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    Deleted RAM eeprom, can't boot!

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by vadimpelau, Aug 28, 2009.

  1. vadimpelau

    vadimpelau Notebook Geek

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    I was messing around with Thaiphoon burner and SPDTool and out of supidity I flashed one of my modules blank.

    Now I can't boot if it's inserted in either of the slots.

    Is there a solution available or is it RMA time?

    Thanks
     
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  2. moral hazard

    moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    You could try a "hot flash".

    Put both the bad stick of ram and a good stick into the notebook.
    hopefully the notebook will power up using the good sticks timmings.
    then use thaiphoon burner (or spdtool) to flash the bad stick.

    Good luck ;)
     
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  3. vadimpelau

    vadimpelau Notebook Geek

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    well the problem is, not even the bios wants to boot with the bad stick; the screen remains black. I did swap them in the slots but no go...

    Thaiphoon didn't show the bad stick and netither did SPDTool, right after the "erasing" si even if i'd manage to boot I dodn't know what to do...
     
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    usapatriot Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Why would you even play around with that? :eek2:
     
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  5. vadimpelau

    vadimpelau Notebook Geek

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    Well the hyper-X doesn't work on 5-5-5-15, so I changed one of the modiles to 6-6-6-20 and everything worked fine. But only ONE of the modules.

    The other one seems to be read only and... by mistake I fully flashed the one that that was write enabled... at the time I had no idea the memory would become unrecognizable...
     
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  6. moral hazard

    moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    I have some ram that also seems read only, I wish I knew how to overcome that so I could flash more stable timmings.


    Anyway, let me get this straight.
    when you put the good stick and the bad stick into the notebook at the same time, the notebook does not boot?
     
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  7. vadimpelau

    vadimpelau Notebook Geek

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    Yes, and that regardless of the stick/slot combianation.

    I thaught putting the faulty stick in while the computer is in standby, but besides the obvious risks neither thaiphoon nor SPDTool don't allow blind flashing (the faulty stick didn't show up after the erasing at all).
     
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  8. moral hazard

    moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    most ram has a lifetime warrenty, can you return the ram and get your money back?
     
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    newsposter Notebook Virtuoso

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    I just can't wait until someone figures out Intels cpu flash protocols.......

    I bought 4Gb of 5-5-5-5 OCZ memory for $50- last week.
     
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  10. vadimpelau

    vadimpelau Notebook Geek

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    Well a 6-6-6-20 (JEDEC E standard) is better than a cheaper 7-7-7-21 memory and I doubt I can get anything but a fix/replacement either hyperx or some other "value" ddr3.

    So I hope they won't know what I've done exactly, not to mention that a decent service has the required flashing devices to fix it.


    I was thinking about intel too :)) that would be awsome but I don't think thet yould make it accesable to endusers :(.


    *Problem solved with the excellent tech support from Thaiphoon!*
     
    vadimpelau, Aug 29, 2009
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