as the subject says....
A few days ago, I installed my newly bought 256MB PC2100 Crucial RAM. I installed the Crucial RAM in slot 1 and my old OEM 128MB on slot 2. However, after a few seconds of booting-up, I smelled something burnt. I quickly shut the whole thing off and I thought the PSU burnt out as I've been keeping it running for abt 2 days without stop and as you it's summer now. I found out later that my old RAM was burnt out on connecting pins (the gold color connecting pins). Heh...I guess something's wrong w/ the memory.
So, the next morning I went over to my friend's to borrow a PSU. To my dissapointment, nothing happened, no sound no nothing, I just got blank screen. So I went to ask another friend to loan me a complete set of socket A stuff (mobo, RAM and CPU). Still nothing. So I took out every card and began doing some testing and I came to conclusion that my video card is the problem.
Well, I want to know if the short-circuit of the RAM can do some damage to other part of the system e.g. video card, CPU, other RAMs, sound card, HDD or CD ROM?? Any idea I can fix this problem ? Anyone? any help is appreciated
btw, my rig is as following:
KA266-R Rev 1.3 BIOS Feb15
1.1Ghz Athlon (100Mhz)
128MB PC2100 Samsung DDR RAM (burnt-out)
256MB PC2100 Crucial DDR RAM
Leadtek GF2 MX DH Pro
Creative X-Gamer 5.1 Sound card
SMC 1211TX 10/100 Mbps NIC
Maxtor 46GB HDD
Sony CD-RW 8x4x32
Logitech Cordless keyboard & mouse
A few days ago, I installed my newly bought 256MB PC2100 Crucial RAM. I installed the Crucial RAM in slot 1 and my old OEM 128MB on slot 2. However, after a few seconds of booting-up, I smelled something burnt. I quickly shut the whole thing off and I thought the PSU burnt out as I've been keeping it running for abt 2 days without stop and as you it's summer now. I found out later that my old RAM was burnt out on connecting pins (the gold color connecting pins). Heh...I guess something's wrong w/ the memory.
So, the next morning I went over to my friend's to borrow a PSU. To my dissapointment, nothing happened, no sound no nothing, I just got blank screen. So I went to ask another friend to loan me a complete set of socket A stuff (mobo, RAM and CPU). Still nothing. So I took out every card and began doing some testing and I came to conclusion that my video card is the problem.
Well, I want to know if the short-circuit of the RAM can do some damage to other part of the system e.g. video card, CPU, other RAMs, sound card, HDD or CD ROM?? Any idea I can fix this problem ? Anyone? any help is appreciated
btw, my rig is as following:
KA266-R Rev 1.3 BIOS Feb15
1.1Ghz Athlon (100Mhz)
128MB PC2100 Samsung DDR RAM (burnt-out)
256MB PC2100 Crucial DDR RAM
Leadtek GF2 MX DH Pro
Creative X-Gamer 5.1 Sound card
SMC 1211TX 10/100 Mbps NIC
Maxtor 46GB HDD
Sony CD-RW 8x4x32
Logitech Cordless keyboard & mouse
