Attention Dead Micron D9 Owners

Oj101 · 10-17-2008, 12:17 PM

A few days ago my one of the sticks of my best Team D9GMHs died - one of the best CAS3 sticks in the world (600MHz C3 validated). Last night it was so bad that I couldn't get my PC to boot with that stick regardless of settings - dual channel, single channel, different slots, low volts, high volts, different timings, etc). Having nothing to lose, I covered the gaps between the spreaders and the PCB with Vaseline, wrapped it in an antistatic wrapper and put it in the freezer for 24 hours.

Fast forward to this evening
I took it out and left it out to dry and air for an hour. After wiping off the Vaseline I stuck it in a Commando and booted. It booted 800MHz 4-4-4-8 1.8v without a problem, so I started clocking it. Eventually I was running SuperPi at 1200MHz 4-4-4-8 2.35v so I decided to run Memtest to see if it was really working again.

The Conclusion
MemTest has now been running for an hour at 1068MHz 4-4-4-8 at 2.15v, exactly what it could do before. Now this is where you come in. I need anyone with dead D9s to try what I did and report back. If it works this could be the find of the year!

* Please do NOT ask me to post validations/etc as this thread is NOT for showing off my RAM but rather to try to help others recover their dead D9s. This method is not guaranteed to work and I haven't had a chance to test long term results but going from not posting at 533MHz 5-6-6-18 2.5v to MemTesting at 1066MHz 4-4-4-8 2.15v is brilliant in my opinion, even if it turns out to be a temporary solution.

jcool · 10-17-2008, 01:24 PM

Lol? Will try that to my Crucials... one of them is completely dead and the other won't post below 2,2V

imPurpleHaze · 10-17-2008, 01:27 PM

Damn man if this works ill give like 4.0 V on mine

Oj101 · 10-17-2008, 01:30 PM

Please report back

Ket · 10-17-2008, 01:44 PM

Fluke?

Oj101 · 10-17-2008, 01:47 PM

That's the purpose of the poll, to find out.

HDCHOPPER · 10-17-2008, 02:51 PM

not fluke have done this before also a copula times if thay were d9's or not dont know
but throw them in the freezer without any protection thinking thier dead anyways because heard it sometimes works ( from vr-zone )

forgot about the first time and left em thier 2 days lol and shure enough it came back

2nd time was cause too much volts no heatspreader thay(2) got hot soooo chucked them in freezer in baggie for a day

Oj101 · 10-17-2008, 02:59 PM

I'm having a lot of success back at my local forum too, SystemShock

RADCOM · 10-17-2008, 03:12 PM

Okay you guys are scaring me...... vaselining up your memory

Right now I'm composed, how does this work technically?

Oj101 · 10-17-2008, 04:00 PM

See the link I posted

The Vaseline was just to prevent condensation forming under the heatspreaders.

fatguy1992 · 10-17-2008, 06:40 PM

LOL

I'm glad your awesome memory is back

zsamz_ · 10-17-2008, 09:09 PM

no need for the vaseline
save it for other stuff

as long as you dont use the memory right away lol

bartx · 10-17-2008, 11:23 PM

I saw one day a topic on Polish forum about damaged parts, which were put into freezer

A few people said, that it has worked

I haven't tried this metod, because I haven't messed anything yet (I'm sure it doesn't work with my DFI DK P35 with corrupted bios

). But if you "repair" your sticks it's nice

CryptiK · 10-17-2008, 11:55 PM

Good to hear you revived your dead stick. I've heard of this procedure before but I am not aware of the exact reasons for it working, only speculation. I wonder how long it will last?

Oj101 · 10-17-2008, 11:58 PM

And validation

She ran MemTest at 428MHz 3-3-3-9 1.95v all night

SoulsCollective · 10-18-2008, 06:20 AM

Um wut.

I'm lost. "the cold resets the silicon"? Can anyone explain further?

N3RO · 10-18-2008, 06:24 AM

I've some D9 kit dead.. I'll test it later

Guacamole · 10-18-2008, 07:00 AM

That is super cool that anything would work to bring back these kits... If my D9 died I would freak out that is sooo awesome... Although no harm puting it in the freezer if it's dead anyway....

Oj101 · 10-18-2008, 07:37 AM

vagos, do you think it's a stupid theory or did you try it for 24 hours? Assuming it didn't work for you we've got an 80% success rate

Oj101 · 10-18-2008, 07:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Guacomole

That is super cool that anything would work to bring back these kits... If my D9 died I would freak out that is sooo awesome... Although no harm puting it in the freezer if it's dead anyway....

I'm with you in that boat, I asked SO many people how to bring my stick back to life but nobody could help. I figured that if it works for hard drives it may very well work for my RAM, so I tried it and BOOM! It's back to life

CryptiK · 10-18-2008, 07:54 AM

I'm really interested to see if this is a permanent fix or if it is only temporary. Even so, the fact it now works again even at low voltages error free and ran all night is amazing. Keep us updated to how it goes over the next few weeks/months please.

People with dead D9 - go freeze it for 24 hours and see if it works!

Oj101 · 10-18-2008, 08:09 AM

Thanks

nefariouscaine · 10-18-2008, 10:10 AM

I might just kill a 1 gig kit (512mb sticks) to try this out - I wish i'd know about this to try out on some of my old Anniversary Series stuff that would do 600mhz... now all i have left is 1 anniversary series that doesn't clock high and 1 667 kit that i'm not sure of

Oj101 · 10-18-2008, 10:25 AM

Try your 512s first, a lot of them clocked like maniacs

rintamarotta · 10-18-2008, 10:43 AM

Tryed on my dead Transcend aXeRam DDR3 sticks, and it worked but could not oc nowhere near where i could before those sticks died.

Its strange how cold can refresh silicon in memory IC's or something like that, its like bringing dead hd's back to life for few weeks