PC running too slow after misplacing RAM

Bogdan Baljozovic

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Jan 9, 2015
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Firstly, I misplaced a RAM and turned on my computer.
It started so i thought it's all ok, but after couple seconds it started to smell. Then I turned my PC off, and tried to find where is the problem, so I found that my RAM is not placed well. I rotated it for 180 degrees, so it wasn't placed.
After that my HDD was fried, tried it on couple PCs and it doesn't work at all.
But that is not the only problem, problem is that after that I saw that my PC is too slow. In first picture after turning it on it stays for 30 seconds. So I am aftaid that it is not only HDD that is bad now.
I want to ask you if anyone knows is it CPU problem, or maybe Motherboard, because I dont know why is it that slow now.
CPU: AMD Athlon X2 240
Motherboard: MSI K9N6PGM2-V2
RAM: 2x 2GB DDR2
 
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That RAM stick/slot probably got fried try to power it on without it. HDD may be damaged as well. All in all don't switch it on for a few hours, let it cool down for a bit, make sure everything is placed well and after removing that RAM and replacing HDD you should be up and running, hopefully at least.

ilicalek

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Jul 20, 2014
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That RAM stick/slot probably got fried try to power it on without it. HDD may be damaged as well. All in all don't switch it on for a few hours, let it cool down for a bit, make sure everything is placed well and after removing that RAM and replacing HDD you should be up and running, hopefully at least.
 
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