Glutton for punishment, eh? Are they offering a compatibility guarantee?

 

Go with Crucial...

 

Exactly.

 

it is crucial. newegg had it cheaper than crucial did on their site. same part number

 

Crucial brand is very good memory usually. That's all I used in the Macs for years.

My little squirt laptop has a paired 4 gig set up. That's two 2 gig Kensington sticks. That set has almost identical serial numbers and if I'm not mistaken, paired memory comes in one package. It fly's...

Not sure that will help, you never know lol.

Well this might. See what you manufacturer suggests if you can. Or you mobo manufacturer. Maybe there's some particular problem with that mb to do with compatible memory.

 

When I updated my old PCs to higher RAM, I went with Kingston and had a trouble-free experience. Either the motherboard went out, or the PC got hit by lightning, but the Kingston's never failed

 

You sure it's the same part number? You don't get a compatibility guarantee from Newegg. You have to buy direct from Crucial to get that.

 

I'm willing to risk $10. Crucial isn't the only website in the world that sells RAM.

 

Yea, I've never bought GOOD ram that cheap. Go for it.

 

True, but how many others give a compatibility guarantee?

 

Well if this doesnt work, I'll just RMA it too

 

Huh? Oh I get it. - That's what you have with a pile of wrong memory lying around. - Random Memory Access.

 

MGD

 

By the time you get done with all the RMA's, you will wind up paying more for shipping than you did for the ram itself.

 

Download CPU-Z and run it to get your M/B model and memory info....

link to CPU-Z download

http://www.cpuid.com/downloads/cpu-z...1-setup-en.exe

Link to instructions

http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html


ETA....Your motherboard is probably dual channel for memory. Are there 2 pairs of slots, each pair it's own color? For each pair you need matching memory