upgrading ram??

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qwertyman

hi, im hoping someone can help me out plz! Basically i want to upgrade
my ram on my time pc. only i dont know what type of ram i need and dont
wana buy the wrong one obviously! so i need to know if any1 can tell me
how to find out what ram i have? and also out to find out my time pc's
model number is? sorry i know nothing about pc's lol

thankyou :)
 
qwertyman said:
hi, im hoping someone can help me out plz! Basically i want to upgrade
my ram on my time pc. only i dont know what type of ram i need and dont
wana buy the wrong one obviously! so i need to know if any1 can tell me
how to find out what ram i have? and also out to find out my time pc's
model number is? sorry i know nothing about pc's lol

thankyou :)
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Go to www.crucial.com and take the RAM test. It will tell you what RAM
your computer needs.

Alias
 
qwertyman said:
hi, im hoping someone can help me out plz! Basically i want to upgrade
my ram on my time pc. only i dont know what type of ram i need and dont
wana buy the wrong one obviously! so i need to know if any1 can tell me
how to find out what ram i have? and also out to find out my time pc's
model number is? sorry i know nothing about pc's lol

thankyou :)
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Go to www.crucial.com, and click on Scan My System.
 
you can also start you machine and kepp F2 pressed to go into the bios
settings and in there in system overveiw it will list the ram you
already have installed!////a starting point perhaps!
 
qwertyman said:
thanks 4 ya replies, i cant actually use the crucial wizard becuase i
dont know my model number, but i have found out now that i have 2x
256mb DDR SD-RAM and 3rd slot free, so am i right in assuming all i
need to do is buy ram of type DDR SD-RAM??

cheers :)
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No, you're not. You need to know what kind of DDR SD-RAM to buy,
although 512MB RAM should be more than enough unless you do heavy-duty
video editing.

Alias
 
thanks 4 ya replies, i cant actually use the crucial wizard becuase i
dont know my model number, but i have found out now that i have 2x
256mb DDR SD-RAM and 3rd slot free, so am i right in assuming all i
need to do is buy ram of type DDR SD-RAM??

cheers :)
 
so what exactly do you mean by what kind? how many different type of
that type are there!! :)
 
Look again. You don't need to know anything about your PC. Crucial installs
a small ActiveX program that scans your PC and tells you what sort of
(Crucial) RAM you need.

http://www.crucial.com/systemscanner/

My own preference, though, would be to download the free Everest Home
edition (www.lavalys.com). That may give you more information, like what
sort of mainboard is in the machine, which would allow you to check the
details on what you need.

The are all sorts of DDR SDRAM available. There's PC2100, PC2700, and PC3200
for starters. (PC3200 may be compatible with the lower frequency stuff, but
it's not guaranteed.) Your system may be limited in the maximum size DIMM
you can install.

You may get away with just walking into a shop and getting some PC3200 DDR,
but it's be best to spend a little time and find what you need. There's
still a chance that you'll have trouble: some mainboards become fussier if
every memory slot is populated, for example.

Whatever you install, I recommend checking it afterwards with memtest86+
(http://www.memtest.org/).


Address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.
 
Many types. You need an "exact" match for what you now have. Or, you go by
the Crucial "RAM configurator" and buy the quantity of new RAM sticks that
you know will match each other (1-512 meg, 2-256 meg, 2-512 meg etc). Then
you retire the old RAM because you don't know exactly what it is anyway and
may cause a conflict with the new.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Can I use 2-256's and 1-512 on emachine amd athelon 64 processor to get the
1gb. Or should I go with 4-256? I have two computers and am trying to
upgrade both to 1gb.
 
read the post, which you attach

dtjsdad said:
Can I use 2-256's and 1-512 on emachine amd athelon 64 processor to get the
1gb. Or should I go with 4-256? I have two computers and am trying to
upgrade both to 1gb.
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That would depend entirely on whether the motherboard supports that
configuration. It hasn't anything to do with Windows XP. Please read the
motherboard manual or contact the vendors tech support for motherboard
specific issues.
 
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