We recently built a computer and it works great. We then decided about 20 hours later that it was time for a ram upgrade as the already 2GB just wasn't quite enough. So we purchased the ram and put it in. We turned on the computer expecting it to fly and that is 100% what it did not do....
So we opened up the case again thinking we'd just not put the ram in properly. We checked it all and it seemed to be in fine. So turned it on again, still nothing.... so out come two sticks of ram and we try turning it on again......still nothing. So by now in the back of our minds we're thinking have we been careless somewhere and fried something? It was one of those tense moments where everyone's thinking it but if you say it, you know you're going to get the smack down laid on you.
So finally we fold and take it to the local computer guy. He plugs it in and turns it on, still nothing. So he starts pulling out sticks of ram and each time, nothing. We got to the end and just pulled out all the ram and turned it on (knowing it wouldn't work), and then put it in stick by stick thinking that one might be faulty. So we put the first one in and it works, put the second and it works - we got all the sticks of ram in and it worked with all four. So we're both looking confused, yet happy that it's working.
We got it back to the office and then clicked... the computer hadn't actually been shut down properly before and had just gone into a standby mode. It had turned off all the lights and hard drives etc. and the ram had held the memory of the last state of the computer, so when we put in the ram and turned it on, it found this new stuff and freaked out because it didn't match the previous image. It didn't work again until we had taken all the ram out which acted as a "reset" to the computer and so when we put the ram back in, it worked fine because it got a fresh image of what was in there.
Moral of the story, make sure the computer is actually shut down before adding new stuff and not just in standby, I hope this helps someone!
So we opened up the case again thinking we'd just not put the ram in properly. We checked it all and it seemed to be in fine. So turned it on again, still nothing.... so out come two sticks of ram and we try turning it on again......still nothing. So by now in the back of our minds we're thinking have we been careless somewhere and fried something? It was one of those tense moments where everyone's thinking it but if you say it, you know you're going to get the smack down laid on you.
So finally we fold and take it to the local computer guy. He plugs it in and turns it on, still nothing. So he starts pulling out sticks of ram and each time, nothing. We got to the end and just pulled out all the ram and turned it on (knowing it wouldn't work), and then put it in stick by stick thinking that one might be faulty. So we put the first one in and it works, put the second and it works - we got all the sticks of ram in and it worked with all four. So we're both looking confused, yet happy that it's working.
We got it back to the office and then clicked... the computer hadn't actually been shut down properly before and had just gone into a standby mode. It had turned off all the lights and hard drives etc. and the ram had held the memory of the last state of the computer, so when we put in the ram and turned it on, it found this new stuff and freaked out because it didn't match the previous image. It didn't work again until we had taken all the ram out which acted as a "reset" to the computer and so when we put the ram back in, it worked fine because it got a fresh image of what was in there.
Moral of the story, make sure the computer is actually shut down before adding new stuff and not just in standby, I hope this helps someone!
