Guest charles cannon Posted July 8, 2007 Posted July 8, 2007 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 Shenan Stanley Posted July 8, 2007 Posted July 8, 2007 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'? -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Guest Ron Badour Posted July 8, 2007 Posted July 8, 2007 Re: new ram installed If it is booting properly and acting OK, then the ram is OK. -- Regards Ron Badour MS MVP 1997 - 2007 "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 JS Posted July 8, 2007 Posted July 8, 2007 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 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 Dave Posted July 8, 2007 Posted July 8, 2007 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 Posted July 9, 2007 Posted July 9, 2007 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 Posted July 9, 2007 Posted July 9, 2007 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. -- A Professional Amateur...If anyone knew it all, none of would be here! CarGodZeroOne@hotmail.com Change Alpha to Numeric to reply "Bob I" <birelan@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:%23CZEx2kwHHA.3684@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > 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. >
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