Another RAM question...sorry....

[beavereater]

As some of you may have read in a previous post, I succefully installed a 512 RAM "DIMM" the other night...drunk...!!

Thanks for the tip from studtrooper:

Unless your motherboard can run in dual channel (thus necessitating special ram placement to get it to work) the place where you stick your ram in doesn't matter. Since you will be inebriated when you do this though, try very carefully not to stick the DDR stick in backwards (you'll hear a nice big crunch, that'll be your stick being broke and probably the slot you tried to incorrectly ram it into)

Anyway, my question this time around is...if I put it in wrong, would I notice. After putting it in, everything worked fine. I THINK I saw 700 and something...I was still drunk. I will check when I get home. Just wondering if a wrong ENTRY would kill my PC[/quote][/url]

[fmctm1sw]

As some of you may have read in a previous post, I succefully installed a 512 RAM "DIMM" the other night...drunk...!!

Thanks for the tip from studtrooper:

Unless your motherboard can run in dual channel (thus necessitating special ram placement to get it to work) the place where you stick your ram in doesn't matter. Since you will be inebriated when you do this though, try very carefully not to stick the DDR stick in backwards (you'll hear a nice big crunch, that'll be your stick being broke and probably the slot you tried to incorrectly ram it into)

Anyway, my question this time around is...if I put it in wrong, would I notice. After putting it in, everything worked fine. I THINK I saw 700 and something...I was still drunk. I will check when I get home. Just wondering if a wrong ENTRY would kill my PC

[/url][/quote]

It won't go in backwards. Trust me, I've tried... They're keyed. I've put old SIMMs in backwards with no ill effects (damage).

[beavereater]

I posted my question a bit hastely...had to leave to teach. Anyway, I was just wondering if there is someway to test memory to see if its doing the best it can do. Or if there is even such an app out there. I'm preparing my machine for DOOM 3. 768RAM will hopefully do it...and hope it also stops the constant accessing of my harddrive.

[DVD_Ripper]

See if you can find a shareware version of "Hot CPU Tester" .... it does a great job testing the shit out of your memory....

[studtrooper]

lol. Glad I could be of some use. Lord knows if I tried the same thing incapacitated, I'd turn out like an attempted suicide (my PC case unfortunately has MANY hidden sharp edges, and since I'd be drunk I wouldn't know I was spilling blood all over my expensive components)

[rallynavvie]

MemTest is good for checking your memory for errors. It's a bootable program though.