AnarchyX6942
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I have two friends, say their names are Steve and Brad. Brad has a history of disagreements with Steve, and seems to end up getting blamed for any computer woes that Steve encounters. At a lan party (taking place at a different third friends house), Steve departed and left his computer in the basement. Brad had asked earlier to test out some memory that Steve had in his computer, and Steve refused. When Steve left, Brad removed the said memory and tested in his comp, and then replaced it when done. Allegedly, Brad mistakenly put the stick of memory in backwards. The stick of memory had two clips, an upper and a lower, it seems Brad pushed it in enough to make it click on the first clip, and then rocked the memory so that it clicked into on the first clip on the other side (he didn't bend it, I think it was just half inserted, putting it in fully backwards would also be impossible). The next day, Steve came back and booted up his computer and its apparently power cycled and he got a black screen of death. He proceeded to open up his computer and take out the memory/ He claimed it shot out like it was spring loaded, but has a history of greatly over exaggerating. Brad was able to get into the bios after he reset the cmos, however Steve took his hard drive with him when he left, so he couldn't determine if the os (Win XP if it matters) would boot. He did use a hdd that had a copy of TinyXP (not the most stable os around, and it was set up for a different comp) that started to boot, but BSODed. This caused a confrontation between the two where Steven claimed that Brad owed him $500+ for a new mobo and memory (sorry I cant for the life of me remember what type they were, I know it was an ASUS mobo though) and that there was no possible way that Brad could prove that the parts weren't broken or weakened and that even if it did boot normally on his os, it didn't mean it wouldn't fail at a latter date, and would only accept money and nothing else (popular opinion is that Steve is being a dick here, cause he wont accept NIB parts either, and wants to use this to upgrade).
My questions are, 1) is it likely that Brad fried the mobo and memory, (I would assume that there'd be some safeguard against half inserted memory)? 2) If he got into the bios and was able to boot Windows properly, is there still the possibility that both could fail from this problem at a latter date? 3) If so what are Brads options (is it repairable, replaceable, usually covered under warranty?) and 4) If this were to escalate into a legal battle, who would be at fault, Brad for messing with the memory, Steve for leaving the comp there, or perhaps the third friend whose house the comp was left at? (I'll update this later with the exact parts if it'll help) Thx.
My questions are, 1) is it likely that Brad fried the mobo and memory, (I would assume that there'd be some safeguard against half inserted memory)? 2) If he got into the bios and was able to boot Windows properly, is there still the possibility that both could fail from this problem at a latter date? 3) If so what are Brads options (is it repairable, replaceable, usually covered under warranty?) and 4) If this were to escalate into a legal battle, who would be at fault, Brad for messing with the memory, Steve for leaving the comp there, or perhaps the third friend whose house the comp was left at? (I'll update this later with the exact parts if it'll help) Thx.
