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Thread ID: 68740 2006-05-09 07:25:00 Upgrading RAM borax (7078) Press F1
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453454 2006-05-10 10:22:00 I have a Compaq from the same sort of era, had two 256mb chips in it (ddr 222) & I have ditched them and put in two 512mb chips of ddr 400 & they work great. I have sold one of my 256mb chips.....the other one is available if you want it, just PM me for the trademe link :)

Cheers
KiwiMR2
KiwiMR2 (6464)
453455 2006-05-10 11:28:00 Vdata ram is rubbish. I had a bad stick of it just the other data. gibler (49)
453456 2006-05-10 11:42:00 OK guys an update,

I got another computer that runs at 333, it is an ASUS mobo spec'd as this. It currently has 2 x 256m DDR single sided RAM. I took these two sticks out and replaced them with the one double sided 512 DDR 333 and i got the same prob. PC starts to boot and then jumps to the Safe mode + other options menu.

Is there any reason double sided RAM doesn't work at the above spec and single sided does?? Im pretty sure that the stick is faulty.

ALso What is the going price for 512 333 DDR RAM. I paid $115 for it and i thought that was OK??

cheers
borax (7078)
453457 2006-05-11 04:29:00 Thanks to all the comments .

I took the RAM back to the shop today to claim it was faulty . They said OK we will try it first, so they stuck it in a PC and low and behold it booted up fine GRRR . They DID exchange it for another stick of identical RAM . Took that home, stuck it in and hey presto it worked fine !!! .

Panic over,

cheers
borax (7078)
453458 2006-05-11 05:47:00 Good to hear you had a happy outcome. :thumbs:

Interesting how the RAM worked in their machine and not yours but that does happen occasionally.

I hope you have or plan to let the shop know that it worked. :)
FoxyMX (5)
453459 2006-05-11 22:37:00 Yup, i let the shop know the new stick was fine and that there was prob. something weird wrong with the other stick. What they will do about it im not sure? borax (7078)
453460 2006-05-12 00:37:00 ALso What is the going price for 512 333 DDR RAM. I paid $115 for it and i thought that was OK??


The 512mb 400 DDR I got was $89 so $115 is ok.

Cheers
KiwiMR2
KiwiMR2 (6464)
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