Attention Dead Micron D9 Owners

[ieatrawbacos]

My Team D9GMH dies on a fairly regular basis (i.e. when ever I stress them at over 2.35v for a protracted period of time and then encounter and error or shut off the system). To all tests, one or both DIMMs appear dead. No system will post with the RAM, and clearing CMOS, pulling the battery...nothing.

I wrap them in aluminum foil and put them in the oven at just under 400F for 20 minutes...it's resurrected them three times in the last 12 months.

I figure the rapid cooling they go through (from about 70C to 25-30C) when an a stress test locks up, or is canceled, might be breaking one or more of the solder balls holding the ICs to the PCB and that the heating in the oven is just enough to reflow the solder and get them working again. Or the solder connections themselves could be more prone to electromigration than the ICs, and partially reflowing the solder removes the traces of electromigration damage.

This freezer idea is interesting, though I cannot for the life of me come up for a plausible reason why it should work.