can ram kill a motherboard?

I bought and installed 2 256 meg sticks of pc 2700 ram from CompUSA and my system would not start, no post beep or anything! It powered up, fans, lights, and all. Well, I tried putting my old ram back in (1 256meg pc2100 and 1 128meg pc2100). No go on that. I tried replacing the vid card, cpu and motherboard, but I might have put the new ram in the other motherboard first, as it wouldn't boot either. Right now Im using an old kt133 system I gave my kids. Anyone heard of anything like this?

 

Could be that the RAM wasn't seated properly when you put the modules in (both old and new). Or worst case, Static gotcha. I would make sure everything is seated properly.

 

ram was seated, reseated about 10 times...static maybe, but I've done replacements and upgrades many times with no major issues!

 

i suggest first thing replacing the power supply , and if problem happens then it could be you're motherboard but im sure its the power supply

 

I have never seen ram fry mobo, I suppose is possible, I doubt thats what happened in your case.
Try this, put original ram that you know worked, then reset the CMOS.
This is done by removing the mobo battery for min, sometimes in combination of R&R of a jumper.
Provide Brand & model of PC for exact procedure.

Could be bad ram, bad timings, just incompatitable, resetting CMOS may get things back to were was.
If that works, then I would first compair specs of ram new & old, even test in another PC, or even manually set timing's of new ram and try again.
Or just return ram???

 

well last thing cud not make ur system boot is ur Ram

 

I've personally never experienced a problem with RAM frying PCs, but I suppose it could happen. Why don't you take that stuff back to Comp USA and tell them your problem and ask them to throw it into one of their machines in the pc repair shop? If it's not the RAM, motherboard, CPU, video card, then take a look at the PSU next.... Throw in another one of those and see what happens.

 

LOL.... Asus pretty much said my last response about 1 minute before I did.

 

will give removing the battery a shot, then off to comp usa for test and/or refund!

 

The battery removal yielded no improvement.I fear my board is now dead, I replaced the cpu with a known working one and put the original ram back in, but no go. No beeps, nothing!