than 3 month without any problem...........

after all those issues i remember you having before, it better keep working without a problem

Eldonko: one thing to remember is that tccd normally doesn't run with the 5v jumper switched. if the common theory about the jumper being the one that's killing ram, tccd wouldn't be effected

[Sniper 86]

My DFI has killed one of my Crucial Ballistix yesterday
The best bank of Ballistix that I had.. 250mhz 2-2-2-5 and 282mhz 2.5-2-2-5

[eva2000]

My DFI has killed one of my Crucial Ballistix yesterday
The best bank of Ballistix that I had.. 250mhz 2-2-2-5 and 282mhz 2.5-2-2-5

On 5v jumper ? strange noticed a few more folks past few days report ram being killed on DFI but only since the issue was reported ???

[Agent-JCDenton]

Oh man am I p**sed off, this is the second time this has happened with two different lots of ram (Mushkin and OCZ).

My DFI mobo has very kindly killed my brand new Mushkin Redline

This has happened before with some OCZ VX PC4000 I had, except on that occasion it killed both sticks, this time its feeling generous and has let me off with just the one. (So far anyway, I'm just waiting on the other one dying.)

I HAVE STAYED WITHIN VOLTAGE SPEC, and have 6 fans cooling the dimms.

The first time it happened I just put it down to bad luck, but twice?

In between the VX and the Mushkin, I have been using TCCD with no real problems, other than it doesn't like anything over 2.7v (higher gives memtest errors). I put this down to the memory but it seems strange.

I have done nothing wrong and again I now have to RMA my ram (most likely at my cost...AGAIN...and most likely gonna take weeks AGAIN).

To be honest I'm thinking of changing my mobo, I've had enough

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Join the club.

First my VX, then the redlines. Only my G-Skill GH has lived to tell the tale. I need some good TCCDs badly.

[neologan]

This is very worrying. The DFI board is the only board that can poush UTT and it now seems its the only one killing it. What are we all meant to do now?

[Dumo]

Same here...happened with my redline4000. Cant rma it. MUshkinn

[Dumo]

It started....

[Agent-JCDenton]

Same here...happened with my redline4000. Cant rma it. MUshkinn

Mushkin said you can't RMA your sticks?

[Nettwerk]

I rma'd my redline 4000 because it had 1 error on test #7 at stock speeds but it ran fine, but an error is an error so I rma'd it and now the new rma modules sent dont even boot up. They are dead The computer just beep beep beep beeps and I tried it in my MSI mobo and all it does is beep beep beep beep beeps... All my other ram runs fine. I cant understand why or how this ram got sent to me dead as a doornail! The computer wont post at all with it in any slot any bios nothing. I cant believe this.

This is what it does in both machines installed, cmos cleared

http://home.houston.rr.com/nettwerk/movie/redlined.MPG
http://home.houston.rr.com/nettwerk/...MSIREDLINE.MPG

[madpete]

Same here...happened with my redline4000. Cant rma it. MUshkinn

Dumo, why can't you RMA dude?

Have you spoken to Tom at Mushkin, he answered my email last night in under 20 minutes. tom@mushkin.com

[madpete]

Something pretty wierd just happened....

I decided to change back over to my OCZ TCCD and wait for the new ATI mobos, but before i did I tried the bad stick one more time and the system booted. It then proceeded to pass memtest+, boot windows and pass memtest for windows with no error. At this point I am thinking that I am going crazy, as I know the memory was dead last night.

Anyway, I switched off the PC and tried to boot again....this time like last night no go, and again its just that one stick that has the problem. Take it out and the system boots, put it back in and it doesn't (even just on its own, I cleared cmos again, etc).

So the memory is defo buggered, but why would it just come back to life like that for no reason, work perfectly for a bit and then keel over and die again for seeming no reason?

Is this that electro-migration that Oscar was talking about?

[eva2000]

sounds like the cold boot issue ?? tried a different psu as i recall enermax psu + DFI don't go well together ?

[neologan]

what the problem between enermax and dfi boards?

[Lithan]

Back in my day we didn't have these fancy 4vdimm boards. We had to overclock with sticks and twigs and vmods.

[eclypse]

Has there been any ram killed from high voltage on other MB's?? Seems strange how DFI would try to ignore this issue or blame fault on the user if its totally only happening to there board.

[madpete]

eve2000,

Issue with Enermax and DFI? I must have missed that one, whats that all about then? Although I will grant you that my volts seem a bit more wobbley than I'd like.

As it happens I have one of these: http://www.pcpowercooling.com/produc...hp?show=T85SSI
being delivered early next week, so I guess we will find out if theres a prob.

I also tried the ram in another pc (Abit mobo) @ default everything and it still wouldn't post (good stick would), i am pretty sure this ram is badly damaged some how.

[madpete]

Back in my day we didn't have these fancy 4vdimm boards. We had to overclock with sticks and twigs and vmods.

LOL

[Agent-JCDenton]

Back in my day we didn't have these fancy 4vdimm boards. We had to overclock with sticks and twigs and vmods.

What a difference 2 years have made, hehe