[SGVLUG] Memory and External HD Questions

[Claude Felizardo]

Are you trying to boot with the external drive?  Unless you have flakey
drivers I don't think the HD should be a problem as long as the BIOS and
windows can see it.  Now depending on how you install things, the drive
config might be on the internal drive and if you try to boot w/o that
drive, you might have a problem.

When you say it won't boot, at what point does it lock up?  When you first
turn on the computer and it doesn't finish the POST or while it's loading
windows or what?

Are you running with the slower speed memory now?  I would expect that to
cause problems.  I don't recall if the BIOS will recognize the slower speed
memory and adapt automatically.  Does the BIOS recognize this memory?  I
would run a memory diagnostic.  Usually the memtest that comes with some
Linux distros is suppose to be pretty good.

You could also try swapping memory modules into different problems and see
if that has an effect.  For example, you might be able to boot and as long
as your stay within the good module you'll be okay but run more stuff and
you start to access the additional memory and it may crash then.


On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 8:37 PM, Rob Wilcox <e320r837i4031j316 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> What happens when you install a 400 MHZ 1GB 240 PIN memory card
> into a slot for a 533 MHz of the same?
> Will it try to speed up the 400 to 533?
> Overheat the memory card?
> Or nothing at all and it's no problem?
>
> I have 2x 1GB 400 MHZ 240 pins memory cards from
> an old computer and want to put them both into a computer
> with a 533 MHz requirement for that computer.
> It's presently running 512 MB RAM which is too slow and since
> I already have 2 GB of memory why not put it in
> and see what happens. That's why I'm asking 1st.
>
>
> Also would a new 750 GB Hard Drive mess up
> a computer that originally had XP and that BIOS?
> After I used this external HD I got a screen freeze 3 times
> and the next boot up didn't bootup. Nothing!!!
> The HD is formatted for Win 7 and it's NTFS.
>
> This EXT HD does work on my old iBook so now I think it might be computer
> related.
>
> So can a HD mess up a computer so it won't even bootup???
>
> I'll talk to some of you next Thursday 7-11 at Burger Continental.
>
> Thanks,
> Rob Wilcox
>
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