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| Thread ID: 71461 | 2006-08-06 14:13:00 | Laptop ram query | Birkett11 (10924) | Press F1 |
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| 476609 | 2006-08-06 14:13:00 | I recently purchased an Acer laptop with 256 mgs of DDR2 400 ram and wanting to add some memory went to buy another 256 meg stick.However it seems rather hard to find DDR2 400mhz sodimm's so following the recomendations of a retail store added 256 mgs DDR2 533Mhz.All was well on boot up till the login stage where windows said my profile was corrupt and could not log me on.I find I can get into windows ok in safe mode and the laptop will run great on just the faster ram stick but the 2 together always give me this error. I would be interested to hear opinions advice etc on this experience and hopefully some sort of fix. |
Birkett11 (10924) | ||
| 476610 | 2006-08-06 20:01:00 | try your local pc shops , dick smith, global pc etc Price spy is a good place also www.pricespy.co.nz I recently brought far older so sd133 ram for a laptop from one of the above metioned |
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| 476611 | 2006-08-06 21:05:00 | My understanding was that the faster stick would "slow down" to match the slower one, and that would be fine. I have mixed-speed RAM in my laptop and it works fine. | somebody (208) | ||
| 476612 | 2006-08-06 22:21:00 | try your local pc shops , dick smith, global pc etc Price spy is a good place also www.pricespy.co.nz I recently brought far older so sd133 ram for a laptop from one of the above metioned Hi Beama the new ram I bought was from Dick Smiths I guess my issue is being able to start up normally with both sticks in -maybe I have to do a repair install of WinXP to get things back to normal.This is the message I get when attempting to logon:-"Windows cannot load the locally stored profile. Possible causes of this error include insufficient security rights or a corrupt local profile. if this problem persists, contact network administrator" This doesn't happen with either stick on their own -just the 2 combined. |
Birkett11 (10924) | ||
| 476613 | 2006-08-06 23:01:00 | It sounds as though they don't like each other much. You could try a repair install and see if that helps (be sure to back up your data first!) and if it doesn't then I would suggest taking the new stick back to DSE and swapping it for a stick of 512MB to run by itself or buy two identical 256MB sticks. You could then either use the old stick/s elsewhere or sell it/them. | FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 476614 | 2006-08-08 08:26:00 | Hi Foxy thanks 4 the advice -it looks as though a repair install may be worth trying,I thought it interesting that the laptop is able to function ok in safe mode with both sticks in so maybe its a driver that is causing the conflict | Birkett11 (10924) | ||
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