I just put some mixed ram in a computer and it's not having any problems. Ymmv but it should be safe.<br><br>Rob Wilcox <e320r837i4031j316@yahoo.com> wrote:<br><br><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:lucida console, sans-serif;font-size:18pt"><div><font size="3">What happens when you install a 400 MHZ 1GB 240 PIN memory card <br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: lucida console,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font size="3">into a slot for a 533 MHz of the same?<br>Will it try to speed up the 400 to 533? <br>Overheat the memory card? <br>Or nothing at all and it's no problem?<br><br>I have 2x 1GB 400 MHZ 240 pins memory cards from <br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: lucida console,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font size="3">an old computer and want to put them both into a computer<br>with a 533 MHz requirement for that computer. <br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: lucida
console,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font size="3">It's presently running 512 MB RAM which is too slow and since<br>I already have 2 GB of memory why not put it in <br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: lucida console,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font size="3">and see what happens. That's why I'm asking 1st.<br><br><br>Also would a new 750 GB Hard Drive mess up <br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: lucida console,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font size="3">a computer that originally had XP and that BIOS?<br>After I used this external HD I got a screen freeze 3 times <br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: lucida console,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font size="3">and the next boot up didn't
bootup. Nothing!!!<br>The HD is formatted for Win 7 and it's NTFS.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: lucida console,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: lucida console,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font size="3">This EXT HD does work on my old iBook so now I think it might be computer related.<br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: lucida console,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: lucida console,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font size="3">So can a HD mess up a computer so it won't even bootup???</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: lucida
console,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: lucida console,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font size="3">I'll talk to some of you next Thursday 7-11 at Burger Continental.<br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: lucida console,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: lucida console,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Thanks,<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: lucida console,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Rob Wilcox<br></div></div>