Trouble With Computer Please Help

[Blackrose]

Need a little techie help here guys ...

Yesterday i tried adding up another 256mb DDR to my current 256mb DDR memory to my box ... but I inserted it the wrong way ... so the memory stick smoked ... so i removed it and reattached it the correct way ... it worked, i did have 512mb ram but here comes the problem ...

my video card looked fucked up ... windows xp says "could not start hardware (code 10)" ... i tried removing and reinstalling the vid card but still no luck ... so i tried the vid card with my other computer ... its working without problems ...

now, is it a possibility that my board got fucked up because of the memory problem i had ?

i've got another question ... the memory stick which has smoked is still working ... how can that be?

need explanations or any help ... thanks

[demented]

I'd say the MB is done for. It doesn't take much to fry one and putting a stick in backwards, would do it.

Are you sure the MB wasn't the one smoking and not the mem stick?

[Blackrose]

yep, i saw it with my eyes, its the stick that smoked ... not the mb

[KRL]

Just go buy a new motherboard and save yourself the aggravation. All it takes it a small short like that and it will never be the same, if work at all.

[Wilbo]

I would think motherboard aslso. They are easier to change out than you would think. If you have a digital camera take some pics before you dismantle it, that may be able to help you remember where all the wires go.

[goBigtime]

Hmm yeah I wouldn't use that motherboard or ram for a server or anything mission critical.

[Scootermuze]

How did you manage to put the stick into the mem bank backwards?
Is there not a slot in the stick that matches a partition in the bank to prevent such from happening?

[playa]

How the hell you could put a RAM stick wrong?
i mean the slots on the stick can only go one way

maybe upgrading a PC hardware is not your thing..