New Ram for Desktop

the whole year inn

Upgrading ram on my desktop but havent shoped for any in years.
Looking to get this http://www.crucial.com/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=5CAD18C9A5CA7304

What the best website to buy from if i am in ireland.

Thanks

Im also looking to pay by paypal.

Moon54

Memoryc.com is great, Irish and does free shipping.
They accept paypal too.
Check out their PC2 6400 page;
http://www.memoryc.com/computermemory/ddr2ram.html?Standard=PC2+6400

the whole year inn

thanks would this ram suit do you think?

Moon54

Yeah, should be no problem.
The upgrade possibilities may depend on what you have at the moment.
What RAM do you have atm? Also do you have 2 or 4 slots on the motherboard?

the whole year inn

theres 512 in it now,i scaned it and it pulled all the info on the computer,theres 4 slots,Im thinking 2 1gig will do it fine.

the whole year inn

Just went through the website and entered the make and model number and it says "Memory:DDR2 PC2-6400, DDR2 PC2-8500, DDR2 PC2-5300

Memory Type: DDR2 PC2-6400, DDR2 PC2-8500, DDR2 PC2-5300, DDR2 (non-ECC)
Maximum Memory: 2GB
Slots: 2
Each memory slot can hold DDR2 PC2-6400, DDR2 PC2-8500, DDR2 PC2-5300 with a maximum of 1GB per slot.* "

Serephucus

Just in case, what are the other specs of your desktop, and what do you do with it? It might be the case the 4GB would benefit you. Since you're uprading anyway, couldn't hurt to look into it.

the whole year inn

Its just for browsing and listening to itenes,nothing to major.Right now the computer is slow starting and getting programs running but as soon as there loaded seems fine.

Serephucus

That's either a hard drive or a processor thing. More RAM never hurts though.

the whole year inn

Is there any way to check to see which one it is?

Serephucus

Well, if you download Speccy and list your specs, I can probably tell you straight off.

the whole year inn

cheers doing it now.

the whole year inn

got it download,what info you looking for?

Serephucus

Specs from your hard drive and processor tabs, as well as the general one, if you please.

the whole year inn

Everytime I run it I get blue screen.

the whole year inn

Ran the belrac adviser and it returned this results

Operating System System Model
Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 3 (build 2600)
Install Language: English (United States)

System Locale: English (Ireland) ACER Aspire T650
System Serial Number: 924Y970U8854306744EK02
Asset Tag: Asset tag number:at least 22 digits
Enclosure Type: Desktop

Processor a Main Circuit Board b
2.93 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
16 kilobyte primary memory cache
1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache
64-bit ready
Not hyper-threaded

Board: ACER ERC410Mÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ
Bus Clock: 532 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. R01-E4 09/21/2005
Drives Memory Modules c,d
76.86 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
43.56 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

HL-DT-ST DVDRRW GWA-4164B [Optical drive]

Generic USB CF Reader USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 2
Generic USB MS Reader USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 4
Generic USB SD Reader USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 1
Generic USB SM Reader USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 3
HDS728080PLA380 [Hard drive] (82.35 GB) -- drive 0, s/n PFDB20S5SNB89K, rev PF2OA60A, Not SMART 384 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

Slot 'DIMM0' is Empty
Slot 'DIMM1' is Empty
Slot 'DIMM2' has 512 MB
Slot 'DIMM3' is Empty
Local Drive Volumes


c: (NTFS on drive 0) 38.23 GB 12.70 GB free
d: (FAT32 on drive 0) 38.63 GB 30.86 GB free
Network Drives
None discovered

Serephucus

Your computer is... very old. If you want it to be faster, you'd have to buy a new one I'm afraid.

In the meantime, 2GB of RAM will be fine.

the whole year inn

Yea I know that,2 gigis of ram will make a noticeable boost to the computer?

by the way thanks for all your help.

Serephucus

It should, yeah. I remember working with a P4 machine last Summer. Upgraded it from 256MB to 768 and saw quite a jump. It's only going to do so much though, don't expect miricles.

the whole year inn

So I went for this ram got 2 of them.
http://www.memoryc.com/computermemory/ddr2/1gbtranscendjetramddr2800pc26400cl6module.html

Tried the install today but not working,I get a black screen,then I try and put the orginal back in and still wont work so had to remove the cmos battery and then the orginal worked but the new ram doesnt.Any ideas how to get this working?

the whole year inn

Got one of them to work,its an issue witht he mobo so going to sell the other if anyone is intrested?