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amzter Wrote:so I bought a 2gb stick from Crucial after I used the program they give to scan my computer and it said to get it.

lol

amzter Wrote:A few weeks ago I noticed that my computer doesn't take more than 1gb sticks in each slot

So you ended up with 3GB.... Hmm, that makes a whole lot of sense...

amzter Wrote:They came today and I put them in (removed the 2gb and the 1gb PC2-5200 Samsung)

So that's 2GB of RAM you put in... "Downgraded to 3GB Of RAM"?

amzter Wrote:and guess what, MSN has not crashed *touchwood* I have had firefox with 10 tabs open, windows media player,MSN with 6 chats and one transfering a file, and transfering a 1gb file to my pendrive and only a slight lag in the system. Hopefully it all runs smooth now *touchwood*

All that was probably because you stuck a 2GB RAM stick into a motherboard which only supports 1GB.

(This post was last modified: 27/05/2009 04:58 PM by Assassinator.)

RAM stability issues are usually caused by wrong voltages/timings/speed.  Probably would've worked reasonably well if you tried tuning them a bit.

Also, have not heard of motherboards limiting the size of memory per RAM module (they often do have total addressable memory limits, but not per RAM module).

There have also been known issues with mixing different brands of RAM, on various motherboards and CPUs.

(This post was last modified: 27/05/2009 05:23 PM by ZiNgA BuRgA.)

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:RAM stability issues are usually caused by wrong voltages/timings/speed.  Probably would've worked reasonably well if you tried tuning them a bit.

good luck getting a dell to let you do that.

John_N Wrote:

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:RAM stability issues are usually caused by wrong voltages/timings/speed.  Probably would've worked reasonably well if you tried tuning them a bit.

good luck getting a dell to let you do that.

It's tuned in the motherboard (Dell doesn't make mobos).  Defaults are usually quite conservative so it should be fine if it wasn't changed >_>

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:

John_N Wrote:

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:RAM stability issues are usually caused by wrong voltages/timings/speed.  Probably would've worked reasonably well if you tried tuning them a bit.

good luck getting a dell to let you do that.

It's tuned in the motherboard (Dell doesn't make mobos).  Defaults are usually quite conservative so it should be fine if it wasn't changed >_>

no, dell actually lock the mobo settings in the bios, you can only edit the standard settings.

John_N Wrote:no, dell actually lock the mobo settings in the bios, you can only edit the standard settings.

Really?  How do they do that?  Does BIOS flashing get around it?

PSPkiller Wrote:They're Intel mobos with a Dell custom Bios. If you can somehow persuade a different Bios to install you're good to go... Risky though...

So I assume they somehow block BIOS flashing too?

(This post was last modified: 28/05/2009 05:06 AM by ZiNgA BuRgA.)