Daily Practicum #2, Jan 17, Day 9

Today I tested out the computer I have been working on for the past few days and, it was horrible. When I turned on the computer I noticed that there was some what I originaly though was dust coming out of the CPU and RAM area. Then immediately after I smelt smoke. I immediately turned off the computer and realized that either the RAM sockets or the RAM itself was smoking because 2 of the 4 RAM sticks I used were warm to the touch. I learned that this motherboard was not working to begin with which made my past few days a waste of time, besides a learning experience. After that incident I went computer hunting in the back room and I found an old HP desktop. this computer I tested and was working fine, but it only had 2 256Mb of RAM and only 40GB on the Hard Drive. I will do part hunting tomorrow.