As previous posters have mentioned, I have an eMachine Win XP system with 512 MB RAM and I'm pretty sure that's having a big effect on performance. The system has two memory slots.
So I went online using eMachine help to locate compatible RAM and found a place on Amazon that seemed to have a perfect match. They offered "packages" of mixed capacity memory DIMMs (including one that consisted of a 1 GB DIMM and a 512 MB DIMM) so I concluded that mixing them wouldn't be a problem. Apparently it ain't so.
I put the new DIMM into the second slot and the system doesn't recognize it. I don't recall how the system realizes there's new memory on board. I couldn't find anything in BIOS setup that looked helpful.
I find forum posters who have had a similar problem. One solution was to put the larger DIMM in the slot that contained the smaller DIMM. Is there a possibility that might work for me?
Thanks Very Much,
WW
So I went online using eMachine help to locate compatible RAM and found a place on Amazon that seemed to have a perfect match. They offered "packages" of mixed capacity memory DIMMs (including one that consisted of a 1 GB DIMM and a 512 MB DIMM) so I concluded that mixing them wouldn't be a problem. Apparently it ain't so.
I put the new DIMM into the second slot and the system doesn't recognize it. I don't recall how the system realizes there's new memory on board. I couldn't find anything in BIOS setup that looked helpful.
I find forum posters who have had a similar problem. One solution was to put the larger DIMM in the slot that contained the smaller DIMM. Is there a possibility that might work for me?
Thanks Very Much,
WW