Just blew 4G of DDR2 Ram

[cytg111]

System was becoming increasingly unstable, I was kinda blaming flash, but thought, what the hell, lets do a memtest.. booted ubuntu and .. the fcker lit up up the room within the first 2 seconds of the test.

So, out with 4 and now 4 remains.

The thing is, when removing them, they were *hot*, but only in one end ... some months back i got a 580gtx, and decided in my infinite wisdom to seat it right under the dimm's .. Today I am thinking less of that idea.
This RAM have been running smooth for like 4 years, any1 else have ram die on them like that ?? Just curious.

 

[vss1980]

Never got RAM to do that. Managed to get a small firecracker off of an old Atlas 10K drive when one of the rectifier/polarity diodes flamed out.
Was it DDR2 RAM? I only ask as these days your now paying over the odds to replace it compared to DDR3
Have you tested to check the sockets the fried stuff came out of still work ok?

 

[cytg111]

" Managed to get a small firecracker off of an old Atlas 10K drive when one of the rectifier/polarity diodes flamed out"
- hehe, were you next to it when it happend? That would scare the living shit out of me. And yes, it's DDR2 ram... plan is to wait for haswell, and I think I am just gonna wait it out with 4gigs until then, no need reinvest this aging platform.

 

[vss1980]

" Managed to get a small firecracker off of an old Atlas 10K drive when one of the rectifier/polarity diodes flamed out"
- hehe, were you next to it when it happend? That would scare the living shit out of me.

Yeah, I had the side of the case checking the cabling as the whole SCSI bus was acting up and the LVD U160/320 cabling is oh so delicate - in hindsight I assume the faulty electronics on the drive were causing problems. Hadn't changed anything, just checked it wasn't snagged or anything, pressed the power on switch and flaming light show happened.

I have to admit I did jump a foot or two away but within a second or two had cut the power (mental note: it never hurts to be able to reach the proper power switch to the PC...). Luckily none of the other components near it suffered issues (it was stacked with a few other drives and data was mirrored).
Apart from that moment, had good memories of that bit of kit - the awe of a set of drives (easily) being able to saturate the PCI bus....

Anyway, what was the warranty on that RAM?? I can't remember if they offer lifetime on that.... wouldn't hurt to check.... How many sticks was it? 2x2 or 1x4?

 

[lghost]

I can't remember buying RAM that didn't have a lifetime warranty. Look into it if for no other reason than to sell some DDR2 off to someone who needs it.