Hi, I just bought a new ram 256mb 333 and tried to add it to my existing 256mb 266mhz. unfortunately I get the message that a system file of win xp is damaged. I though i would have had problems when I bought it, but not that the pc would not start! Can somebody tell me what I could do to solve this problem? Do I need to by a new ram of 512 mb and replace the two I own? thanks

No you have the same problem I had. Your PC is a older model like mine. The most you can do with it right know is 256RAM. If I'm not mistaken did you PC just do nothing when you added that RAM? If it did that basiclly means that your PC has so much RAM it does'nt know what to do with it. But there is hope there some way of breacking your max RAM on a PC I'll talk to a friend of mine about it for, you just hold tigh till then. KK

Can you give more specs on your system?

I have a 2000 amd xp, asus a7v mb, radeon 7500 and two hd 40mb. At the moment I am just using the new ram but it really bothers not using both. Especially cause the guy who sold it said I would have not had any prob. Let me know if there are possible solutions. Thanks. baz

Which A7V MB is it? If the ram sticks work individualy but not together, I would think there is something wrong with the motherboard. Any A7V series MB that supports the Athlon XP CPUs can handle 512+ MB of ram (in the neighborhood of 3 GB). Check the sticks out in someone else's computer, if they don't work there, it's the RAM, if they do work, it's your motherboard. Just a side note: It sounds like you bought the ram from someone 'off the street'. Personaly, I would only buy computer products from authorized dealers. Drop me another line if you get anymore info.