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Sona2
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 Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2008 8:58 pm Post subject: 2.5 gig on XP Ram problems... |
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So, the other day the haddrive on my laptop crashed, so I bought a new harddrive, and also 2 gigs (X1) ram, I had 2X 512 installed before, and I was running home basic (pre bundled) it was running fine until the harddrive crash.
I installed a new OP on the hadrive, I installed XP, and 1 stick of 2 gigs of ram, and 1 stick of 512, but there seems to be problems, the computer crashes often sometimes I can't even get it to turn on. I thought the problem was after I installed some sound drivers (although it still could be the sound drivers) at the moment I am just running the system out of necessity on 1 gig, it seems to boot up and work. I lost my vista cd but I have a genuine key-printed under my laptop, shall I go back to vista, will the ram problems solve? |
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Keight
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Most probably there's a problem with the 2gig stick of RAM. Its either faulty or incompatible with your motherboard. What brand & model is the laptop?
Since you are experiencing issues with it not even turning on sometimes then installing Vista will more than likely just give you the same problems.
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TheYoungReservist
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| Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2008 7:22 am Post subject: |
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Maybe the problem is your hardware does not support more than 2gb of RAM....
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Psycho Bunny
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| Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2008 8:32 am Post subject: Re: 2.5 gig on XP Ram problems... |
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| Sona2 wrote: |
| I lost my vista cd but I have a genuine key-printed under my laptop, shall I go back to vista, will the ram problems solve? |
Personally I see nothing of value in Vista. You would be better off, for the moment at least , to use XP instead.
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Sona2
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| Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2008 9:31 am Post subject: |
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| Keight wrote: |
Most probably there's a problem with the 2gig stick of RAM. Its either faulty or incompatible with your motherboard. What brand & model is the laptop?
Since you are experiencing issues with it not even turning on sometimes then installing Vista will more than likely just give you the same problems. |
It might be incompatible with my motherboard,as I have a dell laptop i1520 (its old but I use it only for surfing and documents) I also have a dell XPS system which is exclusively for gaming and also doubles up as a server when I need to. I tried the ram stick in the dell xps system that handled it no problem. |
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Sona2
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| Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2008 9:33 am Post subject: |
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| TheYoungReservist wrote: |
| Maybe the problem is your hardware does not support more than 2gb of RAM.... |
I just thought, it might be a XP memory missmangment problem. |
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Sona2
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| Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2008 9:36 am Post subject: Re: 2.5 gig on XP Ram problems... |
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| Psycho Bunny wrote: |
| Sona2 wrote: |
| I lost my vista cd but I have a genuine key-printed under my laptop, shall I go back to vista, will the ram problems solve? |
Personally I see nothing of value in Vista. You would be better off, for the moment at least , to use XP instead. |
Yeah vista sucked at the start, I was one of those to fist go for a vista ultimate edition, I also have a desktop PC another dell xps system and I am running vista ultimate on it, SP1. It's been pretty good, the SP1 ironed out most of the problems. |
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TheYoungReservist
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| Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2008 2:08 pm Post subject: |
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It's a hardware problem,read the documentation to see how much RAM it supports and also try leaving the 512 out and see if the problems are still there.
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IandonlyI
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| Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2008 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Sona2 wrote: |
| TheYoungReservist wrote: |
| Maybe the problem is your hardware does not support more than 2gb of RAM.... |
I just thought, it might be a XP memory missmangment problem. |
XP supports upto 3 GBs of RAM. Goto crucial.com and scan you system to see what is the most it supports. How old is the laptop?
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Keight
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| Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 1:48 am Post subject: |
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| Keight wrote: |
Most probably there's a problem with the 2gig stick of RAM. Its either faulty or incompatible with your motherboard. What brand & model is the laptop?
Since you are experiencing issues with it not even turning on sometimes then installing Vista will more than likely just give you the same problems. |
It might be incompatible with my motherboard,as I have a dell laptop i1520 (its old but I use it only for surfing and documents) I also have a dell XPS system which is exclusively for gaming and also doubles up as a server when I need to. I tried the ram stick in the dell xps system that handled it no problem. |
The earlier versions of the i1520 support 667MHz (PC-5300) RAM. So it could be that your new memory is 800MHz (PC-6400) and your laptop is having compatibility issues with it.
As others have suggested go to crucial.com to scan your system to find out what memory it supports. Also try booting with just the 2GB stick in if you haven't already.
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Sona2
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| Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 5:19 pm Post subject: |
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| The scans telling me I should upgrade to 4gigs, in dual channel. |
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IandonlyI
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| Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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| The scans telling me I should upgrade to 4gigs, in dual channel. |
Unless it is XP X64 dont bother, highest memory XP addresses is 3GB. So your problem is pairing. You might have to pair.
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Sona2
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| Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Its the two gig stick, something is wrong with it, it is a cheap-o one, I was going for the pny but the tec guy in PC world suggested I go for the cheaper option. |
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