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Yesterday for my birthday I went out to get some RAM to upgrade my PC. My PC is an HP Pavilion A1010n. It has a Celeron D Processor and it came with 512 MB’s of RAM in one chip. It has one extra RAM slot.
I went to crucial.com to check what I needed and we got that. Yesterday when I added the new 1 gig chip I got to the second RAM slot, and turned the computer on, it did nothing. It froze at the first screen I got.
Then I turned it off and on, and it went normally but before it got to the point where it would normally say “Windows XP starting up”, it had just a black screen that said couldn’t find system file or something and that I had to fix it from a CD. I got really nervous, turned the computer off, removed the new RAM chip I got, and started the comp up again and everything was normal.
Needless to say I was relieved but also afraid to try it again.
Anyone know what the problem could be? A friend suggested that perhaps my comp can’t take more than 1 gig, and that I should just remove the existing 512 MB ram chip and replace it with the new one I got.
I am afraid to do anything else before I get more expert advice.
HP Pavilion a1010n Desktop PC – Product Specifications
What did you buy? Probably not PC-2700 DDR RAM. Remove the 512MB module and replace it with the 1GB module and it should be fine. Otherwise return what you bought and buy PC-2700 DDR RAM. Something like this should work: Newegg.com – pqi POWER Series 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 333 (PC 2700) Desktop Memory – Retail
Its PC3200 DDR-400/333/266 and I can’t return it since I opened the box already…so I’m screwed and I wasted my money?
Well I solved the problem myself and with the help of other friends turns out because of my inexperience I didn’t put the RAM chip in far enough. I was paranoid and afraid to jam it in further out of fear of breaking it. I finally did it now and both chips are in and working and my RAM is tripled. Thanks for the help!
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