Smoked ECS Board (4 posts)

Nathaniel Roach Posted 2 years, 9 months ago Joined: 12 years, 5 months ago

Here's the story I Bought some 2nd hand memory (Kingmax 512 DDR-400 PC3200(0?) Product: RAMD32000512K) from a good friend and bought it home. I downloaded the manual for my main board (ECS M930LR) from the web (elhvb.com/mobokive/Archive/PcChips/manual/m930lr/930s15.zip) and noticed two things; 1 I could not use the two types of ram in the machine (was using 1x 256 & 1x 128 mb sdram) and; 2 I could only use/was only approved with DDR333 Thinking, like AGP the memory was backwards compatible, I proceeded. I took out the old RAM and I placed one module slightly wrong (unknowingly) and turned on the computer. Smoke came from god knows where and the system automatically shut down. No POST. I took the DDR out and put one 128 Sdram in it and now the system won’t even come up with the nVidia TNT2 Screen. I have never had this problem with memory (although I have occasionally put them in wrong, it never stuffed anything up). The ECS was quite a good Mother Board, so if possible I would like some suggestions. I will try stripping the system down and a new PSU But I don't hold high hopes. Thanks, Nathaniel

Anonymous Posted 2 years, 8 months ago Joined: N/A

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It's impossible to use DDR ram in place of SD ram. The sockets are different for both types. If you tried to fit DDR ram to a SD socket you very probably broke the DDR ram module, in which case the resulting short trashed your motherboard. As an Eleco told me, when you let the smoke out, things stop working!I suggest you look to upgrade your system - This may be your only option

Regards and good luck.

Anonymous Posted 2 years, 8 months ago Joined: N/A

DDR 400 ram will work where 333 is specified or used. Simply you have screwed up and fried the motherboard and who knows what else?? Power supply, processor, video card may have been damaged too? This sort of thing happens to most of us when we are starting off... the main thing is that you REMEMBER the lesson..!! In future make very sure things are properly seated before power on.

AGP memory backward compatable?? Sounds like you may be a bit uninformed??

Sometimes the cheapest way to do upgrades is to take the box to the local computer shop and avoid costly errors like this one.

Do your research before you attempt anything. If you are not 100% sure, don't do it.

shellysmith435 Posted 2 years, 4 months ago Joined: 2 years, 7 months ago

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Pretty well said..!!!!!!