freealba

Hi, My spare comp' is an emachines 190 desktop tower, I use it for my home studio set up. Anyway, I thought I'd up the ram, so I got a 1gb stick. It's the correct spec' for the motherboard ( pc2100 non-ecc unbuffered 266mhz ). It currently only has a 256 stick in. So, I removed the old and replaced with new and the damn computer just won't work! I can kind of get it working in safe mode but it runs extremely slowly if at all and doesn't work in normal mode, the windows start-up screen flashes up and then nothing.

I would welcome any suggestions. I have a feeling the stick of ram is duff. Nevertheless, this is driving me mad, I have placed and replaced and given it time to boot. I am aware that the bios settings, in terms of the voltage can effect the ram but I wouldn't have thought I would have needed to bother with this as it is like for like barr the momory size of the stick( meaning it is a single stick for a single stick both at 266mhz ). Please let me know if I'm way off the mark with this theory . I have been up all night!!

Well, thanks for any help!!