Repair RAM?

[iTimo01]

Hey,

 

I've got a dead ram stick. It's an Hyperx Fury DDR4 and it doesn't have warranty. So I thought, maybe it's possible to repair it.

 

I found this guide: http://www.deskdecode.com/how-to-repair-a-dead-ram-stick-memory-stick/

 

Does anyone know if this works and/or are there this to keep in mind?

[3rrant]

9 minutes ago, iTimo01 said:

Hey,

 

I've got a dead ram stick. It's an Hyperx Fury DDR4 and it doesn't have warranty. So I thought, maybe it's possible to repair it.

 

I found this guide: http://www.deskdecode.com/how-to-repair-a-dead-ram-stick-memory-stick/

 

Does anyone know if this works and/or are there this to keep in mind?

"Cooking" hardware is a thing that can work, it's basically a roulette however. 

 

BUT DON'T DO IT IN ANY KIND OF OVEN OR ANYTHING ELSE THAT YOU PLAN TO COOK FOOD IN IT BECAUSE YOU MIGHT GET POISONED IN A DEADLY WAY.

[iTimo01]

1 minute ago, ErrantNyles said:

BUT DON'T DO IT IN ANY KIND OF OVEN OR ANYTHING ELSE THAT YOU PLAIN TO COOK FOOD IN IT BECAUSE YOU MIGHT GET POISONED IN A DEADLY WAY.

So I should get another oven? Yeah I don't see that comming.

 

Maybe if somebody I know is going to throw out his oven I'll give it a try.

[DoctorZeus]

6 minutes ago, iTimo01 said:

So I should get another oven? Yeah I don't see that comming.

 

Maybe if somebody I know is going to throw out his oven I'll give it a try.

you might find a little toaster oven for cheap just plug it in outside so you don't put the fumes in your house lul

[3rrant]

8 minutes ago, iTimo01 said:

So I should get another oven? Yeah I don't see that comming.

 

Maybe if somebody I know is going to throw out his oven I'll give it a try.

It needs a oven just for that use.

[System Error Message]

you can repair ram, first if the ram works but gets errors simply identify the defective ram chip and replace it. Otherwise if it doesnt work send it to louis rossman so he can make a video on repairing ram.

[mariushm]

RAM sticks very rarely fail due to bad soldering between individual chips and the circuit board. Reflowing - heating the stick so much that the solder between chips and circuits boards becomes liquid and therefore has the potential of correcting a bad solder joint - will only fix a memory stick in such very rare situations... let's say maybe 5 out of 100 memory sticks with errors.

Most often, the errors are inside individual memory chips on the stick, inside silicon .. the individual silicon dies are damaged and memory cells inside the silicon can no longer retain information correctly.

 

To fix this, you would have to determine which chip is faulty, use expensive tools (like hot air gun and infrared circuit board heater to pre-heat the circuit board) to remove the faulty chip and replace it with a chip from a donor memory stick.

However, while software like memtest can tell you where in the memory stick errors occur, it's still up to you to determine which chip on the memory stick is actually accessed when the processor tries to read or store something. For example, if memtest says it has errors reading a bit at 1000 MB from beginning of a 4 GB stick which has 8 chips on it (so 512 MB chips), then it's NOT a given that the error is in the 2nd memory chip on the stick.

You have to carefully analyze the memory stick to see how the memory chips are connected to each other and so on ... and it can differ from brand to brand , series to series.

 

A lot of service guys - when trying to fix laptops or video cards with soldered memory where some memory chip is faulty - simply choose to desolder and replace ALL memory chips because it's faster and it's too hard to figure out which chip causes issues.

[just_dave]

2 hours ago, iTimo01 said:

So I should get another oven? Yeah I don't see that comming.

 

Maybe if somebody I know is going to throw out his oven I'll give it a try.

Save your oven and get a new stick

[iTimo01]

On 15.7.2017 at 4:21 PM, dave_k said:

Save your oven and get a new stick

Already did 

 

On 15.7.2017 at 2:32 PM, mariushm said:

RAM sticks very rarely fail due to bad soldering between individual chips and the circuit board. Reflowing - heating the stick so much that the solder between chips and circuits boards becomes liquid and therefore has the potential of correcting a bad solder joint - will only fix a memory stick in such very rare situations... let's say maybe 5 out of 100 memory sticks with errors.

Most often, the errors are inside individual memory chips on the stick, inside silicon .. the individual silicon dies are damaged and memory cells inside the silicon can no longer retain information correctly.

 

To fix this, you would have to determine which chip is faulty, use expensive tools (like hot air gun and infrared circuit board heater to pre-heat the circuit board) to remove the faulty chip and replace it with a chip from a donor memory stick.

However, while software like memtest can tell you where in the memory stick errors occur, it's still up to you to determine which chip on the memory stick is actually accessed when the processor tries to read or store something. For example, if memtest says it has errors reading a bit at 1000 MB from beginning of a 4 GB stick which has 8 chips on it (so 512 MB chips), then it's NOT a given that the error is in the 2nd memory chip on the stick.

You have to carefully analyze the memory stick to see how the memory chips are connected to each other and so on ... and it can differ from brand to brand , series to series.

 

A lot of service guys - when trying to fix laptops or video cards with soldered memory where some memory chip is faulty - simply choose to desolder and replace ALL memory chips because it's faster and it's too hard to figure out which chip causes issues.

I don't know if this makes any difference but the PC doesn't post with it installed.