I've just bought 2x 1GB RAM chips from Crucial, using their memory upgrade advisor program. I installed them, with the two 1GB chips in the purple bays (Pair 1) and the original chips (2x 512mb) in the red slots.

When I try to boot up, their is nothing on the screen and the computer just bleeps (Long bleeps). I used the crucial online chat thing, and spoke to a crucial worker. She told me to try the chips on their own, which worked fine, and to test the red slots. I did all of this and everything seemed to be okay. They also suggested a BIOS upgrade, but I'm kind of cautious when it comes to these.

According to Crucial, the RAM should work together (I bought it as a kit to upgrade the computer to 3GB by buying 2x 1GB chips from them and using my 2 current 512mb chips), is it possible that the RAM chips are not compatible with each other?
Also, where would I get the BIOS updates from if I had to update it? Cos Acer site is pretty useless :L

Its kinda annoying cos on all the comps ive ever upped the ram in, ive never been this stumped before...


Thanks!!!

--Paul

Heres a link to Bios upgrades where they do the scan and tel you if its up to date. Then they'll tell ya about what drivers are missing and try to sell ya some for 29.95 I think. I used their site to check my bios on desktop but its up to date. Heres the link :http://scan.esupport.com/?CFID=2051592&CFTOKEN=74113183 . When I bought 3 HYNIX 512 MB of Ram to install on this desktop 2 of them would work but the 3rd would kill it. Ended up using my old 128mb with 2- 512mb, to get everything to work right.

Thanks! I went on there, and they told me i didn't need a BIOS update... still, they told me I had 4 out of date drivers

--PAUL

Yeah and if you told him thats OK he gets off the phone real quick.

Originally Posted by rokytnji

Yeah and if you told him thats OK he gets off the phone real quick.

HAHA! hasnt the n ew dal go some gd smileys