bbgunshot
Well-Known Member
So I had my computer built around August/September of last year. The specs are
Intel Pentium 4 550 3.4GHZ LGA775 Cpu Processor
2GB DDR2 Single Memory Chip PC2 6400
250GB Serial Ata Sata 7200RPM Hard Drive
I use windows XP (I will be upgrading this eventually. I'm simply lazy and don't want to have to uninstall everything, then reinstall everything. I have considered using parallels but don't know much about partitioning my Hard drive. I could also use help on this matter)
I have tried multiple times to upgrade my RAM to at least 4 gigs. I tried first with 2 separate 2 gig sticks of DDR2 ram and they wern't compatible (even though they were the same speed.) I then tried again with 2 identical sticks of Kingston RAM. This also didn't work.
After my second try I figured out (what I think might be) the problem. My Nvidia GeForce 210 graphics card didn't like the ram. It is possible that the ram was over 1024mb of speed, but I didn't think it was. If my memory is correct my computer only recognized 3 gigs of ram and my background and everything was all screwed up because of my graphics card.
I was hoping for some suggestions or help with this problem so I might be able to improve my computers amount of RAM. And upgrade to Windows 7.
TL;DR? Don't have any constructive advice? Then don't bother posting here. Just go away please.
Intel Pentium 4 550 3.4GHZ LGA775 Cpu Processor
2GB DDR2 Single Memory Chip PC2 6400
250GB Serial Ata Sata 7200RPM Hard Drive
I use windows XP (I will be upgrading this eventually. I'm simply lazy and don't want to have to uninstall everything, then reinstall everything. I have considered using parallels but don't know much about partitioning my Hard drive. I could also use help on this matter)
I have tried multiple times to upgrade my RAM to at least 4 gigs. I tried first with 2 separate 2 gig sticks of DDR2 ram and they wern't compatible (even though they were the same speed.) I then tried again with 2 identical sticks of Kingston RAM. This also didn't work.
After my second try I figured out (what I think might be) the problem. My Nvidia GeForce 210 graphics card didn't like the ram. It is possible that the ram was over 1024mb of speed, but I didn't think it was. If my memory is correct my computer only recognized 3 gigs of ram and my background and everything was all screwed up because of my graphics card.
I was hoping for some suggestions or help with this problem so I might be able to improve my computers amount of RAM. And upgrade to Windows 7.
TL;DR? Don't have any constructive advice? Then don't bother posting here. Just go away please.