Toshiba A215 S7422 DDR2 Ram upgrading

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Hello,

I recently got 2x 1gb Centon Memory Power DDR2 667MHz 1GB667LT Ram to upgrade a Toshiba Satellite A215-S7422 for my mother. The laptop came with Windows Vista and was running 2x 512mb for a total of 1gb. When I first installed the ram, the computer booted and ran significantly faster than before, but that evening I got a BSOD and now it says "The file is possibly corrupt. The file header checksum does not match the computed checksum." I re-installed the original ram and it works fine, but for some reason it won't run with the new ram. I can access the Bios and it shows that 2gb of memory is installed. I also flashed the Bios to the latest revision which did no help.

Although I just now noticed that the specs for the laptop say it requires PC2-5300 vs. the PC2-5400 for the ram. Is this a problem?
 
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well pc2-5400 should be the same as pc2-5300, they just mark it as 5400 because it makes it sound faster. the speed should be around 667MHz. and if your bios sees all the ram then it should be fine, but it sounds like you have some bad ram though.

get yourself a copy of memtest, run the new ram and see if you get any errors. then memtest 1 ram stick at a time to find the faulty one. memtest will either find errors, or will crash if you have faulty ram.

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well pc2-5400 should be the same as pc2-5300, they just mark it as 5400 because it makes it sound faster. the speed should be around 667MHz. and if your bios sees all the ram then it should be fine, but it sounds like you have some bad ram though.

get yourself a copy of memtest, run the new ram and see if you get any errors. then memtest 1 ram stick at a time to find the faulty one. memtest will either find errors, or will crash if you have faulty ram.
 
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