my friend bought a new computer today and he installed the sims. well it worked fine untill i installed a stick of 512mb pc 2700 ram. well now when he tryed to play sims the game boots up and then quits while booting up. anyone know why?

that stick of 512 bad? will it load without the stick you put in?

the computer runs fine but how would the ram make th egame not load up?

A bad stick of ram can cause some pretty strange things. It may cause some applications not to work or it could cause the whole thing to crash, depends on the ram. If it runs fine without the ram than its the ram. Also a buddy of mine found that some brands of ram dont work well will certain motherboards. I also had a PC in fact it was my old (2002) AMD I built that when I put a stick of kingston 2700 with the OEM samsung 2700 it would cause frequent restarts, but the rams worked great when by themselfs, never could figure it out, all the specs were the same.

ok im not at his house so i cant do much ill have to go tomarrow or tonight. im not sure, i feel bad cuz their computer is messing up and i feel like its my fault. this sucks.

Dont feel bad, you had no way of knowing. Computers are psycho machines, you just learn and move on. Check that ram though, if they have a smaller ram in it take it out and try it with only the 512 you had, see what happens. If it still does it then I would say bad ram rather than compatability issues. Make sure to hold onto metal, dont want Mr. Static causing problems.


Mos, TrueWildMan, any other computer person, any ideas here?

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