Installed a Ram stick and Computer Fried. WTF.

[harlow13]

I installed a 512Mb SDRAM chip from SpecTek into my ibook G3 and when i went to turn on the computer, bam, it was fried. Why would it do this. I heard rumors maybe if i touched the mother board with static electricity it could fry it, but how would i have touched the mother board, the sd ram slot is just under the keyboard.

 

[Bennieboy©]

are you sure?

have you tried the machine with another ram stick, if the stick is faulty the machine wont boot anyways, try with another stick.

you would have to touch the logic board, the ram slots are physically connected to the board lol

 

[robj]

In old motherboards, If you plug a RAM stick with a different voltage that the motherboard supports, you can fry your computer.

Take a look about that, If I remember well, there are two kinds of SDRAM boards, one with 3.3V and one with 5V

 

[harlow13]

are you sure?

have you tried the machine with another ram stick, if the stick is faulty the machine wont boot anyways, try with another stick.

you would have to touch the logic board, the ram slots are physically connected to the board lol

I took the ram out and the computer wouldnt run, so i took it to a mac specialist and he told me it was fried.
Maybe i touched the logic board.
Do you think its possible to install this sd chip into my imac g4?

 

[Bennieboy©]

I took the ram out and the computer wouldnt run, so i took it to a mac specialist and he told me it was fried.
Maybe i touched the logic board.
Do you think its possible to install this sd chip into my imac g4?

personally, i've read your other thread, it might be best to hand the machine over to the computer shop and tell them what you want doing to it lol, no offense

anyways no, ram for a iBook wont fit into a iMac G4's slots

 

[harlow13]

In old motherboards, If you plug a RAM stick with a different voltage that the motherboard supports, you can fry your computer.

Take a look about that, If I remember well, there are two kinds of SDRAM boards, one with 3.3V and one with 5V

How can i check my ram voltage and my mother board voltage?

 

[Bennieboy©]

How can i check my ram voltage and my mother board voltage?

look up the specs on apple.com or look at everymac.com

open up system profiler and use the information listed on the first window to find your machines specs then check those against whats listed on the sites listed above

see attachment

 

[jampat]

How can i check my ram voltage and my mother board voltage?

Ram voltage is normally on the sticker with the capacity. MB voltage will probably be online. Look for stats on the G3 with whatever processor you have and somewhere should tell you what voltage RAM you need.

 

[belvdr]

I took the ram out and the computer wouldnt run, so i took it to a mac specialist and he told me it was fried.

open up system profiler

That's likely to work.

 

[Bennieboy©]

That's likely to work.

shush, one a those moments alright

can you remove the battery cover, there should be a little sticker under it, with a serial number and some specs, dont worry about the number, can you list the specs that are written there,

 

[harlow13]

personally, i've read your other thread, it might be best to hand the machine over to the computer shop and tell them what you want doing to it lol, no offense

Well, I am not familiar with Imac G4's. Iv only owned one for two weeks, and i was runing 10.4 on my ibook g3 that fried.
So yes i am a newb to the Imac, no i am not newb to Macs.

 

[Adam0306]

How can i check my ram voltage and my mother board voltage?

The best way to make sure you don't kill the computer by putting the wrong memory in is, Pull the old one out and make sure the new one has exactly the same info on it except for the size and you should be good.