Memory toast and Mobo

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Gabriel Knight

Hi all

I have a mobo with 2 banks of sdram and two other typs of ram and I put in a
stick of sdram accidently in the other type of ram slot. I powered it up and
it toasted the stick of ram it got to the point that I had to quickly unplug
the power cord to stop further smoke and popping sounds I feel quite stupid
for not realizing the two types of ram but now I have discarded the stick of
ram and im woried that the mobo is dammaged as when it boots into win xp I
get the blue screen of death all the time. nothing else seems dammaged is
there a way to test the mobo with software for any dammage?

Thanks all
GK
 
Gabriel Knight said:
Hi all

I have a mobo with 2 banks of sdram and two other typs of ram and I put in a stick of
sdram accidently in the other type of ram slot. I powered it up and it toasted the stick
of ram it got to the point that I had to quickly unplug the power cord to stop further
smoke and popping sounds I feel quite stupid for not realizing the two types of ram but
now I have discarded the stick of ram and im woried that the mobo is dammaged as when it
boots into win xp I get the blue screen of death all the time. nothing else seems
dammaged is there a way to test the mobo with software for any dammage?

Thanks all
GK
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dump the board, you most likely damaged the power circuit to the memory banks. I don't see
how you jammed the wrong type of ram in the slot.
 
JAD said:
dump the board, you most likely damaged the power circuit to the memory
banks. I don't see how you jammed the wrong type of ram in the slot.
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maybe its an old board that uses both types - msi put one out that could use
ddr or sdram but not both at the same time - it was a via chipset for a p3
but i dont remember the exact model -maybe a 694 chipset? anyway i had one
for a while but i remember the manual said not to mix and match
 
maybe its an old board that uses both types - msi put one out that could use
ddr or sdram but not both at the same time - it was a via chipset for a p3
but i dont remember the exact model -maybe a 694 chipset? anyway i had one
for a while but i remember the manual said not to mix and match
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I had a board once upon a time that used both SIMMs and DIMMs, but you
couldn't use them both at the same time. A jumper had to be set to either
one. It was an old Socket A, AMD K5 board.

Patty
 
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