new ram installed

[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.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

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'?

 

[Ron Badour]

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

 

[JS]

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

 

[Guest]

You have to check the motherboard specifications for the Ram?
Does E_machine support documenting your motherboard?

 

[Bob I]

What seems to be the problem?

 

[NotMe]

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.