broke my VX memory again
 

Today I broke my ocz pc4000 vx gold memory again (3th time for whoever may care). Everything was going fine till I reached the limit of my memory at 3,2volt. So I decided to move that jumper which allows me to increase my Voltage till 4V (got a DFI lanparty UT sli-D mobo). ocz gives a warranty till 3,5v so I didn't saw any problems. Now I booted my PC still with 3,2volt and the jumper to allow me to go till 4volt. But something unexpected happened, My memory gave me uncountable errors in memtest while I didn't changed my setting or my ram voltage. Is it possible that moving the jumper broke my mobo/ram. And is it safe to replace the ram with my reserve (jumper is back to original place) so I can use my PC again?

note that when setting the jumper to 4v, and not changing anything in the bios, the actual voltage drops a bit. Maybe it's enough to make it unstable?

CMOS reset, 200MHz 2,5-3-3-8 1T/2T 2,6v-3,2v all give errors. memory is broken for sure, dunno if mobo is broken but I just read this is a common problem that ram gets broken when moving the jumper, there is a mod for it, but I'm not sure if it will work because I don't know if my mobo is broken too or not.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ad.php?t=61632

using the 4V jumper killed some mem by some people.

thank you for warning me, only 5 hours too late :D

conclusion: UTT ram sucks :(

I'm using my second pair of UTT sticks here on my DFI NF4 and never broke a stick or suffered problems....

Or am I lucky? :D

wanna trade? my broken with warranty for your working :D

BTW: they where working very smooth till the jumper got moved

Running here @ 3.6V for several months now :D

wow, with mod or with that jumper?

With jumper :).

Always wait a few seconds after you have shut off your DFI mobo, to "discharge" the mobo ( or how do you say it in English? :) ). Then change your mem, or reseat a cable, or....
You never know with DFI :)

actually, it's shut the system, off unplug, hit start button


then the PSU should be decharged as well

same thing I do, when I pull the plug and press the power button my fans start spinning for a second and then nothing, so I guess its completely discharged

if you can, use Booster to avoid the problems with DFI.

and where can I find it? looked for some shops but it seems hard to get cheap.

I just saw you tried to sell one few weeks ago, still for available? got someone in my own street who's maybe selling one too.