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I have an E-machines computer with a 2.70 ghz mother board and a 40 GB Hard
Drive it came with 256mb of Ram . A questionable repair man added 512 mb of
Generic Ram and the computer kept rebooting, so he replaced it with 512 mb of
high performance Ram , will this high performance ram hurt my computer
I now have 760 mb of Ram total in my computer.
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charles cannon wrote:
> I have an E-machines computer with a 2.70 ghz mother board and a 40
> GB Hard Drive it came with 256mb of Ram . A questionable repair man
> added 512 mb of Generic Ram and the computer kept rebooting, so he
> replaced it with 512 mb of high performance Ram , will this high
> performance ram hurt my computer
> I now have 760 mb of Ram total in my computer.

Is it 'working'?

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If it is booting properly and acting OK, then the ram is OK.

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"charles cannon" <charlescannon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have an E-machines computer with a 2.70 ghz mother board and a 40 GB Hard
> Drive it came with 256mb of Ram . A questionable repair man added 512 mb
> of
> Generic Ram and the computer kept rebooting, so he replaced it with 512 mb
> of
> high performance Ram , will this high performance ram hurt my computer
> I now have 760 mb of Ram total in my computer.
> --
> charles cannon
 
Try running Memtest86+, this runs from a boot disk and should eliminate or
confirm if your high performance ram is compatible with your E-machines PC.
Let it run for as long as you can, 2,4,6,8 or more hours, if no errors by
then your ram is OK.
See: http://www.memtest.org/

As for gaining any speed because it's "high performance", not likely.
The biggest speed boost will be from the jump from 256MB to 760MB.

JS

"charles cannon" <charlescannon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have an E-machines computer with a 2.70 ghz mother board and a 40 GB Hard
> Drive it came with 256mb of Ram . A questionable repair man added 512 mb
> of
> Generic Ram and the computer kept rebooting, so he replaced it with 512 mb
> of
> high performance Ram , will this high performance ram hurt my computer
> I now have 760 mb of Ram total in my computer.
> --
> charles cannon
 
You have to check the motherboard specifications for the Ram?
Does E_machine support documenting your motherboard?

"JS" wrote:

> Try running Memtest86+, this runs from a boot disk and should eliminate or
> confirm if your high performance ram is compatible with your E-machines PC.
> Let it run for as long as you can, 2,4,6,8 or more hours, if no errors by
> then your ram is OK.
> See: http://www.memtest.org/
>
> As for gaining any speed because it's "high performance", not likely.
> The biggest speed boost will be from the jump from 256MB to 760MB.
>
> JS
>
> "charles cannon" <charlescannon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:B5860620-D8C6-4291-816D-AEF226445F28@microsoft.com...
> >I have an E-machines computer with a 2.70 ghz mother board and a 40 GB Hard
> > Drive it came with 256mb of Ram . A questionable repair man added 512 mb
> > of
> > Generic Ram and the computer kept rebooting, so he replaced it with 512 mb
> > of
> > high performance Ram , will this high performance ram hurt my computer
> > I now have 760 mb of Ram total in my computer.
> > --
> > charles cannon
>
>
>
 
What seems to be the problem?

charles cannon wrote:

> I have an E-machines computer with a 2.70 ghz mother board and a 40 GB Hard
> Drive it came with 256mb of Ram . A questionable repair man added 512 mb of
> Generic Ram and the computer kept rebooting, so he replaced it with 512 mb of
> high performance Ram , will this high performance ram hurt my computer
> I now have 760 mb of Ram total in my computer.
 
From the sound of it, the High Performance RAM worked and the standard
didn't.
Unless you're having problems, I would leave it alone.
Having a higher quality RAM installed will not harm your computer.
The cheap stuff might have.

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> What seems to be the problem?
>
> charles cannon wrote:
>
>> I have an E-machines computer with a 2.70 ghz mother board and a 40 GB
>> Hard
>> Drive it came with 256mb of Ram . A questionable repair man added 512 mb
>> of
>> Generic Ram and the computer kept rebooting, so he replaced it with 512
>> mb of
>> high performance Ram , will this high performance ram hurt my computer
>> I now have 760 mb of Ram total in my computer.
>
 
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