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i've been friggin' around trying to fix a friends computer. I had taken out the card and didn't lock it down before I turned on the power. I smelt burnt rubber and flipped it off.




Antway, my question is this. If it burnt inside the comp, like in the pic, what now? Is the computer no good or if I bought a new card would it work ok?

I;m guessing the comp is fuxored but want to make sure first.

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nm im fucked

nothing to see here fokls, move along

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Those black slots are memory slots T.......the beauty of newer computers is that some of them don't require that the slots be filled in any specific order. Lets call the memory slot you burned "Slot 0" and from left to right the others would be "Slot 1" and "Slot 2". If you had another piece of memory that was not possibly burned you could try to put it in "Slot 1 or 2" and see if it would work. See if the computer would turn on and post (power on self test) you know when it turns on and starts doing things and beeps and stuff.....thats called a "post" if it does it successfuly.

Hell, I'd even try the memory card that was in the burned slot and see if it would work in Slot "1" or "2" you might get lucky and the memory is still good and just the plastic of the slot burned a little.

Take a good look at the stick of memory (memory card) and make sure there's no scorched plastic on it and if there is clean it up a little (scrape it off) and try it.

Good Luck

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Thanks, Lanin.

I cleaned the card and one pin was fried to a crisp. It will tun on and do the power test, read tjhe cdrom then freeze up. I'll go get a new card tomorrow.

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I put a new card in and it still only reads to the cdrom then freezes. I can get the bios but dont know what to change to make it work.

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slap it

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T, just because you can paper a room . . . (PS, install smoke alarms)

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1 beep Memory refresh failure Bad memory


but...how to fix. slapping it isn't workin.

I tried it in the first slot and it wouldn't even read just non stop beep. just a beep in the second slot, it will read it til cdrom then stop. no noise.

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from the picture, it looks like your mainboard was burned as well and not just the memory slot. if that's the case you'll need the get a new one.

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shit. thats what i thought. thats one thing i cant do.

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why not? mobo's are dirt cheap

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Why that pic reminds me of tower two I don't no.

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motherboard = fux0red, get another one, like $70

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