[Oj0]

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.

[shogan85]

I once fixed a 32MB DIMM SDRAM (PC100) using your method. Was one of my first self-owned PCs that I built myself. AMD K6-2 system. It was refusing to post, and I eventually got it down to being the ram. I also stuck it in the freezer in a packet, then took out after a few hours and let it dry.

[Oj0]

Great stuff Sean!

Someone please add a poll to this thread: Did this method work for you?, options Yes and No

[WiK1d]

It's a known cure, the cold "resets" the silicon in the IC's so to speak. Worked for my Opteron as well.

[Oj0]

Bleh. This is what makes SS home to me

[shogan85]

Noobs over there on that forum. People are too quick to call fake. Wikid interesting post, thinking back now I remember some old guy telling me to give it a try with the freezer if I had "nothing to lose" Seems he also knew this.

[deadmeat]

Oj0, on 17 Oct 2008, 10:35 PM, said:

Bleh. This is what makes SS home to me

hey ojo
you got to love there sense of "humour". ignore them and maybe they will go away
well done on sorting out the mem btw

[Oj0]

Ta It's MemTesting overnight.

[VPII]

Well done Johnny boy.

And for those other guys....

HULLE MOERE.

Anyways, I've got a similar set Teams as you've got, but they not dead yet, but we can make aplan with that and then try to revive them...

[Oj0]

Please can I go for the 4x1GB 3-3-3-9 world record?

[Jumba]

Saved sticks for me in the past so, yeah, known cure.

[Oj0]

Seth I think you owe me a coke

[Oj0]

And validation

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

[Z4CK]

This has nothing to do with the RAM

But how did you fix that 2900XT?

[Oj0]

It must be me

Cap mods. It's not perfect but it's 80% fine. It BSoDs once every few days.