Guest ellas Posted July 11, 2003 Report Share Posted July 11, 2003 anyone broke a mobo adding extra memory,well I have now,tried putting a extra ram in and the slot was stiff as hell,anyway it went in but no sign of it in bios or windows,probaley should have left it but I swapped memory over(still those slots where stiff) and this time no post,put original back in slot no post,tried resetting the cmos etc,fans working etc,this was a supposed new mobo off ebay for £26,anyway could not find the same msi one for sale on the net so I bought a AOPEN one from dabs in there clearance for £36,same chipset and of course used all the components,booted no problems but got the windows needs to be reactivated crap,did that checked memory all accounted for,so far have noticed no problems with xp and the new mobo,in fact running like a dream seems like a better mobo,anyone know what could of happened,noticed one of the solders on the underside of the old mobo had been ground off a bit maybe pushing the ram in had done that and caused damage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted July 11, 2003 Report Share Posted July 11, 2003 forgot to say I followed craigs guide http://www.windowsforum.org/tutorials/computer.php :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted July 11, 2003 Report Share Posted July 11, 2003 could not find the same msi one for sale on the netellasWhat model MSI board was it ?I did break one slot years ago, but that was using 30 pin Simms where you had to put them in at angle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savage om Posted July 12, 2003 Report Share Posted July 12, 2003 Closest I've done is put the ram in at a funny angle, and the mobo didn't really find the ram b/c it wasn't really in the socket. Other than that, it's the occasional run in with not-compatible hardware (IE- moody mobo that wants only pc100 or pc133) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted July 12, 2003 Report Share Posted July 12, 2003 HiThe worst i did was at work one morning, (Slightly hungover) I was putting a P4 2.8 ghz in the mobo and did not match the little arrow up. It looked like it was seated ok, then i put the Heatsink and fan on, boy was that tough to do.When the pc did not post or anything, and after the rutine checks, i took the cpu out to find that about 10 pins had been flaterned :blink: opp's.My boss was not impressed <_< Tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nellie2 Posted July 12, 2003 Report Share Posted July 12, 2003 forgot to say I followed craigs guide http://www.windowsforum.org/tutorials/computer.php :lol:The tutorial doesn't seem to be there anymore Ellas! :( How is the new board? Still behaving itself? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted July 13, 2003 Report Share Posted July 13, 2003 seems fine was worried about not replacing heatsink pad but the cpu is only running at 35%-40%,mobo 23%-27%. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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