How to tell of ram is fried

[liamdack03]

Is there a way to tell if my ram is fried?

 

[Darkbreeze]

Why do you THINK it's fried? We'd need a lot more of the backstory to even begin to answer a question like that.

Generally speaking, if it won't boot using the memory you have, trying only one stick at a time, and it will using other memory, there's a good chance it's bad or "fried". You may need to borrow or buy at least one other stick of memory to find out if it won't boot at all using the memory you have.

Are you getting any error codes when you try to boot the system? Does your motherboard have an error code LED on it, or do you have a system speaker attached to the motherboard in order to hear beep codes? If you do not, it will make it more difficult to determine than if you did.

 

[liamdack03]

My friend is selling me 2 ddr4 ram cards and he knows 1 is fried the trouble is he doesn’t know which one is, and I understand that a fried ram can damage my mobo, so was trying to figure out which one is fried so I don’t mess up mobo

 

[Darkbreeze]

There is no way to tell which module is the bad one unless there are visual signs of damage to it without installing it or having specialized equipment to the best of my knowledge. Honestly, I've never seen or heard of bad memory causing damage to a motherboard unless it was severely abused.

Did the memory cause damage to your friends motherboard that it was last installed in? If not, then I'd suspect it won't with yours either. Likely, the bad stick simply won't work. But I'd check with him on that to see if something else was damaged or not.