new ram installed

[Guest charles cannon]

I have an E-machines computer with a 2.70 ghz mother board and a 40 GB Hard

Drive it came with 256mb of Ram . A questionable repair man added 512 mb of

Generic Ram and the computer kept rebooting, so he replaced it with 512 mb of

high performance Ram , will this high performance ram hurt my computer

I now have 760 mb of Ram total in my computer.

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charles cannon

[Guest Shenan Stanley]

Re: new ram installed

 

charles cannon wrote:

> I have an E-machines computer with a 2.70 ghz mother board and a 40

> GB Hard Drive it came with 256mb of Ram . A questionable repair man

> added 512 mb of Generic Ram and the computer kept rebooting, so he

> replaced it with 512 mb of high performance Ram , will this high

> performance ram hurt my computer

> I now have 760 mb of Ram total in my computer.

 

Is it 'working'?

 

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[Guest Ron Badour]

Re: new ram installed

 

If it is booting properly and acting OK, then the ram is OK.

 

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"charles cannon" <charlescannon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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>I have an E-machines computer with a 2.70 ghz mother board and a 40 GB Hard

> Drive it came with 256mb of Ram . A questionable repair man added 512 mb

> of

> Generic Ram and the computer kept rebooting, so he replaced it with 512 mb

> of

> high performance Ram , will this high performance ram hurt my computer

> I now have 760 mb of Ram total in my computer.

> --

> charles cannon

[Guest JS]

Re: new ram installed

 

Try running Memtest86+, this runs from a boot disk and should eliminate or

confirm if your high performance ram is compatible with your E-machines PC.

Let it run for as long as you can, 2,4,6,8 or more hours, if no errors by

then your ram is OK.

See: http://www.memtest.org/

 

As for gaining any speed because it's "high performance", not likely.

The biggest speed boost will be from the jump from 256MB to 760MB.

 

JS

 

"charles cannon" <charlescannon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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>I have an E-machines computer with a 2.70 ghz mother board and a 40 GB Hard

> Drive it came with 256mb of Ram . A questionable repair man added 512 mb

> of

> Generic Ram and the computer kept rebooting, so he replaced it with 512 mb

> of

> high performance Ram , will this high performance ram hurt my computer

> I now have 760 mb of Ram total in my computer.

> --

> charles cannon

[Guest Dave]

Re: new ram installed

 

You have to check the motherboard specifications for the Ram?

Does E_machine support documenting your motherboard?

 

"JS" wrote:

> Try running Memtest86+, this runs from a boot disk and should eliminate or

> confirm if your high performance ram is compatible with your E-machines PC.

> Let it run for as long as you can, 2,4,6,8 or more hours, if no errors by

> then your ram is OK.

> See: http://www.memtest.org/

>

> As for gaining any speed because it's "high performance", not likely.

> The biggest speed boost will be from the jump from 256MB to 760MB.

>

> JS

>

> "charles cannon" <charlescannon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:B5860620-D8C6-4291-816D-AEF226445F28@microsoft.com...

> >I have an E-machines computer with a 2.70 ghz mother board and a 40 GB Hard

> > Drive it came with 256mb of Ram . A questionable repair man added 512 mb

> > of

> > Generic Ram and the computer kept rebooting, so he replaced it with 512 mb

> > of

> > high performance Ram , will this high performance ram hurt my computer

> > I now have 760 mb of Ram total in my computer.

> > --

> > charles cannon

>

>

>

[Guest Bob I]

Re: new ram installed

 

What seems to be the problem?

 

charles cannon wrote:

> I have an E-machines computer with a 2.70 ghz mother board and a 40 GB Hard

> Drive it came with 256mb of Ram . A questionable repair man added 512 mb of

> Generic Ram and the computer kept rebooting, so he replaced it with 512 mb of

> high performance Ram , will this high performance ram hurt my computer

> I now have 760 mb of Ram total in my computer.

[Guest NotMe]

Re: new ram installed

 

From the sound of it, the High Performance RAM worked and the standard

didn't.

Unless you're having problems, I would leave it alone.

Having a higher quality RAM installed will not harm your computer.

The cheap stuff might have.

 

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"Bob I" <birelan@yahoo.com> wrote in message

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> What seems to be the problem?

>

> charles cannon wrote:

>

>> I have an E-machines computer with a 2.70 ghz mother board and a 40 GB

>> Hard

>> Drive it came with 256mb of Ram . A questionable repair man added 512 mb

>> of

>> Generic Ram and the computer kept rebooting, so he replaced it with 512

>> mb of

>> high performance Ram , will this high performance ram hurt my computer

>> I now have 760 mb of Ram total in my computer.

>