Cry Cry Cry I BrOkE mY RaM StIcK

[tehrobzorz]

omgomgomg sobb..

my muskin ram thingos ddnt come with heatspreaders.. so i bought a pair and put them on.. now.. 6 months later i found a better pair so i decided to pull tem off and put on the new ones.. I Managed to get one of them off ( by utterly destroying the aluminium thing) but the second one.. i just couldnt get off. so i got my dad ( all mighty and powerful :roll: ) to help me.. he bent the metal pretty easily until SNAP. i looked around and f*!$% 3 mem chips came off the pcb along with the heat spreader.. so now im freking stuck with 1gig of ram that has no warranty ( becuase the stickker got destroyed when i pulled the thingo off) and 1 broken ramstick that wouldnt work without its 3 extra chips// IM SOO SADDDD OMG.

one question.. ive managed to put the thing back together.. would the ram still work even tho the connectors on the pcb isnt fully in touch? ive managed to put the heat spreader the way it was back on.. meaning the chips must align with the connetors? should i try or scrap the 1gb for my next budget build ?am i risking my $300 mobo? becuase ram prices have dropped so much im wondering wheter to just get another dual channel kit..


i can get OCZ 2gb kit pc6400 gold for $345 or
2gb kingston 667 for $162
2gb corsair 667 value..

THIS IS A LOESSON TO ALL YOU WHO MIGHT DO THIS IN THE FUTUREEE
dnt follow in my steps..

and to think that i bought that kit last year for a whopping $350 !$!!$%

 

[Howard_Stern]

Sorry bud. I don't know if it will work but I wouldn't try. I'd take my loss with the ram and buy a new ram kit. It would really suck breaking your RAM and they messing up your mb.

Once again, my empathy has no bounds.

 

[Collector619]

YOU SHOULD TRY .. if all is connected ... the circuits , and the inegrated circuits arent damaged , its OK .. but ... you could have a big BUM!

 

[night_wolf_in]

try your luck with it. if they work, n do test them. otherwise, just get new ones.

 

[jeff_2087]

8O Did you forget to undo the retention clips or something?

 

[Eviltwin17]

eh..... probably not

 

[Mondoman]

.... would the ram still work even tho the connectors on the pcb isnt fully in touch?...

No

Also, for future ref, a heat spreader doesn't do much -- most of the heat is conducted away through the metal traces.

 

[orangegator]

You're kidding, right? You ripped off three chips from the ram and think it has a chance of working? Come on. Best case is nothing happens and it's not recognized. More likely is you will fry your motherboard and other components. Use common sense.

 

[fishboi]

If you drop them, sometimes they wont work. Ripping parts off, well thats a no-brainer. Whether you should gamble and try them, I cannot make that call. Probably not worth the risk.

Take them to a COMPUSA and ask them to test them for $20. Try them on their PCs - they have insurance and cheap parts etc.

 

[tehrobzorz]

but if the metal connections are touching it should technically work? cause it will still conduct !

theres no crying emoticon

[edit] oh and theres no compusa here .. i live in australia ><

 

[orangegator]

but if the metal connections are touching it should technically work? cause it will still conduct !

theres no crying emoticon

[edit] oh and theres no compusa here .. i live in australia ><

sure it will conduct electricity... and FRY lol

 

[Mondoman]

but if the metal connections are touching it should technically work? cause it will still conduct ! ....

Sorry. This isn't just a broken wire in a flashlight. It's a set of traces designed to carry signals at hundreds of millions of hertz. Just the changes in resistance and capacitance caused by not having the full width of a single trace properly connected would likely cause big problems.

 

[niz]

Jeez the original poster is such a retard.

 

[tehrobzorz]

Jeez the original poster is such a retard.

uh huh.. and thats why these forums are filled with help :roll:

obviously i have no idea with this sorta stuff theres no point of having those sorta comments so stfu you turd

 

[rammedstein]

ouch dude, that must suck, umm, personally, me as a person would try it because i'm usually on a pretty limited budget so i have to substitute everything and make ti work the best i can, lol. what i would do is cut the heat spreader in to pieces then attach the smaller pieces to the actual stick with tape or something, its pretty hard to damage a mobo by doing bad stuff with the ram, lol, I've stuck sticks in backwards and lots of stuff and haven't damaged mobos, just the sticks...

acutally, this is true story, i didn't actually didn't take the IHS off my e4300, it overheated and shut down once with the stock cooler once for some odd reason and it was idling way too high after then, so i took off the heatsink and low and behold the IHS came off with it, stuck to the bottom.

 

[chuckshissle]

Hair dryer would have help by heating it up, making the thermal adhesive to be sticky again and allowing for easier removal. Keep that in mind for the future.

 

[The-Pizzaboy]

If you have another system, which the RAM fits in, try put the "broken" RAM in there and see if it's gonna make a HUGE BOOM!!!!

 

[chuckshissle]

You want BOOM BOOM!?

 

[apt403]

No chance, those things are toast.

If your good with a soldering iron you might try resoldering all the contacts. If nothing else, you'll be alot better at soldering afterwards.

 

[nukemaster]

DDR2 has its pins under the chip. soldering is out. I think they sit on balls of solder then get heated to make contact when made, but dont quote me on it

Sorry for your loss, but you have to replace it.

 

[chuckshissle]

You know he can super glue the chips back in place and have it warranty. I don't the company will notice that will they?

 

[Mondoman]

You know he can super glue the chips back in place and have it warranty. I don't the company will notice that will they?

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Thanks for the chuckle!

 

[nukemaster]

To be honest that has a good 90%+ chance of working.

Very few companies check. You just tell then it wont boot with it installed and they will just toss it and send you new stuff.

 

[RichPLS]

I would suspect that RMA's would at min be visually inspected, so if the OP has removed orig heatsinks damaging them in the process as stated, along with detaching 3 mem chips, it would be difficult to repair sufficiently to pass a visual inspection...

 

[valis]

one question.. ive managed to put the thing back together.. would the ram still work even tho the connectors on the pcb isnt fully in touch?

BWWAAAAAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

sure dood, it'll work, go for it.

Valis