Venice 3000+ => Dead?

[Legoless]

Hello there,

today I was burning my Mushkin Redline XP4000 on 260 1,5-2-2-5 for like 9 hrs. After I turned my computer off and turned it on again, it just won't boot. I've tried reseting cmos, but its the same, its just beeping and three led's are on on mb, so I guess its CPU failure.. And I was thinking, did my mem controler die? Or perhaps memory died (but why 3 leds then?)? I don't have another chip atm, but could get one tomorrow. But prolly I wont get a stepping like I had, so can someone confirm, that CPU is dead? But the strangest thing is, that something familiar happened to me before. But I've managed to boot system up again, after few cmos resets. No luck now.

Thanks for help!

[Rukee]

I would say it`s a corrupted BIOS chip, the CPU is prolly just fine.

[JasonE4]

Try sticking some different ram in there, or maybe just one stick.

[Legoless]

Well guys, you were right.. Obviously one stick of Mushkin Redline died. I got picture with just one in bios, but it freezes and I cannot enter bios. Then I changed that stick with the other one.. And computer boots into Windows. Weird. If those will go to RMA, I'm thinking of getting TCCD again. BH5/CH5 just makes too much problems. What do you think?

[JasonE4]

I would definitely go TCCD for long-term stability. I don't like pumping a lot of volts through any of my components on a daily basis.

[xs64]

another UTT dead

[JasonE4]

I wouldn't go higher than 3.2 on UTT for any extended period of time. Real world performance wouldn't even be hurt by running on a divider to keep the UTT under about 230-240 HTT.

[Legoless]

Okay.. after I saw its working on that module, I plugged other one in second yellow slot. It works now, but memtest is just acting strange. I had about 2200 mb/s with single channel on 2-2-2-5 at 200 (memtest errors). But I had also 2200 mb/s with dual channel on around 260. :S Then I put higher voltage and I got around 3200 at 265. It doesnt pass memtest. But then, 3.5V gives me errors in test 2 and only few errors in test 5 and 3.4V gives me thousands of errors in test 5 and none in test 2. What should I do?

[JasonE4]

If it won't do its rated 250 MHz, then I'd definitely RMA it.

[Legoless]

Okay, this finally became more clear. One stick was ed up from the start I guess. It made me think something else is ed up, so it made divider problems, showed wrong bandwith, etc. As soon as I put the other stick in system starts to crash. If its in DC and good stick as first one, it makes errors in memtest and crashes system. If its first in DC or SC computer wont boot. Other stick works quite well now. But I still have problems. If its in orange slot, I get to memtest (205MHz, 1,5-2-2-5, running on divider), but if its in yellow I dont. Its like that yellow slot messes with divider or something.

[Sloppy]

Honestly, I think these mobos are toasting ram. I have seen atleast 15 threads of the same exact problem, including myself. I had pretty much the same thing happen to my VX, it really sucks. For s and giggles, take a look over at Bleedinedge forums, you'll see what I mean...

[xs64]

Honestly, I think these mobos are toasting ram. I have seen atleast 15 threads of the same exact problem, including myself. I had pretty much the same thing happen to my VX, it really sucks. For s and giggles, take a look over at Bleedinedge forums, you'll see what I mean...

The mobo didn't toast the Ram , the High Volt indeed
UTT seems more sensitive with high Volt than old-school BH5 chips

[Sloppy]

No Kiddin~

[szukalski]

UTT seems more sensitive with high Volt than old-school BH5 chips

Both BH and CH UTT? Most of the death's I've seen are from CH based ram or from unspecified UTT that reacts like CH..

[dnottis]

People are pumping them full of way too much voltage. My Redline HP3200s do 253 mhz 2-2-2-5 @ 3.1 volts.

[nOx34]

Cold boot with redline ?

[Legoless]

Well Mushkin puts warranty to 3.5V, so if it doesn't work on 3.5V it goes to rma. I never put anything higher than that. They worked at 250 at 3.1V too, but I needed 270, so I was burning them on 3.4V and one stick obviously toasted. Should I grab Geil One BH5 instead of XP4000? Or should I just take the same?