trouble with new ram

[Computer & Sound System Tech]

man you have no idea how slower my pc is with the 512mb chip in, may be
that's why i was having trouble. the two 1 gig was making my pc run faster
than before, and it was a sort of stress for it, because now i have 1.5 gb
and it's slows as hel.. i miss having 2 gig so bad.

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[JW]

Are you sure you installed them IAW with your SystemMOBOs user's manual.
Normally a pair of matched DDR2s go in slots 1 and 3 and not in slots 1 and
2.

 

[Computer & Sound System Tech]

i only have two memory slots, and the max supported by this motherboard is
4gb.

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[JW]

Are you sure you bought the correct memory for your laptop as specified in
your User's manual. You possibly bought memory that is too fast or not
correct in some other specification and therefore only one 512 dim can be
used at a time.

 

[Computer & Sound System Expert]

well as i said previously it's possible i noticed that the original ram
operate at 533mhz and the new one at 667mhz, now on the label and on the web
site it says they are compatible, but i don't know if that is the problem
and unfortunatly i don't have money to get some that are using 533mhz so i
can't test it. butthe whole 2 gig is or was being used when i had it, now i
have one gig and a 512mb on and windows is using all of it. so i don't know
what the problem is specifically.

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[JW]

Are you saying that you now have 1.5 GB working?
It Vista all memory must be running at the same speed.

 

[Computer & Sound System Expert]

yes, it is working but slow as hell. i had better performance with the two
gig. only had a automatic reboot once during the loading of the display, but
i believe vista was having a bad day....... ps: don't ask me to explain
it..... because after this "bad day" it hasn't made any trouble. but i'm
running it in testing mode(meaning i'm purposely keeping the ram (the one
gig chip) warm by working it, and rebooting often to see if the incident
will happen again.

what i'm doing is testing both of my chip to see if i have a defective chip,
that way i could go to centon(the maker of the 1gig chip) and tell them: "ok
yes i had a problem before, and you told me to run diagnosis which didn't
find anything but i narrowed it down to one chip being bad" hopefully i'll
be able to say that, if both of them reproduce the error then there's not
much i can do.

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[Mike Hall - MVP]

Like I said, memory has to used in properly matched pairs. For now, just
find the pairing that works best until such time as you can get a matched
pair..

 

[JW]

If you do not have a Ready Boost capable 2GB flash drive installed I suggest
you get one, format it Fat32 and configure it for Ready Boost. Ready Boost
acts a cache memory for your paging file and may give you a real performance
boost for not much money. I have a 2GB USB flash on my desktop and a 2GB SD
card on my laptop and it really helps these 1GB memory Vista systems.

 

[Computer & Sound System Expert]

actually readyboost imbeeded my system, so bad i had it disabled completly
to save system resorces(sorry for spelling), i think i will try a complete
system restore to get rid of any old drivers that could give me a blue
screen and this time around i want to keep my laptop simple instead of
having a lot of software, that could destailize my system, i'll have the
minimum. but it'll take me a few days to do a complete backup of all the
important info that i have like the license of the programs i had bought.
cuz i would hate to realise that i can't use that program anymore like my
fax software, or my caller-id program.

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[Computer & Sound System Expert]

decided to clean the system first to see if it would help by uninstalling
any software i don't use often. hopefully my free hard drive space will go
up, and so will the performance. and my registry will get smaller too. if
this doesn't improve i'm gonna do a complete restore.

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[JW]

Well it is working but not as DDR2 ram only as normal RAM since to get the
double memory speed of DDR2 you must be using a matched pair of DDR2 ram.

 

[Computer & Sound System Expert]

GREAT!!!!!! I'M IN HELL!!!!! NO MATTER WHAT I DO I'M STABBED IN THE
BACK!!!!!! WHY CAN'T IT JUST WORK, i mean i know a lot about pc, not as much
as the mvp and other geeks, but still i'm not a dummy(no offense to the
dummy's lol) and i can't even get it working the way i want.

if i use 512x2, i stabbed in the back with limited memory and limited speed,
if i use 1gbx2 i'm stabbed in the back by stupid blue screen of death but
i'm blessed with high speed,
if i use 1gbx1 and 512x1i'm stabbed in the back by slimited speed but
average amount of memory.

if the font could get bigger i'd put it at 48

if i didn't say it before I'M IN COMPUTER HELL.

BILL GATE AND MICROSOFT SHOULD BE IN HELL BY BEING FORCED TO USE A 486 OR
386, NOT ME I'M JUST THE CONSUMER. oh wait that kinda answered my question
about my i'm in hell. it's like satan he's trying to bring everyone with
him.

if linux could run most of windows programs i would switch in a sec.

ps: oh meant to say, i decided to show humility, and not call myself
"computer & sound system tech(or expert)" because even though i know a lot,
others know way much than me, so i'll just stay "sound system pro"
unofficially but officially i'll just have fun with names like daemon or
speed demon or something like this.

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[JW]

Maybe there are some 1GB cards that use less power and therefore create less
heat. You might check,
Also I suggest implementing Ready Boost again.

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

All you need is properly matched memory. Your motherboard requires it
regardless of what OS is used.

It must also be matched TO the motherboard. There is more to memory than
just size.

 

[Curious]

The OP reported in one of the previous posts in this thread that when he had
a matched pair of 1GB dims that his system apparently overheated and he
would get BSODs after some period of time.

 

[Ballistic]

man this post has gone far to the left i had to put my windows mail as full
screen to see the post.

oh after a lot of memory testing i realized that linux didn't have any
trouble with my ram, but as soon as i rebooted afte having the live cd from
linux mandrake i got a blue screen of death, and had to boot twice to get
windows working, so i'm thinking may be it's not the ram may be it's
windows(what am i saying it's always windows's fault, even when it's
hardware problem, lol...) so i'm in the middle of doing a full backup of my
important files, and windows files aren't in my back up lol, and hopefully
when i put back both of the 1 gb after the factory restore, if windows gives
me no problem then it was a program or it was windows giving me problem not
the ram(i'm praying it's not ram, i really can't afford new ram)

and to make matters worse i had a friend who had a similar laptop that i
have, and she is in desperate need of ram, the maker of the laptop gave her
only 512mb to run vista, it's crazy i have a gig when i bought it, and it
was slow as hell, imagine her.... geez that is just wrong. but i was scared
to buy her some ram because of my problem i didn't want the same trouble
that i have. hopefully if the restore works then i'll go ahead and buy it,
if not i'm gonna call acer to see what i should do for her.

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[Mike Hall - MVP]

Yes, but some motherboards are fussy and will not accept all makes, types..

 

[miss-information]

GREAT!!!!!! I'M IN HELL!!!!! NO MATTER WHAT I DO I'M STABBED IN THE
BACK!!!!!! WHY CAN'T IT JUST WORK, i mean i know a lot about pc, not as
much as the mvp and other geeks, but still i'm not a dummy(no offense to
the dummy's lol) and i can't even get it working the way i want.

if i use 512x2, i stabbed in the back with limited memory and limited
speed,
if i use 1gbx2 i'm stabbed in the back by stupid blue screen of death but
i'm blessed with high speed,
if i use 1gbx1 and 512x1i'm stabbed in the back by slimited speed but
average amount of memory.

if the font could get bigger i'd put it at 48

if i didn't say it before I'M IN COMPUTER HELL.

BILL GATE AND MICROSOFT SHOULD BE IN HELL BY BEING FORCED TO USE A 486 OR
386, NOT ME I'M JUST THE CONSUMER. oh wait that kinda answered my question
about my i'm in hell. it's like satan he's trying to bring everyone with
him.

if linux could run most of windows programs i would switch in a sec.

ps: oh meant to say, i decided to show humility, and not call myself
"computer & sound system tech(or expert)" because even though i know a
lot, others know way much than me, so i'll just stay "sound system pro"
unofficially but officially i'll just have fun with names like daemon or
speed demon or something like this.

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Is this Skybuck Flying? If not, you have a twin over on the Nvidia board.
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[Guest]

I have had this error since day one. I have tested the RAM with memtest86 and
did a chkdsk. I get a boot error the first time every day I load my computer.
Get no errors after then and after I let it site and cool down get the same
error. Just says new hardware/software windows recommands a recovery. Do the
recovery. nothing changes the next day. Post about his before not much help
on it though. They are the same as what I pulled out from 512. the board
holds 2 gb. I didn't o/c. They are paired. The chips have worked fine in
other laptops of this make. I can't find a bios upgrade for the board. Vista
did say that might be a issue. Not sure. IF anyone can help please take a
crack. If its somthing simple-to challenging. I've done it. Just looking for
a new route.

Josh