Burnt memory not quite sure what happened.

[draigan89]

Hi i recently got stuck with the task of sorting a pc out my brother was given, i clean all the crap off it etc.

Being an old pc it was slow its an emachines 3230 with only 256 mb of ram, so i thought id add more. Should be a simple task really.

Im kinda embarssed about this because i ****ed up. (i think)

the ram is supposed to be 2 DIMM, PC2700 DDR SDRAM

i bought Extra Value 1GB DDR PC2700 333MHz 184pin Extra Value Ram

And well after inserting the ram the pc wouldnt boot into windows, i checked online for a solution on my pc next thing i smell smoke pc shuts of and the rams burnt, actual black bits on the memory stick the ram slot is also slightly damaged.

The pc boots into windows with the old stick and works as normal. So what went wrong did i get the wrong ram or is there something else?​

 

[denis280]

OK i when and look around. one site say MAX 1G. other 2G. the ram you got is the right one. question is it overclock.or the ram was defect.

 

[draigan89]

Ive just got off the phone with one of the tech support from ebuyer and im going to rma and there sending me better quality ram, as they think it was faulty. Only thing is one of the ram slots is now dead. Guess ill just w8 and see if what they send me works okay.

 

[fixbsod]

If you had like 300-400 you could get a new mobo/cpu/ram and get a low-mid end i3 which should still whoop some

 

[VirtualLarry]

If you need a new PC, I have one for sale complete for $100 + shipping to USA location in my FS thread.

It has an A64 single-core CPU, 2GB RAM, and a 200GB HD, and a DVD burner.

 

[daveybrat]

The only time i've seen a burnt ram and/or slot is when someone put the stick in backwards and fried both. I've never seen a 'bad' stick of ram cause burning before.