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| 1219672 | 2011-07-28 10:14:00 | Hi to the techies .... need some advice please :help: Got a friends Dell computer here with this mobo but V05 faylist.com It only has 256MB RAM .... Slow doesn't describe it !! Have 2 sticks of this RAM laying around and just want to make sure they're compatible before I end up frying something. www.legendmemory.com Thanks in advance Dave. |
SP8's (9836) | ||
| 1219673 | 2011-07-28 10:17:00 | Seems fine to me. RAM is DDR400 and the MOBO supports DDR400. Lets see what others have to say. | ronyville (10611) | ||
| 1219674 | 2011-07-28 10:50:00 | Should be fine. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1219675 | 2011-07-28 10:57:00 | +1 :pf1mobmini: |
icow (15313) | ||
| 1219676 | 2011-07-28 11:05:00 | Thank you peoples ... thought it would be OK but just wanted to make sure. | SP8's (9836) | ||
| 1219677 | 2011-07-28 11:36:00 | Dont count on it !! Last month I was at a persons place, they had a Dell Vista PC, with 512MB RAM :sleep I tried ( note tried) to upgrade the RAM, I ended up going through every make I could get my hands on,( kingston, Corsair, Adata, Vdata, Samsung, Transend and a couple of others) all the same rating, the bloody thing simply wouldn't play nice. :mad: I even removed the original RAM, tried with the new stuff alone, didn't work. It wasn't till last week, when I got hold of another Older Dell that the person wanted to get rid of and I used the RAM from that, then it actually worked - We did an exchange - second hand RAM = 1 Dozen. Now its running @ 2GB -- Much better. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1219678 | 2011-07-28 12:33:00 | Even if what happend to wainu happens to you I doubt it could damage any other components in the pc. :pf1mobmini: |
icow (15313) | ||
| 1219679 | 2011-07-28 12:36:00 | ^^i think that comp just had "Dellitice":lol: :pf1mobmini: |
icow (15313) | ||
| 1219680 | 2011-07-28 12:58:00 | Some are more fussy than others, I've had similar experance as wainui with a Lenovo laptop, my MacBook Pro doesn't like mixing ram speeds either, the stuff I put in was 1333 vs 1066. Just refused to boot, PC's ive tried in the past have just used the ram at a lower speed. | Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1219681 | 2011-07-28 21:21:00 | You might have a limit on the size of dimm you install, I have had Dell units here that will only take a max of 512Mb in each slot, of the generation in the OP! | SolMiester (139) | ||
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