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Decided to upgrade my computer a few days ago and bought a gigabyte stick of RAM from Newegg. I previously had two sticks of 512 RAM (1GB) that was PC 3200, 184 pin DDR RAM. That's EXACTLY the type that I bought. I researched and made sure before doing anything stupid.
Well, I got it yesterday, installed it fine, no problems. But twice in the last two days, the computer has caught itself, given me the dreaded "blue screen of death" for like .5 seconds and then auto-rebooted itself.
Nothing bad has hapenned as a result (each time I clutch my heart hoping my hard drive wasn't just purged). But I AM concerned about this. I don't know what could be wrong, because the RAM matches and has been improving my system performance by leaps and bounds.
The RAM I bought is called "Super Talent DDR Memory Module 1GB 184-Pin DIMM".
My current system is Windows XP Media Center.
I'm wondering if there's something I forgot to do in the system concerning the RAM on boot-up. I seem to remember my neighbor (more of a computer jack-of-all-trades than myself) making some sort of action that told the computer how to run with the RAM...tho I might be remembering the processor installation, not the RAM.
Anyway, anybody who can give me help or reassurance of any kind, thank you very much in advance! I'm most definitely going to invest in a 60 GB back-up external Hard Drive, so I don't have to update everything with DVD RWs. This crap is too stressful for me.
Well, I got it yesterday, installed it fine, no problems. But twice in the last two days, the computer has caught itself, given me the dreaded "blue screen of death" for like .5 seconds and then auto-rebooted itself.
Nothing bad has hapenned as a result (each time I clutch my heart hoping my hard drive wasn't just purged). But I AM concerned about this. I don't know what could be wrong, because the RAM matches and has been improving my system performance by leaps and bounds.
The RAM I bought is called "Super Talent DDR Memory Module 1GB 184-Pin DIMM".
My current system is Windows XP Media Center.
I'm wondering if there's something I forgot to do in the system concerning the RAM on boot-up. I seem to remember my neighbor (more of a computer jack-of-all-trades than myself) making some sort of action that told the computer how to run with the RAM...tho I might be remembering the processor installation, not the RAM.
Anyway, anybody who can give me help or reassurance of any kind, thank you very much in advance! I'm most definitely going to invest in a 60 GB back-up external Hard Drive, so I don't have to update everything with DVD RWs. This crap is too stressful for me.