23-10-2010, 14:14
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RAM Question
Hi,
The other day I was upgrading the RAM in some PC's. The supplied RAM would not work as additional RAM of as a single stick on it's own.
The error was a number of long beeps - nothing on the screen / no boot.
Tried another stick of the same RAM but still the same. Tried another machine - same error.
Here's a photo of the RAM - I can see the type is slightly different - what's the significance of this? Should they be able to co-exist as the supplier claims they will.
The blue stick is the original in the PC and the green is the additional stick.
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23-10-2010, 14:22
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Re: RAM Question
What does your board support? Some won't work.
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It might help to download the free 'Everest Home 150' system analyser from http://www.lavalys.com/products
which spells out everything to do with your machine and also gives advice on whether the memory is at optimum or not.
There is also 'Start - Run - type in msinfo32 - Press enter' and an internal analyser will pop up which gives similar tho' not so detailed info.
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23-10-2010, 14:45
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Re: RAM Question
It's a HP 3120MT PC - not sure of the board. Will have to go look it up...
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23-10-2010, 14:52
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Re: RAM Question
1 module is single rank, the other dual, so they are strictly speaking not identical.
http://www.kingston.com/ukroot/serve..._ranks_eng.pdf
It's possible your mobo will not support one of these types or doesn't like the mix.
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23-10-2010, 15:54
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Re: RAM Question
Is that what the 1R and 2R means then? What about A0 and B0?
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23-10-2010, 19:22
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Re: RAM Question
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Originally Posted by LSainsbury
Is that what the 1R and 2R means then? What about A0 and B0?
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That'll need a wiser head than mine. I recognised the 1R & 2R but I'm not enough of a tech to advise you on all and any implications.
Kymmy?
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23-10-2010, 19:55
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Re: RAM Question
If you can go to the corsair website and run the mem checker thing on there, and that will give you a list of ram that will work with the pc.
I have used it a few times to get ram for a laptop or 2 and it has worked fine all the time.
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23-10-2010, 21:22
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Re: RAM Question
It's the way the chipset on the dimms is arranged... They should work in individual bays but not as dual channel as they're not identicaly arranged.
A few motherboards though will even have problems with them in single channel mode though usually a bios upgrade will cure that..
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