ram upgrade and cd rom issues

[catofnine]

Hi all,

I was trying to upgrade the ram on my creaky PIII 866 from 128mb to 256mb. I made sure that it was the correct speed i.e. p133, right voltage, cas 3, non ecc etc. I installed it; things looked fine until I tried running a game disc thru the cd rom (phillips cdrw 8x4x32.) The cd rom would read the disc,,run it for about 30 sec and then it would either cut to the blue screen of death or automatically reboot my system. ugh. Everything else on the system runs fine. And when I removed the new ram, my cd rom works again. I'm not sure what is going on...the only thing that is different between the original 128mb and the new is that the old had 8 chips on it whereas the new had only 4 chips--is this what's causing the problem?

Thanks for any help.

 

[kestrel1]

Is the new RAM of good origin. Cheepo RAM doesn't always work properly. Try Crucial or Kingston.

 

[jward52]

Do a Google search for DocMemory. It's a freebie that you download to a folder, run the .exe, which then creates a floppy disk for you. You then boot to the floppy (make the floppy your first boot device in setup) and run the software. It'll take 10 - 15 minutes or so to run through the extensive test or you can try the quick test first. Have only the suspect stick installed when running DocMemory. It's my only memory diagnostic tool.
Jim