Adding Memory....On of scale of 1 to 10.....how difficult should this be?
Tgdrysix:
Cause it ranks right there at a 10 for me!!! >:( On the recomendation of my brother, who just built a new computer for himself, suggested that some of the issues I may have running this game could be to not having enough memory, I have 1 gb, (which the guy who built my computer said would be enough), being at my wits end and ready to chuck this computer and the sims2 out the window, I figured I'd add some memory.....so I ordered the exact same memory sticks that I ordered when I had the computer built about 2 months ago....cause I didn't want to just get any ole memory......so I tentively open up the computer....locate the slots and added the memory sticks making sure they "clicked" in place as per directions....fired up my computer and it came on but the monitor didn't.....so I'm thinking maybe I accidentally cause something to come loose.....checked everything and it all seemed to be in it's right places.....so I call my brother who started this mess figuring he could help me "clean it up"....at his recommendation I first tried moving over the old sticks replacing the new ones in their slot.....same thing.....computer comes on but not the monitor.....next we tried taking the new stick out leaving the old sticks in their new position....computer came on , monitor came on......great.......then we put in just one of the new sticks in and turned on the computer....it came on the monitor came on.....great.....replaced the first new stick with the second new stick.....computer came on, monitor came on....great......(conclusion, new sticks were good).....put the remaining new stick in and computer came on monitor didn't.....WTF is going on???? This even stumped my brother.....so he went seaching for solutions but really couldn't find anything cause it should work.....he said something about BIOS stuff and I pretty much bailed at that point.....so once more I seek the wisdom of the more awesome than me folks here who could give me so insight to what the hell am I doing wrong.....and what should I be doing right.....hat in hand I slink away to await your responses.......Tgdrysix
phyllis_p:
I feel bad no one has answered you, so I'll give you my lame answer.
It shouldn't be very hard, but one time I had a similar experience to yours. I took it to a shop and paid the guy $65 to learn that I hadn't seated the RAM stick properly -- it needed to be pushed down into the slot further. (I'd thought it was fine because I could lock the little locks in place on the ends).
It would be nice if your problem is as simple as that, but since you've tried so many different combos it makes me worry that it's something else.
neriana:
First, 1 gig should be enough for Sims 2. It works for me. I suspect your problems running the game probably stem from something else.
However, my first question is: are you sure you got the right kind of memory? Check http://www.crucial.com/. My second is: what brand did you get?
My third is, what's with all the ellipses? :P
Emma:
Quote from: phyllisp on 2006 June 30, 19:27:11
I feel bad no one has answered you, so I'll give you my lame answer.
It shouldn't be very hard, but one time I had a similar experience to yours. I took it to a shop and paid the guy $65 to learn that I hadn't seated the RAM stick properly -- it needed to be pushed down into the slot further. (I'd thought it was fine because I could lock the little locks in place on the ends).
It would be nice if your problem is as simple as that, but since you've tried so many different combos it makes me worry that it's something else.
Yep, this is what happened to me too, and that was the solution. I was so worried about breaking something that I didn't push the sticks in fully enough.
Tgdrysix:
Well I got the guy who built this computer for me to see if he could figure out what the heck was going on....happy to report it did the same thing to him.....not that I am happy that I'm having issues just that he had them too which means I'm not crazy or doing something wrong....he will back to "work" on it some more, maybe one of these days I'll get to play my game for now I'm reading....got into the Jane Evanovich series.....up to #4....Thanks for all the responses.....Tgdrysix
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