Guy claims my memory blew his motherboard

stevenazari1 said:
ofcourse not :rolleyes: and I meant it in a sense that it would give out power as to perform a blow out you need a power source and as obvious as it is (even though I am now pointing it out to you) everyone knows that ram doesnt hold a power source :p
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If the memory is shorted out somewhere it could damage something on the motherboard.
 
I remember when my ram almost set my computer on fire. It had been installed and running fine for about 2 month, when one day i smelt burning (like when you're soldering onto PCB) so looked through the window of my case to see a load of smoke. I ripped out the plug from the socket and found that a couple of the little metal contacts on the ram stick had been totally blackend. Bare in mind that this was Corsair XL PC3200 when it was expensive, so i was quite annoyed, but i put it back into a different ram slot and it worked fine!

But, sorry, i digress. Anyway, tell the guy to go jump.
 
badbob said:
If the memory is shorted out somewhere it could damage something on the motherboard.
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true but op has stated it worked fine before postal therefore taking him out of fault. if it was banged in post its the postal service fault and if it was packaged right that would be unlikely to happen.

Gaygle said:
I remember when my ram almost set my computer on fire. It had been installed and running fine for about 2 month, when one day i smelt burning (like when you're soldering onto PCB) so looked through the window of my case to see a load of smoke. I ripped out the plug from the socket and found that a couple of the little metal contacts on the ram stick had been totally blackend. Bare in mind that this was Corsair XL PC3200 when it was expensive, so i was quite annoyed, but i put it back into a different ram slot and it worked fine!

But, sorry, i digress. Anyway, tell the guy to go jump.
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surely thats a mobo error not a ram stick error? as you put it in another slot and it was fine.
 
yeah I dont recommend putting anything back in that slot hahaha unless you want to kill it - tell the wife you hate you found a new party trick and need her to stick her hand in.
 
stevenazari1 said:
yeah I dont recommend putting anything back in that slot hahaha unless you want to kill it - tell the wife you hate you found a new party trick and need her to stick her hand in.
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lol if i had a wife - it'd be the first thing i'd do....

...maybe second....
 
Ram can burn out a motherboard done it my self before. Most of the time its by useing two type of ram like SDR and DDR slots at the same time.
 
Sounds like the gents mobo was DDR2.. only possible cause I can see and perhaps he needed the older DDR2 3200.. his own fault. you sold him working memory.
 
“again thats not the rams fault thats just incompetence”
Or unclear manuals. Sometimes it ok to use two types of ram. Sometimes not. Perhaps he had a DDR and DDR 2 sockets and his motherboard doesn’t permit both to be used at once.



” didn't know you could get 2 different slots on the same mobo?”
Its not common but you can do it. When I blow the motherboard I used VC ram and DDR or was it VC and SDR? Long time ago. Almost bought a DDR 2 and DDR 3 slot motherboard recently, few on this website. Was going use DDR2 until the price of DDR 3 dropped.

Got a number of school computers with both DDR 1 and 2. Used to have some old mobos with SDR and DDR, think they are in the storeroom.
 
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We have managed to do it once here in work.. The RAM module wasn't properly inserted into the slot and it wouldn't post properly. We made the mistake of pushing it into the slot with the power still running! :eek:

It made a pop and you could see a scorch mark on the RAM pins and also on the connector on the board.. Whoops!

So if he has done it, it is most probably his fault. Don't give him a refund. :)
 
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