Wtf Happened!?

[I Hate Pants]

Okay... get this, I wanted to upgrade my 768mb of ram (pc3200, DDR400). So I decided I'd get a ram and buy another 256mb. Instead I spoil myself and get 512.

So I get home and install the ram into my MoBo. I turn on my computer and within a minute I start smelling smoke. So I quickly press the power button and shut down my computer. I don't see smoke but I smell it. I open my computer and pull out the ram I just installed. ITS FUCKING HOT! Compared to my other 512 and 256 I had already in my computer. Anyways I don't know why this happened.

I went to turn my computer back on but my monitor doesn't work. So I swapped my 9600XT 128MB and put in my old 9000 128mb. Now it works. So I put my 9600 back in and it works.

Afterwards I went back to the store to get a refund. Instead they give me a new one. They said it was the exact same but a different company. I installed it and it works. So now I have 1.25 gigs of ram. I was happy about this at first until I realised my computer kept crashing and I couldn't install anything onto my computer.

I submitted an erorr log to microsoft and they told me it was a grahpic driver device causing my compter to crash. So I swapped my graphic cards again and put in my 9000. After 2 hours it seems everything is okay now. Except it would seem 300 bucks have gone down the drain on my 9600XT. It must of fried or something. Im very pissed about this.

Can someone please tell me what happened to my computer?????

[Infernus]

er... this is a random guess... but could the new RAM have caused a short somewhere along your mobo?

[Fragmatic]

sounds like somethings not right... did you ground yourself?

[Infernus]

Originally Posted by Fragmatic

sounds like somethings not right... did you ground yourself?

Oh... dude... that would suck much hardcore...

[Disconnecting]

Reminds me when I spilled soda on my mobo...

I sure hope you didnt do something like place your mobo on the static free carpet to change ram

[Infernus]

Originally Posted by Disconnecting

Reminds me when I spilled soda on my mobo...

I sure hope you didnt do something like place your mobo on the static free carpet to change ram

It wouldn't even ahev to be on the carpet... if he didn't gound himself first he would bork it...

[Corrosion]

God damn it, if he didn't ground himself, I'm gonna have a spontanious combustion.

That's the 64515161654th time I've heard a story like this.




GRAB YOUR CASE BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING INSIDE! (or for more security, hold one hand on the case while working inside.)

[Infernus]

Originally Posted by Corrosion

God damn it, if he didn't ground himself, I'm gonna have a spontanious combustion.

That's the 64515161654th time I've heard a story like this.




GRAB YOUR CASE BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING INSIDE! (or for more security, hold one hand on the case while working inside.)

Yea same here... my friends always seem to do some shit like this... you has to remember, GROPE THE CHASIS!

[I Hate Pants]

Okay. Well after hearing this it makes me nervous. I have my computer on the carpet next to my desk. Is this a bad thing? Should I get like a wooden base or rubber mat to put underneath it?

[Corrosion]

No, but when WORKING inside your computer.