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Re: My slow eMachines computer...

By: micro in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (0)
Sat, 07 Aug 21 1:05 AM | 18 view(s)
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Itcould simply be a compatibility issue with the memory. Some brands or types of memory do not work with some systems which is normally why you would want to play it safe and use the memory that Crucial says works on that particular motherboard..
Yes, you will pay more for it but it will work. I tried looking up the same specified memory.
Some brands are more compatible than others as well. Kingston and crucial are two of the better more compatible.

On Cruciaal's memory finder you type in the computer name and model aand it will tell you which of their memory will work with that.

Yep, its sometimes a PITA working on one of these older computers but I think the problem is the memory you got is not compatible with the motherboard..

That's my opinion.
ZIM, what you think?


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Re: My slow eMachines computer...
By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE
Fri, 06 Aug 21 8:10 PM 		Msg. 21453 of 60008

micro:

Re: “Upon booting, the computer is throwing errors - one beep followed by three more in quick succession.”It's an American Megatrends BIOS. I looked up the beep codes and one long followed by three short means MEMORY ERROR:

1 Long Beep + 3 Short Beeps

If you hear one long beep followed by three short ones, this is due to a failure above the 64 KB mark in the computer's system memory.

There's little practicality in this test versus some of the earlier tests because the solution is the same—replace the RAM.
It is continuing to occur now that I've pulled the wireless network card back out. I don't know why I didn't notice the memory error earlier.

I'll try using ONE of the memory cards instead of both and see if I can pin it down to one card or the other. If I can't, I may have to return both cards and use the old 3GB memory.

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