About two weeks ago I bought a 1 gig stick of Kingston Value RAM (PC27000) for my HP ZD7000 lappy. I installed it and it worked fine. I was actually very satisfied with the performace of the cheap memory. However the other day I turned on my computer, it reached the Windows screen and then restarted itself. I believe some kind of stop error popped up but I'm not sure. I saw Windows and then BAM my computer was already rebooting. Anyways, it did the same thing when it finished restarting. So I turned off my computer and decided to try to remove the memory I installed. Presto, my computer starts up just fine. I put the Kingston memory back in and the same thing happened.
Now today (all this happened a two days ago) I decided to try to see what happenes if I took out the 512 stick that came with my lappy and only put in the Kingston gig. I put it in and turned on my computer. Nothing happened. The screen stayed black, after about 5-10 sec it made two beeps and just stayed there. I have no clue what this means. So I removed the Kingston memory once again and put the 512 back in. Works fine.
I was careful when I worked with my memory. I always wore an electrostatic wriststrap when handling it and never touched anything other than the sides. I just don't know what this could be. My computer takes this kind of memory and can hold up to 2 gigs max (this would be 1.5 gig if the memory I bought was working). Any ideas?
I bought the memory from Best Buy but I'm not sure how stores are about returning installed memory. Anyone have any experiance with returning memory to stores? I just don't want to go up to return it and have the people as Best Buy telling me I messed up the memory and they aren't going to take it back.
Er...HELP! <3
Now today (all this happened a two days ago) I decided to try to see what happenes if I took out the 512 stick that came with my lappy and only put in the Kingston gig. I put it in and turned on my computer. Nothing happened. The screen stayed black, after about 5-10 sec it made two beeps and just stayed there. I have no clue what this means. So I removed the Kingston memory once again and put the 512 back in. Works fine.
I was careful when I worked with my memory. I always wore an electrostatic wriststrap when handling it and never touched anything other than the sides. I just don't know what this could be. My computer takes this kind of memory and can hold up to 2 gigs max (this would be 1.5 gig if the memory I bought was working). Any ideas?
I bought the memory from Best Buy but I'm not sure how stores are about returning installed memory. Anyone have any experiance with returning memory to stores? I just don't want to go up to return it and have the people as Best Buy telling me I messed up the memory and they aren't going to take it back.
Er...HELP! <3