Reply #10: Don't worry about heat. Memory chips don't throw much heat [View All]

[sangh0]

As far as the bad memory chip goes, it didn't KILL your computer. It may have rendered it inoperable for a period of time, but replacing it demonstrated that the rest of the computer was still alive.

If the battery in your car died, the car won't start, but you didn't kill the entire car. You just replace the battery, and the car works again.

What probably caused your problems is that due to the bad memory chip, the software malfunctioned (because the software is stored in (the malfunctioning) memory when you run it) and wrote some crap to your hard drive, thereby necesitating the refreshing of your drive and the re-installation of your software.