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where there's a will there's a way.
How'd you get in there? The groves in the RAM wouldn't fit backwards?
where there's a will there's a way.
Next time hire a pro
I don't think that's even possible to put RAM in the wrong way, unless you chopped an end off or something (there's a groove cut into DDR at about the 60-40 mark or so, and a matching wall on your motherboard's memory interface to prevent that exact problem from happening).
believe me. i made it "fit"
with what? a hammer?
What your talking about is akin to "forcing" a three prong plug into a 2 prong outlet.. it doesnt fit unless you break the third prong off. Did you cut the ram so there was another groove that allowed it to sit on the board?
Are you going to say "yo homes, to belair!" after a few more posts or what?
somehow i made it fit. the clips on the end were holding on for dear life
Are you kidding?
While it does take a certain amount of force to properly seat the ram .... there's no way you should have been able to do what you did without realizing it just doesn't fit.
Oh well, lesson learned I guess!
This story reminds me of the time my grandmother couldn't figure out why I wasn't able to hook up a new monitor when she had "unplugged" the old one without actually unscrewing the plug -- half the pins broke off in the female end of the plug, and what wasn't broken was scratched up beyond recognition.
Several years later, and I still don't know who she sweet-talked to get it repaired on a factory warranty that wasn't intended to cover acts of neglect or user damage.
he could have pushed down hard enough to break off the little pastic "keyed" piece. who knows. i'd still reset the bios ie. clear the cmos....and see if it works. put in the old video card and no ram...turn it on....does it beep?
your new ram = ty ram not supported probabbly
im also in the process of thinkn about upgrading my comp also
The RAM is decent....it was the putting it in backwards that sucked...and yes the South-bridge on the chip-set is probably toast....
Save yourself some trouble, instead of doing it all yourself..aka VLS, put a decent package together - Motherboard, RAM and chip from price-watch (use a prepaid CC) and have the dealer put it together and test it for around $10-15..then all you do is get a local case with a decent power supply, put the board package in there and spend the money you saved on a really, really, nice video card and buy a sound-blaster elite on Ebay....
The RAM doesn't have to be in all the way as long as just one copper prong touches the wrong receptor you can spark out the board. The first thing you usually fry is the on board sound card. The Intel boards are real sensitive I have placed memory sticks the wrong way a few times when i was drinking and having fun doing an upgrade but I always turn on the PC with my hand on the AC power cord just in case I got a PC-2700 in a PC-100 slot. Do you have a eMachine or a HP? They use the VIA sound it's a tad bit more rugged.
I have seen smoke and pulled out the RAM just in time the Board still worked. Your board has a 7 second time limit in case you get it hot. That is why the soldering of the board is meant to take some heat. But the Sound Chip and Video can go dead and your Board still boots up.
I don't see how the CPU had time to cook if the on board AC supply has a built in fuse in case of shorting out. I would think once the board went dead the signal to the Processor should have been cut off. But if you have AMD it only takes a hot Texas day to cook those bad boys, The Intel chip can take more heat than the AMD Google AMD look at the videos of them cooking the boards look how the Intel chips get red hot but the PC stay running. The AMD gets so hot you can light a cigarette and it fries in 2 to 7 seconds.
Anyway I have a 478 Processor you can have for a 12 pack of Rolling Rock it's 1700 mhz you can get a 478 board for 25.00 dollars 12 dollars shipping.
Funny thing is I am working on this POS pc NbaDan's friend brought me and it's a 478 and its a N1996 the worst MB to find drivers try Goggling N1996 Drivers the sites are few and people are ing. I was just about to post my story tonight how Microsoft owes each one of us 99.00 to 199.00 dollars each! wait till you here about my class action suit.
But then again I think why would NbaDan send me his friends PC he could fix himself? Dam this is some 9/11 I always wanted to meet NbaDan I wonder if the PC he sent me has a clue.
to be continued.....................call me for the CPU 478 socket 561-9941
Last edited by mouse; 03-25-2008 at 02:21 AM.
That was interesting to read you should post more.
Funny thing is I am working on this POS pc NbaDan's friend brought me and it's a 478 and its a N1996 the worst MB to find drivers try Goggling N1996 Drivers the sites are few and people are ing. I was just about to post my story tonight how Microsoft owes each one of us 99.00 to 199.00 dollars each! wait till you here about my class action suit.
I was wondering if that PC ever got to you....seriously Mouse, with my new commitments I don't do PC repair anymore, so I will send you many more old clients if you want the $$$....
I have a Nike box 1993-1998 NBA rookies if you stop by for a beer.
Hey Nbadan your friend gave me a 50 to fix his pc do you want some of it since you gave him my number?
The RAM doesn't have to be in all the way as long as just one copper prong touches the wrong receptor you can spark out the board. The first thing you usually fry is the on board sound card. The Intel boards are real sensitive I have placed memory sticks the wrong way a few times when i was drinking and having fun doing an upgrade but I always turn on the PC with my hand on the AC power cord just in case I got a PC-2700 in a PC-100 slot. Do you have a eMachine or a HP? They use the VIA sound it's a tad bit more rugged.
I have seen smoke and pulled out the RAM just in time the Board still worked. Your board has a 7 second time limit in case you get it hot. That is why the soldering of the board is meant to take some heat. But the Sound Chip and Video can go dead and your Board still boots up.
I don't see how the CPU had time to cook if the on board AC supply has a built in fuse in case of shorting out. I would think once the board went dead the signal to the Processor should have been cut off. But if you have AMD it only takes a hot Texas day to cook those bad boys, The Intel chip can take more heat than the AMD Google AMD look at the videos of them cooking the boards look how the Intel chips get red hot but the PC stay running. The AMD gets so hot you can light a cigarette and it fries in 2 to 7 seconds.
Anyway I have a 478 Processor you can have for a 12 pack of Rolling Rock it's 1700 mhz you can get a 478 board for 25.00 dollars 12 dollars shipping.
Funny thing is I am working on this POS pc NbaDan's friend brought me and it's a 478 and its a N1996 the worst MB to find drivers try Goggling N1996 Drivers the sites are few and people are ing. I was just about to post my story tonight how Microsoft owes each one of us 99.00 to 199.00 dollars each! wait till you here about my class action suit.
But then again I think why would NbaDan send me his friends PC he could fix himself? Dam this is some 9/11 I always wanted to meet NbaDan I wonder if the PC he sent me has a clue.
to be continued.....................call me for the CPU 478 socket 561-9941
it's a pc frankenstein. albatron board. audigy 2 sound card. 6800 video card. one thing i failed to mention is that i smelled something burning. no smoke and the board didn't start beeping like crazy, so i thought it was ok. looking back it was stupid. i was just in a hurry. that's all. does your 478 board support a p4 3.2ghz HT chip. agp 8x. ddr400 memory. then i'm in. i'll be in sa in a couple of weeks for a day. let's talk.
I installed the 478 in a eMachine 40 minutes ago, the old school flies off the shelf. my phone never rang,so I used it, sorry!
You want me to get a board off Craig's list? or look around my Apartment?
The core is decent, except for the 8xAGP, just get a new board and fan off E-bay.it's a pc frankenstein. albatron board. audigy 2 sound card. 6800 video card. one thing i failed to mention is that i smelled something burning. no smoke and the board didn't start beeping like crazy, so i thought it was ok. looking back it was stupid. i was just in a hurry. that's all. does your 478 board support a p4 3.2ghz HT chip. agp 8x. ddr400 memory. then i'm in. i'll be in sa in a couple of weeks for a day. let's talk.
...$50 bucks...that tight SOB....Hey Nbadan your friend gave me a 50 to fix his pc do you want some of it since you gave him my number?
ok I was saving this for the tech forum, but it..............
All you have to do is send your board back to the manufactures they will send you a replacement board in 21 days.
They are so overwhelmed with business they want you to just be happy.
I have seen it happen. I was the one of the first persons to figure out if you canceled net flicks you would get a sweet deal offered!
It's like the "slip N Fall" of the tech world! You not posting how there Board Sucks is worth more than sending you a new one by some Asian 13 year old in Malaysia!
Most boards have 5 year warranty they don't give a rats ass how it got smoked they send it to China to have some Mexican living in Canada using some person living in Fargo North Dakota's ss# really worry about it.
That is why i want to start a class action suit towards Microsoft for giving us windows without giving us Advast! Using IE is like walking backwards into an all Sex offenders prison with a pocket full of Boys club magazines.
The 125.00 you pay geek squad to fix your pc was not worth the 99.00 you spent on the windows software. Most legit places won't look at your laptop for less than 60.00 dollars.
This could have been avoided but the $$ was to great to turn down.
Last edited by Smackie Chan; 03-26-2008 at 03:52 AM.
I can't believe you managed to put RAM in backwards. I mean, wtf did you think the grooves were there for? Did the instructions require a ing sledge hammer?
Dude, make all the monkey/gorilla jokes you ing want. I have the satisfaction of knowing that you did something dumb enough to make you stupider than any ing chimp in the San Antonio Zoo.
Looking like a gorilla >>>>> being dumber than one. Props.
Ben Roflisberger.
Dude, make all the monkey/gorilla jokes you ing want. I have the satisfaction of knowing that you did something dumb enough to make you stupider than any ing chimp in the San Antonio Zoo.
Looking like a gorilla >>>>> being dumber than one. Props.
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