I bought some PC133 ram for my computer that is a few years old off eBay, and I didn't check it, the guy sent me PC400 DDR ram. I just halfway clipped them in and wondered why they weren't fitting the whole way because I was in such a hurry to get the ram in. So I go to start it up and smell some burning and nothing happens, so I turned off the computer immediately and pulled out some smoking hot ram. Now the computer wont even boot with the old ram in. I'm guessing all I burnt out was the slots for the ram on the motherboard. Is it possible by doing this and using something with the wrong voltage can burn out anything but my motherboard like - (pci cards, hard drives, dvd drives, etc.)? Everything else still seems to work normally when I start, power light on tower and the monitor just dont come on. Was planning on getting new CPU, motherboard, computer case, ram, vid card - keeping everything else... Should this solve my problem?
2007-12-10
02:52:04
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