Thread: geting more rams

Ok, to be fair, they were also fixing that intermittant power failure problem.

Can someone expand a bit on what LOM mentioned earlier .
You've got a slow and dumb ramstick (no error correction, not buffered, not registered)
That description fits my own RAM.
Will quality RAM make much difference ?

Can of worms:
Opened
This link might help but then it might confuse you even more.

Howstuffworks "Types of RAM"

I had a RAM once, one of the suffock I was told, and he was so dumb he tried to screw the other rams sometimes.
Then he wanted to fight my dad, so he got shot and we ate him.

Originally Posted by benbaaa

Ok, to be fair, they were also fixing that intermittant power failure problem.

So what did they do, replace your power supply unit ?

Originally Posted by lom

So what did they do, replace your power supply unit ?

They deleted all my photos from the last 3 years and every mp3 file. They left a few bits of porn and some word documents.

sounds like they formatted/swapped your HD and forgot to get all the extra bits backed up

Originally Posted by benbaaa

They deleted all my photos from the last 3 years and every mp3 file. They left a few bits of porn and some word documents.

Ok, so that was what got your computer up and running again.

^
see, that just illustrates the point.
You understand what you arr talking about wheras us end users don't.
The whole thing is a bit of a journey to enlightenment for me.
The fact that i can post screenshots taken from a piece of software that Surasak told me to download from a site called "geeks dot com" of all things makes me all overbrimmed with pride.
Would like to ask those bastards what they thought of the French front row changes against ireland.

Anyway.. to get back to your earlier question Frankie. I could pop down to the computer shop, but I don't have a car.
I also find threads like this fairly informative for me and i'm willing to bet shovel to shit that most of us in the world haven't a fukking clue of something that would be naturally ridiculously easy to you.
unfortunately, nobody has yet asked what club they'd recommend from 189 yards at the par 3 17th in Green Valley.

I am extremely grateful for the advice, the computer forum is by far and away my favourite on here.
Cheers all.

Installing a stick of RAM is no more physically difficult than putting a ball in the hole. The only trick to it is knowing what you have and buying more of the same (or a larger quantity)...hence the need for the software utility to aid you. If you move beyond the fact that it's computer related then the 'it's too difficult' mentality vanishes. You're installing a physical item in a physical location no different than putting a light in a socket, a key in a lock, or something in your mouth.

Now, if it were an operating system installation and you'd never done such before then to claim that doing so is a piece of cake is akin to saying that open heart surgery is easy. Though I've done such a software installation likely 1000 times already it still would not behoove me to make such a claim.

Smartarse.

Originally Posted by surasak

behoove

I don't know what to say.

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

I don't know what to say.

and that's rare becuse I'll say anything for a bit of post count.

That makes another one

Really, though, people get too intimidated by technology at times. It doesn't have to be that way. Just associate X with something else you've done and it starts to make sense.

Originally Posted by surasak

Installing a stick of RAM is no more physically difficult than putting a ball in the hole. The only trick to it is knowing what you have and buying more of the same (or a larger quantity)...hence the need for the software utility to aid you. If you move beyond the fact that it's computer related then the 'it's too difficult' mentality vanishes. You're installing a physical item in a physical location no different than putting a light in a socket, a key in a lock, or something in your mouth.

I have seen users break their motherboards fuck up RAM sticks and ruin the slots. In fact, I have seen so-calleda tech ruin a $20,000 server doing something as simple as installing a network card. you, yourself have noted the inaccuracy of the software reporting a non existent RAM type. is he now supposed to believe it?

I truly believe that CMn is out of his depth here. He could get teh mainboard model from that application he's using go tothe Mfgr website and find out the type(s) of RAM supported copy that down and go buy it. Maybe he is unsure. This is a guy that couldn't tell a serial port from a video port if they weren't color coded.

Nothing wrong with going down getting it installed; installing a set of points in 65 chev 327 is easier and requires less skill; I know alot of folks that can't or won't do that. If you're not comfortable doing something. Don't do it.

I have a car, CMn, call me.

Originally Posted by friscofrankie

I have a car, CMn, call me.

i honestly think it may be for the best.
Can you just stand in the background so I feel I have achieved something..unless i fukk it up of course.

I am not going to buy a lightbulb you know, I can do that.

Any idea of the cost of ram in thailand these days?

This thread has wet my appetite and i do like to stay ahead of the Jones's

I always felt that involving the customer in simple upgrades was a good thing. At least it gave them a sense of doing something themselves and was a bit of opportunity for education. If it was going to take more than 5 minutes, involved more serious work (driver installations, OS updates, etc), or if the customer came across as a total bleeping moron then I wouldn't go to such lengths and would check the computer in the queue.

If I were there I'd help you install it so you could edumacate yourself in the process.

Originally Posted by friscofrankie

I have a car, CMn, call me.

It won't have any doors once Cmn gets there

Originally Posted by surasak

I always felt that involving the customer in simple upgrades was a good thing. At least it gave them a sense of doing something themselves and was a bit of opportunity for education. If it was going to take more than 5 minutes, involved more serious work (driver installations, OS updates, etc), or if the customer came across as a total bleeping moron then I wouldn't go to such lengths and would check the computer in the queue.

If he's up for it I'll walk him through it. It ain;t brain surgery, with a little care and confidence anyone CAN do it. I do agree.

I remember when I built my first PC, I had read a little took an old one apart, I knew terms like RLL, MFM RAM and BIOS. No one taught me shit, I knew no one in the business. Now, I had built hundreds hi performance engines, complete custom made equipment of my own design. I had built diesel powered hydraulic cherry pickers, concrete pumps, drag bikes, and a couple a roundy-rounders. But building this first PC I was sweating like a fuckin ditch digger in july.

Have just taken out and had a look at my ram....it's kingston valueram KVR400x64c3a/512

this page tells you how to decipher all that..... ValueRAM - Desktop Memory - Desktop Memory

which tells me that I've got 512MB 400MHz DDR Non-ECC CL3 ram. (which still means pretty much nothing to me, other than it's nor DDR2), oh and it's PC3200

So, I'm guessing that I could upgrade to 1 GB by buying another 512MB ram that is exactly the same and sticking it in the second slot. (or would replacing the 512 with a new 1GB be better???)

I've got 4 slots, so do you think I can keep adding up to 2GB???

Originally Posted by NickA

..I've got 4 slots, so do you think I can keep adding up to 2GB???

Er... probably, possibly, seems likely, maybe. Don't you have a manual for your PC? Or Google the PC manufacturer and type and find out what the max RAM is?

Gosh, you guys make it harder than it needs to be.

Download the utility that I posted for CMN and run it...click on the mainboard tab. All the information you need about the mainboard is there. Manufacturer, model, date of the BIOS, etc.

Originally Posted by NickA

I've got 4 slots, so do you think I can keep adding up to 2GB???

I'd bet a dozen beers you can upgrade to 4GB.

You might even have a dual-channel DDR motherboard (which would give a 5-10% performance boost if you populate both memory channels).