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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dvvega" data-source="post: 4399369" data-attributes="member: 524">Unfortunately from my experience with hardware, forcing any of it is a bad thing. You should never have to force memory into its slots, no matter what kind of machine you are using. I've never had to and I've changed a lot of memory in my time (used to work tech support for Parliament House here in Sydney).The fact that you forced memory hard enough to break off something (a plastic bit), indicates you most likely broke the locking piece on the memory slot. This little piece of plastic is the "click" you hear when you put your memory in. That technically is not an issue. However - there are a couple of things that may have happened besides just a little bit of plastic coming off. 1. You may have actually broken a little more than you realise, thus creating a little short circuit in the memory section, thus overloading the motherboard (very rare, but still doable).2. Your old computer's power supply was ready to give up its life anyway, and it is just a coincidence that it happened at this time.3. The memory was indeed the wrong type for you machine and this was the magic stick that decided that it had had enough and "boom".Now I doubt it is the cable. Cables in and of themselves do not carry any power in them. You may have received a surge at the "right time" to coincide with plugging it in, however you stated it was a while before it went snap, crackle, pop. This could mean your power point overloaded somehow ... do you have it sharing output? Maybe one of those 4-ways?Perhaps you didn't place the cable into the power supply fully, leaving it half-in/out ... this can cause a short circuit.Is the new cable a non-earth cable? Whereas your older cable was an earth variety? If so you are lucky you kept the old one for the new machine.Hopefully those points lead you to investigate further or at least eliminate something from your "what ifs".D</blockquote>

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