Wife's comp won't accept 2gb

mrbibs · Nov 4, 2014

My wife's emachine T3642 wouldn't accept another 1gb ram so it would have 2gb in it instead of 1.5 it just started beeping really loud so i unplugged it immediately. Can anyone tell me why it's doing this?

coolcole01 · Nov 4, 2014

so did you remove the old ram and install new or did you just add more ram

littleleo · Nov 4, 2014

Because it is a eMachine, do you know how much RAM the system will handel. How many RAM slots does the MB have? Are you sure you put the right type of RAM in it? Is it the same speed, does it have the same number of chips (8chip vs 16chip)?

mrbibs · Nov 4, 2014

It only had 512mb when we first got it years ago so i got the kingston 1g to add to it and it'd been running on 1g 512mb for years now and i recently tore down an old comp that had two 1g sticks in it same as the 1g kingston and i put one of the 1g sticks in it and it came on jst fine so i shut it down put the second 1g stick in it and it just started beeping when i turned it back on. I assumed since it has 2 ram slots it'd at least handle 2gb of ram. I don't know what MB it has in it. It has AMD Athlon 64 cpu 4000 2600mhz 1core if that helps any. Didn't know if i needed to try and update the bios in it or what i just read that was not an easy thing to do and could possibly hurt the comp and cause it to not operate at all.

mrbibs · Nov 4, 2014

All my knowledge on computers could fit on the point of a stick pin but i'm trying to learn and understand it best i can.

coolcole01 · Nov 4, 2014

take the old 1gb stick and add it to the first new 1gb stick that actually worked

mrbibs · Nov 4, 2014

I did that, i tried every combination i could think of and the only way it would run was with the 1gb 512mb.

coolcole01 · Nov 5, 2014

are any of these rams different or do they all say the same type and speed

mrbibs · Nov 5, 2014

They're the same as far as i can tell.

mrbibs · Nov 5, 2014

Think i'm just going to do what someone suggested on another post i have and just buy new components and box to put them in as i can afford them. Thanks for the info.

littleleo · Nov 6, 2014

Good idea you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. If you list your budget and what you are going to be using the computer for you'll get lots of options on builds.

USAFRet · Nov 6, 2014

From cnet, that can (theoretically) take 2, 1GB sticks.
http://www.cnet.com/products/emachines-t3642/specs/

Do those 1GB sticks work? Apparently not.
But as said...there is only so much you can do with that. It was small and slow when it was new. Almost 7 years later, it hasn't gotten better.

Time to do a whole new one.

Don't toss that emachine though. There are multiple secondary purposes you could use it for.

littleleo · Nov 6, 2014

I'd just donate the computer and buy a new one. Unless you want to waste your time dealing with this eMachine and its issues. You can keep the monitor and use it on your new computer just be sure it has the right outputs for it.

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