Recently I'd cleaned up my old PC (an older one with Windows XP and only like 256MB of RAM, from the early 00s) and it was running pretty well considering, but since I had some extra RAM sitting around from a broken PC I thought I'd add it to make recovering files go a little faster.
I added the new stick and tried powering it on, but it didn't even try to boot up properly (when it's working properly the power button is green and an amber light beneath it flashes occasionally, but now only the amber light comes on for a bit), there is no image whatsoever on the monitor, the fans and disc drives work for few seconds, but then it just powers off completely and when you press the power button it won't turn on again until you unplug it and plug it back in. I opened it up and noticed the new RAM stick wasn't connected properly (one end snapped in and the other didn't), and when I removed it I noticed it must not actually be compatible because it's not the same shape as the one already in there. I removed, cleaned and re-attached every single connector inside the computer but it's still not powering on.
Does this sound like anything in particular? Is it possible newer RAM than the PC could handle actually fried the motherboard? Or is it more likely the power supply is screwed up somehow?
Thanks.
I added the new stick and tried powering it on, but it didn't even try to boot up properly (when it's working properly the power button is green and an amber light beneath it flashes occasionally, but now only the amber light comes on for a bit), there is no image whatsoever on the monitor, the fans and disc drives work for few seconds, but then it just powers off completely and when you press the power button it won't turn on again until you unplug it and plug it back in. I opened it up and noticed the new RAM stick wasn't connected properly (one end snapped in and the other didn't), and when I removed it I noticed it must not actually be compatible because it's not the same shape as the one already in there. I removed, cleaned and re-attached every single connector inside the computer but it's still not powering on.
Does this sound like anything in particular? Is it possible newer RAM than the PC could handle actually fried the motherboard? Or is it more likely the power supply is screwed up somehow?
Thanks.