miles37

Problem solved at: http://www.pchelpforum.com/xf/threads/bought-wrong-ram-desire-help-to-find-correct-ram.143709/page-2#post-919793 Thank you very much for your assistance KenB. It was your reply here which prompted me to compare the notches etc and take the photos which enabled the problem to be solved over there. Cheers, Miles.

Here are some pictures of the RAM I bought: [ATTACH=CONFIG]1797[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]1798[/ATTACH] >.> I think this is server RAM. I found this OTHER(not mine) ebay page http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1GB-ELPIDA-PC2-5300F-555-ECC-SERVER-RAM-MEMORY-SM15-/270959026809 which looks like the same thing but with a very different description.. I then searched server RAM in google images and they all look similar to this one, with the jacket.

Hi. Ok, so... I'm looking to get the best deal I can on RAM by buying second hand on eBay; I have a very limited budget which I'm willing to spend on RAM or else I won't buy any at all. I'm looking for 2x1GB RAM. Because I'm looking for a good deal, I need to be as flexible as I can, so I need to know exactly which specs actually have to match in order for new RAM to be compatible with my PC. Using the information on my presently installed and fully functional RAM, alongside recommendations from the DELL website, and the 'crucial' scan, I bought on eBay some RAM which I thought should be compatible with my PC. Well, it wasn't compatible, as the notches did not line up. I will now provide all the information I have available to me regarding the RAM I currently have in my computer, and then all the information I have regarding my newly purchased and incompatible RAM. What I hope is that someone here, who understands what all the different RAM specs refer to, will be able to tell me exactly which specs I have mismatched thus leading to the incompatibility of my purchased RAM with my PC. The reason for this is so that I can use this new knowledge to return to eBay and this time purchase correct RAM, but with as much flexibility as possible regarding the specs which do not need to match. If however, it is the case that all of the essential information regarding the newly purchased RAM does indeed match with what SHOULD be compatible with my PC, then by deduction the eBay seller must have in fact provided me with incorrect information regarding his RAM, and I must therefore go and purchase new RAM using the same parameters, and just hope I am provided with correct information next time from the relevant seller. Fully function RAM in my PC already: (2x) Crucial: 512mb; 240-PIN; UNBUFF; DIMM 64MX64; DDR2 PC; IRX8; PC2-4200U-444-12-ZZ; 533; CL4 (2x) Nanya: 256mb; 1Rx16; PC2-4200U-444-12-C1 Crucial Scan Results: http://www.crucial.com/systemscanner/viewscanbyid.aspx?id=2201BD5031D926C3 DELL website results: http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/category.aspx?c=us&category_id=6436&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd&mfgpid=167500&chassisid=8238 Newly purchased RAM, incompatible with my PC: (2x) Elpida - Limited information on cards themselves: 1GB; 2Rx8; PC2-5300F-555 11B0 Information on eBay product page: [TABLE=width: 975, align: center] [TR] [TD]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ELPIDA-DDR2-1GB-2RX8-PC2-5300F-555-/150955010525?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&nma=true&si=tRvMnRRNDrNW%2BZeKbcjJF2y%2Bw3c%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc There, that is now all the information I have at my disposal. It should be plenty enough information that someone who has a good understanding of RAM should be able to provide me the advice I desire, and need in order to move forwards. I apologise to anyone who feels the prelude lacks concision, but I wanted to make sure my requirements were fully understood as I've already tried to ask this question at the pchelpforum.com with so far unfruitful replies. Many Thanks, Miles. [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE]

Cheers KenB, that did it! =) (System Restore) - I am surprised though, that depite the restore, Google search remembered that I'd been to this website o_O

As I said, I tried doing that already; nothing happens... That is apparently for changing keyboard layout, recognizable alphabets/languages etc... i.e. What I should've done in the first place! HOWEVER, what I DID do, was install a bulgarian language pack.... This HASN'T changed my keyboard layout nor my recognizable languages, what it HAS done, is changed the whole windows xp user interface to bulgarian... Which makes it EXTREMELY difficult to navigate and alter anything in windows... So, what I need help with, is reverting back to the English Language Pack, or somehow getting my windows xp UI(user interface) back to English...

Hi. I am learning Bulgarian, and I all I wanted to do was to set up my keyboard so I could type in Cyrrilic as well as Latin; I'd found some cyrrilic keyboard stickers on ebay, I was going to find out how to make my keyboard bilingual first, and then order these... Anyway... So first thing I did, I went to the microsoft download centre and downloaded the Bulgarian language pack. The installation instructions were all in Bulgarian, so I didn't actually know what I was choosing... Anyway, at one point, faced with a warning symbol(black triangle with yellow filling and black ! inside) and an option of Da/Ne(Yes/No) I selected Da; at this point, my pc restarted and everything from then was in Bulgarian... I didn't actually want to change my interface to Bulgarian; all I wanted to do was to have a bilingual keyboard, which could switch between the English-Latin and Bulgarian-Cyrrilic alphabets. I've tried going to the control panel->(What I think is)Regional Language Settings and playing about in there, switching all the drop-downs to UK English, and messing with some other check-boxes etc(I don't actually know what they say because they're in Bulgarian...), but no luck. Some of these alterations have led to the PC restarting, but it has still come back as Bulgarian. I've also been back to the microsoft download centre to try and download the English language pack, but it won't let me... It says it's for special users only or something, and only tells me I should get windows 7(or something)... So... Pleeeeease help me out. Note: If you instruct me on what to do, please note that everything is in Bulgarian so I won't be able to read it >.>, so I will need to be instructed by the symbols, or the relative positions of tabs/options... Cheers, Miles.. N.B. I already had the English Language Pack(it came with windows) before I downloaded the Bulgarian one.