Fried RAM and MoBo

[agentK]

Hi,

One day, I smelled that all too familiar burning electronics so I pulled the plug on my Desktop. I automatically assumed it was my PS (not the first time that happened).
After 5 months, a friend recently bought a new CPU and gave me his 500w PS. He also gave me a 1gb PC3200 DDR module. I thought great, I would finally get to fix my desktop...I installed the PS and then proceeded to install the memory module when this greeted me...

http://i66.photobucket.com/alb...2/agentk98/NCP3200.jpg
http://i66.photobucket.com/alb.../agentk98/CIMG2235.jpg

I have a Biostar P4M800-M7A v7.2 and an NCP 512 memory module (PC3200).

I have yet to take a picture of the MoBo but the slot also has the burned areas. I installed the 1gb in the neighboring slot and everything worked fine. In fact, im typing on this desktop right now.

Any ideas what caused the short? faulty memory module? faulty board?

 

[ShadowFlareX]

I'd probably gone pale seeing the burnt mark on the RAM. Could be dozens of things that caused the short, but one thing I would do in your situation is to memtest the burnt stick. So remove the good stick and just have the burnt stick installed, memtest it.

But it's understandable if you don't feel like doing that, cause who knows what would happen

 

[lopri]

I think it's the board. Same thing happened to my X-Fi sound card on 680i two years ago.

 

[agentK]

Yeah, no safe way to do this I suppose. I either risk ruining the remaining memory slot (making the board useless since I only have 2 slots) or destroying my remaining memory.

Thought I'd try the forums in case it was a known problem.

Thanks guys