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| 78533 | 2002-09-11 10:53:00 | I have just installed 128 Meg of new Ram into my 1330Mhz PC to join 256 Mb apreviously installed. The PC already had 2 128 double sided Ram modules in it and the new one is single sided - all PC133 SDRam. However my PC still only shows 256Mb of Ram present Can anyone explain what is wrong and why it is not showing 384Mb Ram?? |
Muzz (1286) | ||
| 78534 | 2002-09-11 11:04:00 | Probably your M/b don't support it. RTFM. | SoniKalien (792) | ||
| 78535 | 2002-09-11 11:13:00 | The board (K7T Turbo (MS-6330) supports33Mb to 512Mb modules. Max size 1.5GB | Muzz (1286) | ||
| 78536 | 2002-09-11 11:15:00 | not so quick SoniKalien, some motherboards won't use all ram slots even tho the manafauctures say it will. take out one the old ram and see if the new one works. if it dosn't it may be faulty. if it stops working when you add ONE of the old ram sticks it may just be incompatiable. if it works ok with two sticks but not three then its likly to be motherboard glitch/problem. kept to two sticks only. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 78537 | 2002-09-11 23:59:00 | Hi..same happened to me recently...This a earlier message of mine... Manufacture type may be important if uprading beyond a certain size of Ram... Consider this: I upgraded recently from 64 MB to 192 MB (added 128 MB PC -133 SD RAM to the original 64 MB PC-100 SD RAM of which both modules were from different manufacturer's) to the the motherboard which supports 100 MHz. The PC recognized the new RAM as 192 MB and worked fine....But then I replaced the 64 Ram with 256 MB PC-133 to uprade to 380 MB total. The PC only recognized the 256 MB (as confirmed in My Computer properties)..even after switching the Ram's between the only two 168 pin slots. I rebooted heaps, read the manual about 10 times but still no go....The PC froze...and froze...and then it turned off... Gave up and went to the PC store and they fixed the problem by swapping the the two Rams with the same type of manufacture (I think they said they had to be both "double sided or faced") if upgrading beyond 256 Ram that filled one slot...This of course was not mentioned in my manual about upgrading beyond a certain limit. I guess most manual assume upgrades and hence instructions/diagrams from only 32 MB or 64 MB... |
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