2 Gigs Ram Upgrade Crashes PC

Boot it with the one stick and go to system properties, advanced, startup and recovery. Uncheck automatic reboot. Then install all your memory and try again.

I am finding it odd how there's a mem error on 2 sticks and none of them have problems individually. But now I am having more problems than I wanted. tried going back to the initial setup and now the motherboard is having problems just recognizing the hard drives. If I run them by themselves, they seem to do ok, but when they are together, one drive is not recognized and the other shows up as radom characters. Oh man... This might take awhile. Thinking I will start everything over from scratch....

Ok, I see the problem. In your second post you said that the memory was 400 MHz and in my second post, the 'notes' say that the highest the mother board can handle is 333. It's the wrong memory.

The website said if my CPU was 800 mhz FSB that I could support 400 Mhz RAM, double check.

So here's everything. My motherboard no longer recognizes two of my 3 harddrives. I've torn everything out, and tried to get it to recognize just one of them at a time, and nothing. VoiceGenie either complains or nothing gets recognized at all and it continues on. NOTE that I did switch back to my old ram which runs at 333 mhz. The ony hard drive that is still recognized is my oldy 30 GB drive. My brand new 500 GB gets a complaint from VoiceGenie all every time now. So everything started off ok, and now a whole bunch of new problems just hit the ceiling fan.

I'm going to test both the hard drives on a old computer I bought for ten bucks, its still a pentium 4 and runs good. All the Hard Drives are IDE 100. If the old computer fails I will take them to a friend. The one hard drive was my storage so I probably just lost a whole ton of crap.

Oh, and note the one hard drive that still gets recognized actually is running horribly. Windows takes a decade to load and you can hear the drive having problems. The other drives you can hear their problems too. So something *peach* something up.

I guess I am completely clueless and the more I attempt to figure out the problem the more things go wrong... All of this over me wanting to upgrade my RAM... what the *peach*?! Can't believe I'm about to lose a PC over a RAM upgrade.

We have conflicting information. The site I read said that the max is 333 MHz and you read that it's 400. It appears that the site I read was correct, since you have a ton of problems that didn't exist before.

I think that it was the wrong memory and it may have caused the new problems. I suggest that you use memory no more than the 333 MHz and reset the BIOS to defaults before you boot to the OS.

you didn't list note 3 completely:

Memory
4 * DDR Sockets:
DDR400/333/DDR266 unbuffered /None-ECC DDR SDRAM up to 4GB
Note 1: If the FSB of your CPU is 400 MHz, the memory speed supports only DDR 266.
Note 2: If the FSB of your CPU is 533 MHz, the memory speed supports DDR 266/333
Note 3: If the FSB of your CPU is 800 MHz, the memory speed supports DDR 266/333/400

Hmm, it was cut off on the web site. Call the manufacturer of the mother board. That's all I can think of now.

ok, so I had this ache that it was the power supply, and when my hard drives worked at my friends I figured it had to be that or my motherboard.

They just so happened to have a spare power supply that was a little bigger than mine, and viola the hard drives are being recognized now. So things are looking up for the moment, but I am re-testing the memory to double check if thats bad.

Thanks too all that helped, I just hope this is the end of my problems and things start flowing a bit more smoothly

I didn't know memory had such a requirement.

What I'm thinking happened wasn't the memory's fault. Well, it was bad, of course, but when fiddling around trying to get things to work, I ended up breaking something else. Hoping the next try won't be so bad.

Same here, good luck.