Prevent RAM disaster
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- Jun 17, 2015
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if you are not going to stick it inside the microwave oven, or remove and insert it with hte pc turned on, don't see how you will fry something by adding a ram module to a motherboard
a bit negtive from your part
sounds like you need to watch all the pc assembly guide videos on youtube, austin evans just uploaded one of those
insert the ram module in the ram slot, with the pc turned off, then turn it on, stop worrying with frying the pc, or burn the house, the pc is here to help you, not to be afraid of it
a bit negtive from your part
sounds like you need to watch all the pc assembly guide videos on youtube, austin evans just uploaded one of those
insert the ram module in the ram slot, with the pc turned off, then turn it on, stop worrying with frying the pc, or burn the house, the pc is here to help you, not to be afraid of it
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The "wrong type of RAM" won't correctly sit in the slot without a fight due to different keying - the plastic tabs inside the slot and the matching notches on the DIMM's contact edge. The worst that could happen if you forced the DIMM in anyway when it clearly doesn't fit would be a physically broken slot, motherboard and DIMM due to flex and use of excessive force with possible frying/fire from shorted pins if you attempt to turn it on.
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No RAM is made for specific boards, that's why 'standards' are called 'standards' and devices based on standards are meant to be generally interchangeable. Due to the complexity behind faster DDR standards though, tolerances are becoming increasingly tight and the number of CPU-motherboard-RAM combinations which may fail to reach full specs can be expected to increase.
The closest thing to "exclusive" on the DIY market is the QVL where vendors have pre-tested specific configurations and confirmed them to work as intended to spare people the trial-and-error "will DIMM X work on motherboard Y" where you never know for certain until you try it if it isn't on the QVL.
In some laptops and prebuilt systems, some vendors put (or used to) white lists in the BIOS to limit choices to vendor-specific or even model-specific modules.
The closest thing to "exclusive" on the DIY market is the QVL where vendors have pre-tested specific configurations and confirmed them to work as intended to spare people the trial-and-error "will DIMM X work on motherboard Y" where you never know for certain until you try it if it isn't on the QVL.
In some laptops and prebuilt systems, some vendors put (or used to) white lists in the BIOS to limit choices to vendor-specific or even model-specific modules.
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