Re: [Hampshire] OT [tech] result of overloading memory slots…

It's more likely that the BIOS will have a fit when you boot the machine.
Regardless it certainly won't damage your machine.

2010/1/16 Lisi <hantslug@???>

> I have googled, but can't seem to frame the question in a
> machine-comprehensible form. At least, I am not getting usable answers.
> :-(
>
> If a motherboard has, say, 3 memory slots, with an overall maximum of one
> GB,
> and there is 512 MB RAM in each of two of the slots, i.e. the overall limit
> has already been reached; what happens if you put another 512 MB in the
> third
> slot? And how fast might it happen? In other words, could everything be
> fine on the first boot up after installation, but lie down and die
> thereafter?
>
> Put otherwise, could too much RAM fry the mobo, and could it not do so
> until
> the second boot up after installation?
>
> TIA
> Lisi
>
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