Panasonic Toughbook CF-18 problem - yes I am an idiot just to pre warn you

[19ninety]

Panasonic Toughbook CF-18 wont start - yes I am an idiot just to pre warn you

Probably not the kinda thing most of you guys on the forums get involved with though I figured as so many people us these forums someone might have worked on these before.

So, I thought I'd upgrade the memory on the girlfriends laptop, did a bit of research and bought some on fleabay long story short I ended up with three sticks of the same memory :S Rather then selling it all I figured I could maybe use it in my toughbook ('was' awesome for when we go away camping now I'm going to get no sexy time when I tell her I killed our toughbook) had a quick google and looks like it might take the higher speed memory in some of the CF-18's, and other wont. so popped the access cover off lined up the new memory .... all the pins lined up perfectly but the notch was ever so slightly in the wrong place .... can you guess whats coming next?
Ok so for whatever reason even unknown to me I looked at the little plastic notch in the entrance to the memory slot and thought "I'll just pop that off and pop the memory stick in there and see what happens ....", of comes the notch with the slightest of ease, in clips the stick just perfectly like it was meant to be in there ... flip the toughbook over, slide the power swtich and a couple of led's on the front flash and thats it. so I check the memory is in nice and tightly, yup, try again ... same happens.
So I figure it was probably not the brightest thing to do and that it will be best to remove the memory and leave it be until i have the correct memory .... tried starting it after removing the module and now nothing happens at all, not even a charging light when the mains power is plugged in, no wifi leds when I switch the wifi on, not bugger all

So ... any ideas what its likely to be? I have a nasty feeling its going to be a fried motherboard?

Thanks in advance for any help or public flaming for being a nugget

G

 

[Akempster]

yeah you got it in one. The way RAM works is by different sets of signals and power lines (each of the gold pins are different connections) putting in RAM in incorrectly is the equivilant of climbing a flag pole in an emtpy field during a huge thunderstorm. By the sounds of it you put the connections in the wrong order which meant that some power was being recieved as signals and vice versa. Long story short, youve fried it.

 

[dellboykev]

i had the same proble fixed it by removing the watch battery on the mother board to reset the bios works fine now

 

[stulid]

 

[19ninety]

Lol, anyway ... Only managed to get this fixed a couple of weeks who, bought a damaged base with working motherboard, even had the faster CPU in it, 1.1 or 1.2ghz, memory evades me at this time of the morning.