Laptop Appears to Be Dead

[ParatoOptimal]

I touched and maybe unlatched one stick of RAM before I noticed I hadn't removed the battery. Since then, there's no response from the laptop. It's a Dell D630 Core2Duo. I had just bought it when this happened a few years back. I've seen numerous vids on Youtube of people upgrading their RAM without removing the battery. I'm thinking this laptop is toast. I'm thinking of stripping out some screws, the WiFi card, optical drive and RAM. The screen is flawless but I have no use for it. I do have another D630 as a 2nd backup.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

 

[lakedude]

You did this years ago and are just getting around to fixing it now? I've sparked a RAM chip using improper grounding techniques and killed the RAM. You may have killed a stick of RAM but not the computer. Try one stick at a time.

We have some systems at work that will not boot if any one of 4 sticks of RAM is bad. We take all the sticks out and then test them one at a time to find the bad stick.

 

[ParatoOptimal]

Thank you. I thought if I shorted the RAM I shorted the RAM slot. Yes, I got it two or three years ago. I've had many other later models with better CPUs to work on that have kept me away from it.