dansleeth
01-08-2008, 12:01 AM
Hi all,
I am doing this on behalf of a friend, so my replies might be slow! She has a Mesh Matrix machine (not sure on the model number) which is 2GHz with 224MB RAM?? Running XP! It is 5 years old now and she says it is really sluggish, so obviously I recommended an upgrade on the RAM. After looking through the books that came with it, she told me that it takes '2700 333'. I linked her to the Novatech RAM [http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/products/a539x1y0z1p0s0n0m0] from which she bought a 1 gig module. I met up with her today to install it and when she got home to boot it up, she had a 'no signal' messsage on the monitor. Over the phone I went thru all the usual wire checking, making sure the gpu was seated etc but no joy. I then told her to take the new RAM out and just run it on the old RAM to see if it messed up when I installed it. It booted fine as usual. I then suggested she took the old RAM out completely and just use the gig module in case the machine was limited to a gig memory. It booted, but eveything on the screen looked psychadelic (purples, greens etc).
Basically whenever the new RAM is in the machine, it doesn't run properly (but will kinda boot but looks crazy when used on its own).
Do you think this is most likely because it is too large (should I suggest changing it for a 512MB) or is this a dodgy RAM stick and suggest she get a straight replacement? It would seem a shame to only upgrade by 512MB, but that will still be a lot considering that is XPs minimum requirement!! Any other suggestions welcome!
THANKS!
I am doing this on behalf of a friend, so my replies might be slow! She has a Mesh Matrix machine (not sure on the model number) which is 2GHz with 224MB RAM?? Running XP! It is 5 years old now and she says it is really sluggish, so obviously I recommended an upgrade on the RAM. After looking through the books that came with it, she told me that it takes '2700 333'. I linked her to the Novatech RAM [http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/products/a539x1y0z1p0s0n0m0] from which she bought a 1 gig module. I met up with her today to install it and when she got home to boot it up, she had a 'no signal' messsage on the monitor. Over the phone I went thru all the usual wire checking, making sure the gpu was seated etc but no joy. I then told her to take the new RAM out and just run it on the old RAM to see if it messed up when I installed it. It booted fine as usual. I then suggested she took the old RAM out completely and just use the gig module in case the machine was limited to a gig memory. It booted, but eveything on the screen looked psychadelic (purples, greens etc).
Basically whenever the new RAM is in the machine, it doesn't run properly (but will kinda boot but looks crazy when used on its own).
Do you think this is most likely because it is too large (should I suggest changing it for a 512MB) or is this a dodgy RAM stick and suggest she get a straight replacement? It would seem a shame to only upgrade by 512MB, but that will still be a lot considering that is XPs minimum requirement!! Any other suggestions welcome!
THANKS!