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Ok so your back up and running now? First you either have a bridged solder joint under the ram chips, or there over heating.. what i would suggest is a 12 volt fan mod. alot of people put pennies under the ram chips to take the heat away... i don't recommend that.. I would maybe take the pads off ther ram chips and see if it runs any cooler...and maybe the 12 volt fan mod.. ram errors are a pain, 0110 especially... seems there never fixable unless you reball them. try to get it as cool as possible, let me know if this helps if not we can try a few other things. not sure what yet, but i am sure i will think of something.
the pads were not originally there. They helped when I added them. I have heard about the penny "fix" but considering that it works similarly to how the x-clamp "fix" works, I don't think I should do it. I would rather not have to do the 12V fan mod because of how loud it is, but I will try it later today to see if it helps at all.
You can always put a pot resistor in for the 12 volt fan mod that way you can keep it cooler and keep some of the noise down, you can get a good 10k pot resistor at Radio shack.http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2062298This should be small enough to fit under the dvd drive towards the top where the hard drive goes and you will have complete access to it..
how did you fix it ? Please explain So others will know
You just need to cut the tape into tiny squares roughly the size of the ram chips. Don't peel off the 3M VHB side or it will be a pain to get the gpu heatsink off of the board.
Some good info you left us, will have to try it. I take it you stuck the tape to the gpu heatsync other wise you wouldn't have known this.... j/k
I heated ALL the ram chips with a heatgun (on lowest setting 540F for mine) and put the thermal pads back on the ram chips that go on the bottom of the board and then put 3M VHB foam tape (got them at radioshack) on all of the ram chips on the front side of the motherboard. Including the ram chips under the gpu heatsink.The link to the tape I used is hereYou just need to cut the tape into tiny squares roughly the size of the ram chips. Don't peel off the 3M VHB side or it will be a pain to get the gpu heatsink off of the board.
add no clean flux to cpu ram gpureflow it then add artic silver 5 no cheap generic crap unless you want problems againxclamp fixtry not to keep reflowing it as it will flex the board