new ram installed

  • Thread starter Thread starter Guest
  • Start date Start date
G

Guest

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 said:
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.
Click to expand...

Is it 'working'?
 
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
 
You have to check the motherboard specifications for the Ram?
Does E_machine support documenting your motherboard?
 
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.
 
Back
Top