New RAM memories make comp crash

[AJ Rimmer]

As the title so amptly suggests, I purchased two sticks of 512 mb ram to add to my two old sticks.
They worked when I put them in but every half hour or so my computer would just freeze and loop whatever sound if any was playing and force me to reboot. I'm guessing either they overheat (but I doubt it) or my power supply is too small.
My specs are:

AMD 64 XP3500+ 2.2ghz, 2x SATA HDDs, 1x IDE, Radeon x800 XL 256mb, 2x512 mb RAM, 350W power supply.

Anyone? I *really* don't want to buy a new power supply so if it isn't that I'd be reaaaal happy

 

[Shasta]

Err - you really should have done more research before you bought your RAM. If you had, you would have learned that there are many different types of RAM, and they all come in 256MB, 512MB, 1024MB etc etc sticks. The differences are things like (for example) DDR, DDR2, 400, 533, 667, PC3200, etc etc etc. Different types, different speeds. So a 512MB stick of RAM can be VERY different to a 512MB stick of RAM. Clearly you weren't aware of this, or you would have listed what type/speed your RAM sticks are, as these specs are pretty important anyway, but especially importart when trying to solve a RAM issue.

I suspect you have incompatible / conflicting RAM types or speeds, or both.

 

[Core407]

Take out all the ram and test it with just the new RAM.

 

[Asus]

Also check out memtest. And you will want to isolate the old and new memory to see what is causing the issue. They could just be corrupt so you'd have to send them back and get new sticks.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

Err - you really should have done more research before you bought your RAM. If you had, you would have learned that there are many different types of RAM, and they all come in 256MB, 512MB, 1024MB etc etc sticks. The differences are things like (for example) DDR, DDR2, 400, 533, 667, PC3200, etc etc etc. Different types, different speeds. So a 512MB stick of RAM can be VERY different to a 512MB stick of RAM. Clearly you weren't aware of this, or you would have listed what type/speed your RAM sticks are, as these specs are pretty important anyway, but especially importart when trying to solve a RAM issue.

I suspect you have incompatible / conflicting RAM types or speeds, or both.

Yes, thankyou for the standardized moron check, it's always good to do one but it doesn't apply here They're the same type, same speed and same brand. I am not an idiot. But you're right that I should have said so in my post

I'll test it with just the new ones and see what happens.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

Well that solved that, in a way I guess. Just using the new ram memories makes the comp freeze in five minutes.