Tried to upgrade RAM, what happened?
Okay, first off don't laugh, it's all I got. I am running an Emachines T2885, circa 2004. Windows XP (2.8 ghz Celeron) I was running 512 MB of DDR PC2700,333mhz and it ran just fine.Went to the computer dude the other day and he sold me a stick of PC3400 DDR512 400mhz. He said it was backward compatible. It ran great, the only thing it does is reduce the MHZ to 333 on the faster (pC3400) stick, but now I had 1gig of RAM. This was great but I wanted faster! So I bought two sticks of PC2700 DDR 1GHZ to double my RAM. When I put it into the slot, either one at a time or both, my start screen says that my memory was reduced to 31mb, which I believe is the onboard memory. I had my MOBO replaced a year ago so I called to confirm with the geek squad that they did not downgrade my MOBO (the original MOBO will take 1 gig per slot, two slots)So I am left to beleive that it is either bad memory, mislabeled memory, or my MOBO won't take 1 gig per slot. Any ideas Captains?