I Fried A Stick Of Perfectly Good Ram :(
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You can call me Dave Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10593Members, Constellation
You can call me Dave Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10593Members, Constellation
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Wow, I never really thought it actually could happen. But I have officially nuked a stick of my ram by overclocking it too much.
Apparently 250MHz FSB with 2-2-8-2 timings was fine, but 255MHz FSB made it die a horrible fiery death.
There's really no point to this story, except that overclockers should beware that the worst *can* happen.
Apparently 250MHz FSB with 2-2-8-2 timings was fine, but 255MHz FSB made it die a horrible fiery death.
There's really no point to this story, except that overclockers should beware that the worst *can* happen.
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In this case. It never made a sound or visual effect. But my computer went black. Then would only give me a loud BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP when I was booting it for the longest time.
I finally found out what this meant after going to the mobo manufacturer website. They said it was a DRAM error. So I just pulled all the sticks and the computer would refuse to boot whenever I put one particular stick back in :/
/me knocks on wood and tosses salt over shoulder just to be safe.
Heheh, something like that happened to me as well, but it just cracked, so one day I wake up and want to go play bf, and it won't read the cd, I pop it out, big crack on it <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->.
Get me that picture. Now. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
*points at puter*
"I'm on to you!!!"
Hah. I have, once. It was a CD drive. It involved BF1942. I think.. it got too hot, or the RPM was too fast, and it exploded in the drive. It took me a week to clean out all the bits and tiny pieces of the CD. I'll post a picture later if I can find it.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
That happened to me with Red Alert 2 Allied Disk =X I've bought 3 copies of that particular game >>
The clossest thing that has happened to me was when I had put in a floppy in the same computer that ate my RA2 cd, and it shot out the floppy about 2 feet, and the floppy would not work from that day on. Its still in teh computer, sence we don't use floppies...or that old computer
the shock i got from the low voltage current running thru my fingers was nothing compared to the shock on got when i was being repeatedly bluescreened on wow startup.
Careful melting those
Everything's hooked up to them
Could get really bad
Careful melting those. Everything's hooked up to them; could get really bad.
What voltage were you using? I've destroyed ICs by using incorrect voltages, but I've never made them really hot.
I wish i had a cd drive like yours that would destroy **** games like that without me even needing to bother to destroy it myself.
Anyhow, I was playing BF2, sniper, I was chewing on my headphone cord without really noticing myself doing it, felt it go CRUNCH and then ZAP the next time I chewed down, my teeth still sting (just happened 10 minutes ago). So I getto-fied my headphones with tons of multi-colored electrical tape,
As for Computer Computer Hardware, I burnt my Old Geforce 4 MX420 as a sacrifice to the Computar Godz. Me and my friend overclocked it till it sort of... I dunno what it did, smoked. Then it stopped working. Heh. I salvaged the heat sink, I'll post a pic of the final results if I can find them on my friends FTP.
Oh: One final thing, well, actually two, but they come from the same problem.
About three months after I got this Dell (Three years ago mind you, I know better now and own a nice Mac that I use for most everything). Every time the CD-Drive revved up to read stuff, my audio and video would go into fastforward. So I put up with this for about a year, managed to rip a lot of crap to my hard drive *coughmorrowindcough*. And stuff. Finally opened my case up, found out it was a faulty IDE connection. Christmas Last year, same thing happened with a brand new hard drive. Again, faulty IDE cable.
Yeah, Dell sucks.
That was kind of stupid...
On the bright side, I've gotten away with a lot of really stupid modifications to old hardware(I wouldn't dare doing this to anything I cared about). E.g. I needed a non-ducted cooling for a p3-600 MHz so I used the base plate from the ducted cooler, ripped of the corrugated aluminum sheet attached with some sort of black plastic as thermal interface to the base plate(wth?), sanded it a little flatter, epoxied a socket 7 cooler to it and stuck a socket 8 fan on top and hooked it up to 7 volts on a molex( -5 gnd gnd -12, hooked it up across -5v and -12v with some wire and electrical tape), cleaned the die and sink bottom with some acetone and noticed I had no thermal interface to replace it with...
So... What about stearine? Hell it's bound to be better than that mm thick pad thing that was there... So I took a candle and a cleaned soldering iron on very low heat and spread a thin even layer of stearine on the core.
Now how do you mount that sink to the core with some pressure? Rubber bands + string to the rescue. Works just fine.