Another RAM issue

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adramelke

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My computer is slowly killing me with it's slowness. Let's make it faster. Hey more RAM is a good way to give it a boost, but wait, i can't get the new RAM i bought to work.

My computer is an eMachines M3107 - 1.81GHz - 384 MB RAM.
(google it if you have questions about it. I haven't changed anything except sound card.)

Below is the address for the kind of RAM that I purchased.
(STT D400 1GB/64X8 CL3 16CH Memory(PC and Mac G5) - Your Store Online)

I'm trying to install a new stick of RAM. I took out the old RAM stick and replaced it with this one. When i reconnected everything to the computer and powered it up, all i got was a black screen and the internal speaker beeps off and on. This repeats until you hold the power button down and turn the computer off. After replacing the new ram with the old ram the computer starts up as normal and here i am posting my problems.

I've tried installing the new ram in each slot. I've tried the new ram in slot one and old ram in slot 2. I've tried old ram in slot 1 and new ram in slot 2. I've tried new ram in slots 1 and 2 alone. None of these work.

Someone throw me a bone here. I'm completely confused.
 
Wow that is a really weird off brand of RAM that I have never even heard of. That brand might not be supported by your mobo, or it might be a bad stick of RAM.
 
RAM issue

So only a specific brand will work for my computer? Even if the parts are almost identical my computer will only recognize a specific brand? I've given you the make/model of computer that I'm using. I've given the exact item that I'm trying to install. I waited almost 12 hours and this is the best response you can come up with? I mean, you might as well be saying,"I have no idea why it won't work."

If I take the RAM stick back I want to know why it doesn't work so I have a reason to bitch at them for giving me something that doesn't work(as opposed to something i can't get to work) after being given my computer model and then having to wait 3 days to get a replacement or, at the very least, the $60 i paid for it. There is a difference between; It doesn't work, and I can't get it to work.
 
I'm having a hard time even finding a mobo model on google, so I can't even find a RAM compatibility list for your computer.

Do you have another computer that you could test this RAM in to see if it's the RAM itself that is the prolbem?
 
ok, so here's what happened. I went back to the store and exchanged the ram for another stick(different brand). Brought the new stick home put it in. Computer started to boot, but fails. Brought up the emachines logo but it had a bunch of lines through it and froze like that. Tried the new stick by itself but it booted a post with just 1 beep(bad/incompatible ram)Basically the new stick they had given me was incompatible. So i took the computer to the store. Turns out the first stick they gave me would work, but the first one they gave me turned out to just be a bad stick. FML
 
hi, first off increase your page file, your machine will page file like mad with that amount of ram capacity, most likely the reason why it's running like ass.

and for your ram issues the first set of ram the ddr 400mh 3200mb/s ram should work no problems. but another reason why it won't work is because the maxium amount of memory your motherboard probably handles is 1gb but maybe only 512mb per dimm. and your putting one 1gb module in one dimm, it's hard to say tho because i cannot find any specs on that system of yours.
 
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