[SGVLUG] Memory and External HD Questions

[Rob Wilcox]

What happens when you install a 400 MHZ 1GB 240 PIN memory card 

into a slot for a 533 MHz of the same?
Will it try to speed up the 400 to 533? 
Overheat the memory card? 
Or nothing at all and it's no problem?

I have 2x 1GB 400 MHZ 240 pins memory cards from 

an old computer and want to put them both into a computer
with a 533 MHz requirement for that computer. 

It's presently running 512 MB RAM which is too slow and since
I already have 2 GB of memory why not put it in 

and see what happens. That's why I'm asking 1st.


Also would a new 750 GB Hard Drive mess up 

a computer that originally had XP and that BIOS?
After I used this external HD I got a screen freeze 3 times 

and the next boot up didn't bootup. Nothing!!!
The HD is formatted for Win 7 and it's NTFS.

This EXT HD does work on my old iBook so now I think it might be computer related.


So can a HD mess up a computer so it won't even bootup???

I'll talk to some of you next Thursday 7-11 at Burger Continental.


Thanks,

Rob Wilcox
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