i was up pretty late last night trying to make this old pc run a bit smoother. the mobo takes pc100 ram, and i put in a 512 stick pc 2100 by accident, the the way i found that i put in the wrong piece was... i could smell burning, so i took it out right away and it burnt my hand? is this ram still good ? i don't want to put it back in my pc incase ? thx alot
In case what? I am not sure the stick can harm anything if it is dead. I would put it back in the mobo (into the right one obviously... )and try and start the PC. The worst that can happen is that it won't post.
Guys, if he did infact try to put 184 pin PC2100 in a 168 pin PC100 slot, smelt burning and it also burnt his hand, then most likely the RAM is damaged, probably beyond repair!
My thoughts exactly. You can't add ram that doesn't correlate with pin standard used by you're mobo. Whenever anything electronic starts to burn isn't almost guarenteed that it's ruined. Worst case scenerio is you lost the ram and ruined the dimm slot.
Ah yes my bad. How did you manage to put 184pin DDR into 168pin SDRAM slot? Doesn't it have notches to stop this? Well you've detroyed your RAM, and I wouldn't be sure on your motherboard being ok aswell.
He probably had one end of the stick popped out a little. SDRAM has two notches, unlike DDR which only has one notch. Not to mention the voltage differences, which is probably why it got fried and burnt his hand!
Oh dear , you really must have forced it in , as PC100 / PC133 Ram has 2 slots in it, man you forced it in didnt you? Sounds guffed mate , also your board is probably guffed too.
Yup it was late and i was tired but this pc had to be done. yeah i remebr forcing it a bit and thing ..darn this is a weird mobo. anyways the ram is still good. im using it right now and for the the old pc the mobo is still good to but i havent tried the dmm slot yet
Wow, glad you got lucky, I wouldn't even try the dimm slot if I were you, only if you really, really need it.
