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

On 16/01/2010 12:48, Lisi wrote:
> 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?
>



The most likely things that will happen are:

* The machine will beep at you when you try to power it on.
* The BIOS will ignore anything more than 1G of memory
* The BIOS will complain you have than 1G of memory.
* The BIOS will complain your memory config is unsupported.

Chances of you physically damaging the machine by doing this are next to
nil.