I was working on a computer and I thought it was off cuz the CPU fan stopped spinning while I had my finger on the button. It wasnt posting so when the fan stopped I yanked the RAM figuring the system was off. Well later on turns out the FAN came back on...and well the system was on while I pulled out the RAM.
Turns out everything electrically is OK cuz I put the ram back in and different ram in diff slots and the system now POSTs.
Im not sure if windows worked before I went to put different RAM in, this is someone elses computer Im working on.
But , windows now trys to starts up and says all these files are corrupt or missing. so I throw in BartPE...and I have HDD scan on there. There are like 20 bad blocks on the HDD.
Could pulling out the RAM while system is on cause the hard drive to get physical errors on it? - I know it would corrupt files but I dont think it would damage the HDD's surface.
What do you guyz think...do you think hdd was bad before I worked on the system? - thats what Im hoping.
It sucks cuz Ive never done this before (pull out ram while system was on accidently) and I feel really bad and noobish.
Also this is on an older like 700mhz machine with PC133.
Plus I dont think it would hurt the HDD...cuz when I pulled it out the system didnt even POST at that point. So, I dont think windows was tryin to start up when I yanked it. But, still would like to know what you all think.
Turns out everything electrically is OK cuz I put the ram back in and different ram in diff slots and the system now POSTs.
Im not sure if windows worked before I went to put different RAM in, this is someone elses computer Im working on.
But , windows now trys to starts up and says all these files are corrupt or missing. so I throw in BartPE...and I have HDD scan on there. There are like 20 bad blocks on the HDD.
Could pulling out the RAM while system is on cause the hard drive to get physical errors on it? - I know it would corrupt files but I dont think it would damage the HDD's surface.
What do you guyz think...do you think hdd was bad before I worked on the system? - thats what Im hoping.
It sucks cuz Ive never done this before (pull out ram while system was on accidently) and I feel really bad and noobish.
Also this is on an older like 700mhz machine with PC133.
Plus I dont think it would hurt the HDD...cuz when I pulled it out the system didnt even POST at that point. So, I dont think windows was tryin to start up when I yanked it. But, still would like to know what you all think.