So, I shouldn’t buy whatever this weeks special is from Compusa (Centon)
Is there a certan brand, I don’t know that I can bring myself to pay $80 for 512MB ram. I think we paid no more than $400 for the comp. I can’t make heads nor tails of all this stuff, PRICEWATCH is watching the price, but I have no Idea what the products are.
Well, I was thinking of playing Light and dark, but I would have had to upgrade my grafics card, I don’t like spending money. Plus I will have to go to school soon, so I won’t have tons of free time. Mostly I play Warcraft, but I havent played that in a while. I can get by with what I have, but somtimes this comp lags.
Yea, it should be. In my experience bad ram is one of the most prevalent problems when someone’s building a computer on the cheap. Hopefully it’ll work out for you but I’d check to see if you can rma first.
This is mostly just from reading message boards and watching loads of people troubleshoot. The other thing I’ve seen is that some bios’ hate certain brands and models of ram, especially cheap.
yeah, this case was pretty much cut and dry. I take the memory out and it boots, I put it in and there is a pink line down my screen and it doesn’t do anything.
Heh, yea, that sounds pretty straightforward. It’s more annoying to pin down when the computer ‘sorta’ works, ‘sorta’ boots, but ends up with random BSODs, restarts and crashes.
since we’re geeking out in here on computer stuff, i thought i should point out for those who don’t know that Tom’s Hardware is running a 10th anniversary contest with some sweet computer gear as prizes…
Heh, well, as much as I am right there with the Microsoft complaints, in this instance Windows really is doing its job. In fact, I’ve cured the majority of my BSODs by fixing a hardware problem. Not to defend ol’ Billy or nothin’, but if your hardware is failing and corrupting files, how can you blame the OS? I’ll add bad PSUs as second on my list to bad ram.
I run win2k, and on this computer, I think the only serious issue I’ve ever had has resulted from me doing something boneheaded… like simply rebooting when a rather poorly written java app hanged for the umpteenth time (this without any three finger salutes)… but it gave me the excuse to go ahead and get another hard drive, 300 gigs this time, since I was going to have to reinstall windows anyway…