Can you fry memory by scanning it???

**ShIzO** · Mar 26th, 2002, 09:34 AM

hey,

i'm looking for Crucial DDR memory and i asked that guy for some pictures of the RAM he's got. He scanned the stick with scanner and now he tells me that the stick doesn't work.

is that even possible? i mean, it's just the light...

please let me know!

**CiberTHuG** · Mar 26th, 2002, 09:37 AM

Handling it can cause it not to work. A simple static discharge.

There is nothing active in the scanner that should disturb the stick, save the fact that there are moving parts which could build a charge, possibly on the plate.

It is more likely that he has a carpeted floor.

**HarryW** · Mar 26th, 2002, 09:38 AM

I imagine it's perfectly possible. There's a motor in the scanner that moves the light along, and that means oscillating electromagnetic fields. Could be that those fields induced a current in the RAM that was high enough to fry it.

**ShIzO** · Mar 26th, 2002, 09:39 AM

okay, now he tells me it's working..... hmmm did it go bad just for a while or it's just kinda messed up already!?

**HarryW** · Mar 26th, 2002, 09:40 AM

Sounds like he just didn't put it in properly the first time.

**ShIzO** · Mar 26th, 2002, 09:44 AM

should i go for that RAM? it's a very nice price:

2 sticks of 256 Crucial DDR PC2100 CL=2.5 (

) for $135 shipped!

**CiberTHuG** · Mar 26th, 2002, 10:03 AM

Go for it. Once there is a problem, there is always a problem. It isn't self correcting.

Like Harry said, it might not've been seated well.

I had this job a number of years ago (Windows 3.1) as a LAN tech and we had a little box that would test a stick of memory for parity errors, like scanning a HDD for bad sectors.

I'd have to imagine they still make these things, I've just never priced one.

**Gimlin** · Mar 26th, 2002, 10:04 AM

As long as it works it sounds like a good deal.

**nabeels786** · Mar 26th, 2002, 11:40 AM

Originally posted by ShIzO
should i go for that RAM? it's a very nice price:

2 sticks of 256 Crucial DDR PC2100 CL=2.5 ( ) for $135 shipped!

if you're in the US, you can get 1 stick of 256mb crucial for 100$ shipped from www.newegg.com

**barrk** · Mar 26th, 2002, 11:56 AM

I fried my memory back in the 1970s........people tell me I had a wonderful time

**ShIzO** · Mar 26th, 2002, 01:35 PM

Originally posted by nabeels786

if you're in the US, you can get 1 stick of 256mb crucial for 100$ shipped from www.newegg.com

i'm in US and i pay $135 for two (2) sticks of that ram, do your math!

Originally posted by barrk

I fried my memory back in the 1970s........people tell me I had a wonderful time

when i saw you as a last poster i just knew you're gonna say that in this thread

**barrk** · Mar 26th, 2002, 01:44 PM

Am I that predictable?!?!?

**Ianpbaker** · Mar 26th, 2002, 02:20 PM

predictable yes, But we wouldn't want you any other way

Jethro · Mar 26th, 2002, 02:53 PM

Originally posted by HarryW
Sounds like he just didn't put it in properly the first time.

Total agreement Harry, asked about reseating in PC Forum....

Jethro · Mar 26th, 2002, 02:55 PM

Which reminds me of the old Apple 2C maintenance call.

Er the PC ain't working

What one you got

Apple 2C

Lift the PC three inches off the desktop and drop

***??? This is a serious problem

It reseats all the chips, problem with production run....

Gotta love those apple support guys. Worked as well.

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