-=PCTechTalk=- Re: After formatting woes..

If you just bought the RAM off the shelf at Wal-Mart or Office Depot you 
MIGHT have bought the wrong type of RAM.  Go to www.crucial.com and use 
their utility to find the correct RAM and then compare to what you bought.

Some older and some newer motherboards need RAM in two sticks instead of 
just one.  Many in-between need just one.  If your motherboard has room for 
two banks of RAM and has only TWO slots to put RAM in, you need only one 
stick at a time.  If you have two banks of RAM and *FOUR* slots to put RAM 
into, then you need two sticks at a time.

Incorrect RAM, mismatched RAM (such as 2 speeds) RAM from two different 
manufacturers, RAM in the wrong bank or wrong slot can all cause a wide 
variety of computer errors.


Don

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janette" <janettevangelder@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 7:29 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: After formatting woes..


>I eventually removed the ram and all things are pretty stable now *touch
> wood*.
>
> Thanks to everyone for all the help :)
>
> Janette
> ~*~
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Spotta
> Sent: 26 October 2005 01:00 AM
> To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: After formatting woes..
>
> Memory is also still a firm favourite.
> Have you tried taking out all new memory so the machine is back to how it
> was pre Friday, with just the old ram in it?
>
> Also I have had machines where they only had one major crash, but the 
> crash
> caused damage to data on the hard drive which then caused random 
> problems -
> try doing a check disk.
>
> From within windows you do this by My Computer > Right click C: Drive >
> Properties > Tools > Error Checking Check Now - and then ticking both 
> boxes
> in the window that come up. It will tell you it can't be run and would you
> like to run it when the machine reboots, say yes and reboot.
>
> Be aware depending on hard drive size and if it finds errors and needs to
> fix them, this can take between 20mins and 3Hours. Do not turn the machine
> off while it is running the disk check - you will lose data.
>
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