OCZ and Dimension 8400 don’t play nice
When I got my very cool Dell Dimension 8400 computer I made the mistake of only getting 512MB of ram in the thing. Unfortunetaly, when running Netbeans 4.1 and Sun Java System Application Server PE 8.1 (they have got to get a shorter name) I end up using about 650MB of ram.
My solution to this problem was to try and upgrade my ram. I went to my local computer store and purchased some nice OCZ Value ram to up the computer to 1.5GB—I got the 2×512 kit in to benefit from the dual channel thingy. I brought the ram home and put it into the computer. Nothing. I tried putting the ram in again. Nothing. Everything I tried ended in the same thing—Nothing. So it is back to the computer store tomorrow for some new ram. Actually it may be back to another computer store because I am becoming less and less impressed with the store that I usually deal with, but I am not sure yet.
Anyway, have I ever said I hate computers?
Updated: I took the ram back to the computer and replaced it with some Geil ram and everything works great now. I have never heard of them before now, but apparently they make really good ram. Hey it works in a Dimension 8400, good enough for me.