Re: new additional ram card is not being recognised by computer.

alec wrote:
On 1 Jun, John Jordan <j...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ...(and two other kind
gents) gave me 3 good answers .... Thanks guys .... you've given me
some good gen to work on there ....tho' before i make a move though I
will get down to PC World and ask them pretty much the same set of
questions.

I wish you good luck at finding anyone at PC World who knows anything about
computers: Most of them are just well trained sales professionals.

It's just a case of catching the one teckie guy in there
who is decent enough to actually discuss .... with the others it'd be
the usuall "fetch it in"....."you should have let us put it in in the
first place" ..."and it will cost you about £50 as you will have
probably knackered the card up".

- Don't forget the worthless 5-year warranty. -

It's clear that you've got PC World's number.

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I have to say tho' that for the £15 they charge for fitting memory I'd
have saved myself some trouble. And there's all the world thinking
it's the one job that can be done on a comp by a non teckie that is
hassle free .....!!?
Thanks again ...alec

This may be somewhat OT and/or irrelevant, but last night I installed
another 1GB DDR2 533Mhz RAM in my personal INXPense computer. (I was going
to use 2GB 633MHz when I built it; but a quick parts round-up revealed that
the 2 x 1gig 667MHz sticks I'd allocated for it had vanished without trace,
and the only DDR2 I had left in stock at the time was a single 1GB stick of
533; so I used that and ordered a replica companion with my next parts
order.)

I installed the new stick in the other channel, (INXPense have only 2 RAM
slots.) powered up - and nothing. I uninstalled it and the PC worked fine on
the original IGB stick. I installed it again and powered on: POST, boot, and
working, but right-clicking My Computer (XP Pro) revealed that the os wasn't
seeing the new stick.

To cut a long story short, after pushing the new stick home very hard and
jiggling it a bit everything was OK and I am now running 2GBs.

The moral : Lots of pins = lots of connections to be made:
Obstinate/retarded connector blocks, which can appear on even the best of
boards, sometimes have trouble connecting properly.

I'm not saying this is the case here; but 'maybe worth bearing in mind.

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