is it possible for a stick of memory to kill a board?

[bwoochowski]

today I slapped my brand new asus a7v600-x and hitachi sata drive into my case. it booted fine into the bios, and then it hung. now it won't boot, no beep tones, nothing. resetting the cmos does nothing. this same problem happened on 2 shuttle ak31s. each of these boards had the same stick of memory in it, and now I'm wondering if it might have something to do with it.

 

I suppose if it fried something beyond the slot...yes. I'm not sure how its possible, as I don't know enough about motherboards.

 

[Chu]

Originally posted by: bwoochowski
today I slapped my brand new asus a7v600-x and hitachi sata drive into my case. it booted fine into the bios, and then it hung. now it won't boot, no beep tones, nothing. resetting the cmos does nothing. this same problem happened on 2 shuttle ak31s. each of these boards had the same stick of memory in it, and now I'm wondering if it might have something to do with it.

Basically any component can fry a board in the right sistuation (shorts out something it really shouldn't), but it really shouldn't be one of the first places you look. Know anyone with a memory tester with a good warranty?

 

[imported_Nacelle]

I was at a LAN party. This guy was trying out some ram that this other guy was selling. When he put it in his computer, it would boot about half-way and hang. He pulled the ram out and it still kept on doing it. His day of fun-filled-fraging was over.