"Unregistered" wrote in message
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Nice idea, but it doesn't quite fit the circumstances.

The burned positions on the DIMM match the correct positions on the
socket, and those positions are also burned. If it fried when it was
put in backwards, then they shouldn't match.


Here's another clue that may help: someone was apparently trying to
install more memory into the computer when this happened. (When I got
the computer back, there was only the single module, though.)

Maybe the additional module somehow caused power to be fed back through
those two pins on the existing module?

Odd but will we ever know now?