Well I Learned

Ok I have a BioStar P4M900-M4 and 2GB of Crucial DDR2 677 PC5300 Installed. I got cocky and raised the DDR2 voltage by .2(dont ask why I didnt change timings or speed). Exited BIOS and had no POST beeps or anything, just a blank screen. Now I'm 99.9% positive that I burnt the RAM.


My question is if I put more Ram in place of the burnt ones is the voltage going to remain the same and burn the new sticks as well. Id like to know this before I go and buy more RAM.

PS - Crucial won't take the RAM back burnt will they, they know if you upped the voltage and what not.



System INFO:

P4M900-M4
P4 Prescott 3.0gHz
2GB DDRBURNTRAM
Antec Smart Power 500W PSU
7900GTX PCI-e


Any insight would be appreciated.

reset the bios first... ram doesnt burn up that easily.

yeah, +0.2v mem shouldn't kill your memory that fast. reset the bios by using the clear cmos jumper on your board.

Ya, you can't return products for warranty replacement after you damaged them. You shouldn't have to ask to know right from wrong there.

As for the voltage question, your first step to troubleshooting this should be resetting your BIOS to defaults. Your motherboard manual has instructions for doing this. ftp://ftp.albatron.com.tw/product/it/mb/PDFzip/Manual/VIA/P4M900/

what memory do you have anyway, can you post the product #?

Thanks to your help I cleared the CMOS(wasn't aware of this feature) and now im running just fine.

Again thank you for the quick responses. I thought I was going to have to wait a week to use my computer again.