Lost a dear friend today

[LiViNgL@RgE]

Well guys today I lost a long time companion to the evil DFI, one of my sticks of corsair BH-5 has gone *POOF* & died

...

The strange thing is it have just completed 12H of memtest #5 at 274Mhz error free

, but when I pressed escape I heard that terrible sound, BEEP,BEEP,BEEP,BEEP with 3 RED LEDS

....

I call time of death 17:22 Weds 3 August 2005, Goodbye old friend

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Please bow your head for a moment of silence

 

[maverik-sg1]

R_I_P BH-5

Want to sell me the other stick?

Cheers

Mav

 

[nick25]

LOL @ Mav.

Sorry to hear about your loss mate - sounded like they were good sticks.

 

[gamesaregood]

RIP BH5

oh dear sorry to hear about your loss mate!

So what are you planning to replace it with ?

 

[LiViNgL@RgE]

Gonna get 8 x 512 G.Skill GH & abuse them all

!!!!

 

[gamesaregood]

Gonna get 8 x 512 G.Skill GH & abuse them allhttp://www.extremeprometeia.com/forum/images/smilies/tongue.gif[/img']!!!![/quote]

:D Sweet v nice

Let us all know how they clock :D

 

[GoLLuM4444]

In that case are you actually selling the other stick of BH-5?

 

[Dazboots]

repairing memory......

try this.....

years ago i remember there was an insider tip around - wrapping defective memory sticks in a towel, putting them in a ziplock bag and put them in the freezer overnight.

I remember people claiming that defective memory sticks could be repaired that way.

The theory behind would be that the extreme cold would "shrink" the internal traces and/or fix broken traces (on a microscopic level) because the cold would contract them and thus make them work again.

For some reason i remember that and i wonder if anyone ever tried that eg. for achieving better overclocks on memory sticks ?

just out of curiosity.

I experience the weird situation that (at least) one of my OCZ sticks needs more and more voltage for high HTT speeds..degrading overclockability....and i wonder if this bizarre method would bring back the old overclock i had shortly after i bought the chips.

 

[GoLLuM4444]

lol why don't you try it and let us know how you get on. CRAZY

 

[stocky]

Sounds good in theory... Good Luck

 

[K404]

LOL...I got some PC2700 that aint working...could try that, nothing to lose

 

[GoLLuM4444]

Go for it - I'm interested in this.

 

[K404]

LOL...done. Will see if anything happens tomorrow morning.

It seems so ridiculous it might just work