Author: Lisi Date: To: hampshire Subject: [Hampshire] OT [tech] result of overloading memory slots?
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?
