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- Mar 24, 2004
I am now officially having a bad day.
I just got a Biostar M7NCD Pro MB with a Barton 2800. I had 768 MB of PC 2100 ram to put in the three ram slots. I tried to start it up, but go a series of long beeps. My co-worker (who is not home right now) told me to reset the CMOS and the bus should drop to accomodate the RAM. I do this with the jumpers as per the manual and reset. Immediately the RAM in bank 3 starts smoking like crazy. Shut down computer and pulled all RAM. There is some small amount of charring in bank 3 on the board and since 2 connections are burnt off the offending RAM I can pretty safely assume that the burnt stick of RAM and that bank are fried for good. My question is...
Did I fry the board? How would I test this? How might I be able to actually get the thing running (Hopefully with two sticks of ram that are still working)
Thanks,
Feeling Stupid
I just got a Biostar M7NCD Pro MB with a Barton 2800. I had 768 MB of PC 2100 ram to put in the three ram slots. I tried to start it up, but go a series of long beeps. My co-worker (who is not home right now) told me to reset the CMOS and the bus should drop to accomodate the RAM. I do this with the jumpers as per the manual and reset. Immediately the RAM in bank 3 starts smoking like crazy. Shut down computer and pulled all RAM. There is some small amount of charring in bank 3 on the board and since 2 connections are burnt off the offending RAM I can pretty safely assume that the burnt stick of RAM and that bank are fried for good. My question is...
Did I fry the board? How would I test this? How might I be able to actually get the thing running (Hopefully with two sticks of ram that are still working)
Thanks,
Feeling Stupid