Hey. I accidently installed a 2gb stick in my HP Mini 311-1000NR while it was on. I THOUGHT it was turned it off and I TOTALLY forgot about the battery. Fourtanetly, it still boots and everything looks fine. The only problem is that it's only showing up as the original 1 gb of ram.
Is the stick bad or did I possibly ruin the mem card slot all together? Thank you.
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Mr_Mysterious Like...duuuuuude
Mr. Mysterious -
Yikes.. I guess you can swap the both of them to see if the new one is still OK in the other slot lol.
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The machine still works and yes, I restarted. I just RMAed the ram stick. Unfortunately, the other stick is soldered into the mobo
So does that ruin the slot??
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moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate
It shouldn't have caused any damage.
Many people hot-plug ram when they need to hot-flash it after a bad SPD flash.
As long as you put it in carefully (without shorting any pins). -
You probably killed the RAM chip.
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tilleroftheearth Wisdom listens quietly...
You're lucky it was only the RAM that is dead.
I've seen a MB in a Dell 1330 that got fried by leaving the battery in and switching RAM. - Only cost $400 too! Ouch.
Installed RAM while power was on!!!! EEKKK!!
Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Jeffito123, Aug 27, 2010.