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Can incorrect RAM damage a PC?

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ScottBNI

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Just wondering if putting the incorrect RAM in a machine can ruin it.

I have just built a high spec P4 machine with 512mb ram at the minute. I have an old 128mb of pc100 memory, can i put it in just while i am waiting for the rest of my memory to ship?

Or is it to risky!

Thanks in advance

Scott b
 
you cant, because the pc100 is sdram. your new comp is ddr based ram, so not only can u not use it, the pc100 wont even fit in your motherboard. you'll have to wait for your new memory to come in.
 
It won't fit and if somehow you get it to fit you will have killed something lol

SD ram has 2 notches while DDR has only 1 notch.
 
Well not really, If you take SDRAM and hammer it into somthing that needs DDR then youve broken it as they dont fit, the notches are in diffrent places. Its like trying to fit a 5 metre wide sofa into a 4 metre wide room, yea you can do it but the sofa or the walls gonna get broken...
So just dont bother with the 128 pc100 stuff
 
The wrong kind of RAM simply won't fit. If it does fit the worst you'll get is the system not posting and even then, that would be extremely rare.
 
Originally posted by: Soviet
... Its like trying to fit a 5 metre wide sofa into a 4 metre wide room, yea you can do it but the sofa or the walls gonna get broken...
So just dont bother with the 128 pc100 stuff
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That's a big sofa!
 
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